ARMENIAN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION TO PARTICIPATE IN UN PANEL SESSION
PanARMENIAN.Net
February 15, 2012 – 16:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – The United Nations Commission on the Status of
Women (CSW) will hold its 56th session this year on the theme “The
Empowerment of Rural Women and Their Role in Poverty and Hunger
Eradication: Development and Current Challenges.”
According to The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, the Armenian International
Women’s Association will participate in the meeting by sponsoring
a workshop on the opening day of the session on February 27. CSW
sessions attract hundreds of women annually to New York from all
parts of the world.
The AIWA workshop will focus on issues relating to the position of
rural women in Armenia, enhanced by perspectives gained from programs
developed in other nations.
Illustrated presentations by two professionals experienced in working
with rural women will evaluate various strategies used to address
the empowerment of women.
The first presenter, Sara Anjargolian, is a photographer and attorney
in Los Angeles who has documented the lives of the Zulu people in South
Africa, the plight of the extreme poor in Armenia, and the status of
refugees living along the border with Azerbaijan in Armenia’s rural
areas. She will speak about the power of images to inform and inspire
social change and about her personal transformation while spending
time with these groups of people.
Anjargolian will also address the benefits of partnering documentary
photographers and media professionals with aid organizations, focusing
specifically on how narrative imagery can empower the individuals
depicted and help contextualize their unique challenges and triumphs.
The second presenter, Ana Cristina Schirinian, divides her time between
Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Yerevan, Armenia (and often places in
between). An attorney by profession, she is special assistant to
Eduardo Eurnekian, head of Corporacion America, an Argentine holding
company active in a number of diverse industries, including airport
construction and management.
As president of Tierras de Armenia, an agricultural project in Armavir
province that specializes in offering the latest technology for growing
fruit, and as executive director of Fruitful Armenia, Shirinian is
familiar with the life of rural women in Armenia. She will compare
her observations regarding agricultural conditions in Armenia with
her experiences stemming from similar programs in Argentina, Morocco
and Italy.
From: A. Papazian