Ashot Sargsyan, the co-author of EVN Report's White Paper "Volunteering in Armenia: Key Issues and Challenges" speaks about the potential of volunteerism as a community building tool, a force capable of bringing about change and sustaining developmental goals when the country is short of manpower. Sargsyan also speaks about the need to promote volunteerism and establish regulations that will protect the volunteer and acknowledge his/her input.

In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of November 22: Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is confronted by an Azerbaijani blogger during a meeting with the Armenian community in a church in Milan; details about what parliament discussed and voted on; Armenian refugees from Baku, finally to receive homes after a 30-year wait.

Tuomas Tuure is the Advocacy Officer of the Abilis Foundation, a Finnish organization working on development aid for people with disabilities. Tuure, who has worked on international disability rights for over a decade, spoke with EVN Report about self-advocacy for people with disabilities and the need for a holistic approach by all state institutions to ensure accessibility and inclusivity.

A special podcast series featuring ordinary people walking through the streets of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. In this final episode of the EVN Walks series, your host is Isabella Sargsyan.

Melissa Bilal, an ethnomusicologist and assistant professor at the American University of Armenia spoke to EVN Report about Armenian feminists from the 19th and 20th centuries in the Ottoman Empire. Bilal is an author, co-author and editor of a number of books and publications on Armenian feminist writers. Together with Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu of MIT, Bilal launched the Annual Feminist Armenian Studies Workshop and founded the Feminist Armenian Research Collective (FemArc).

A special podcast series featuring ordinary people walking through the streets of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. This week’s host is linguist Rafik Santrosyan.

Philanthropist and entrepreneur James Tufenkian speaks about his work in Armenia since the early days of independence, life after the Velvet Revolution, being active in a democracy and his new project in Armenia’s wine country.

A special podcast series featuring ordinary people walking through the streets of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. This week’s host is Roubina Margossian, the Managing Editor of EVN Report.

In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of November 1: the U.S. House of Representatives passes H.Res296, officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide; Venice Commission president expresses concerns over the conflict among the branches of Armenia’s government; Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu in Yerevan and more.

A special podcast series featuring ordinary people walking through the streets of Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. This week’s host is Arthur Ispirian, a musician and Director of Archives of Armenia’s Public Radio. Ispirian walks through the neighborhoods of his childhood, reminiscing and singing along the way.