On November 3–5, 2025, the Human Rights House Yerevan organized a three-day workshop titled “Strengthening the Resilience of Armenian Civil Society Ahead of the 2026 Parliamentary Elections” for human rights defenders and representatives of broader civil society.
Within the framework of the workshop, the organization’s partners — Baia Pataraia, head of the Sapari NGO (Human Rights House Tbilisi), and Maciej Nowicki, Chair of the Board of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Poland), discussed strategies for countering repression and propaganda in the context of elections, tools for strategic planning of civic resistance and voter mobilization, and shared successful and unsuccessful experiences of civil society in Georgia and Poland.
Through an interactive format, participants identified and analyzed factors that contribute to strengthening public engagement in electoral processes as well as those that lead to weaker organization and reduced impact. The discussions aimed to address civil society’s concerns in the pre-electoral, electoral and post-electoral contexts.
