Gender Thematic Group extended meeting was launched on April 5 aiming at presenting the key findings and recommendations of a qualitative assessment among refugees in Armenia on vulnerability and safety issues. The assessment was initiated by UNFPA.

YEREVAN, 17 April 2024 – Thirty years after the international community agreed on an ambitious programme to put people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights at the heart of global development, massive inequalities persist and millions of people, generally among the most disadvantaged population groups, remain excluded from the significant progress recorded overall across all world regions.

The assessment focuses on GBV trends and risks among refugee population in Armenia, following the influx of over 100,000 people from Karabakh to Armenia in September 2023. Through consulting 142 respondents (service providers, refuge women and refugee adolescent girls), it aims to map key needs of the GBV survivors and women and girls at risk of GBV, as well as the gaps in existing services necessary to address thes...