On March 9, the Permanent Missions of Armenia and Cyprus to the United Nations, in partnership with the Armenian Relief Society (ARS), University of the Highlands and Islands, and Diaspora African Women’s Network (DAWN), held a side event on the margins of UN CSW 59th session to discuss the role of Diaspora women, the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Armenia reports.
The participants discussed how Homeland and Diaspora can influence and reinforce each other and build synergies to promote women empowerment and gender equality, enabling women to continue playing a crucial role in preserving culture and traditions in post-2015.
Permanent Representative of Armenia to United Nations Zohrab Mnatsakanyan noted that Diaspora has a "consolidating power for a revival of the sense of identity, which promotes minority communities’ integration in host societies, contributing to and benefiting from these societies and strengthening the link with ancestral homeland", adding that this topic deserves a due attention also in the broader context of women empowerment and the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Armenians of Diaspora in their speeches reflected on the struggle and courage of their families, mothers and forefathers, who survived the Armenian Genocide.