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Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building Resource Center in Yerevan
Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building Resource Center was opened in Yerevan with support of the UK NGO International Alert in May 2005. The Center aims at starting process of discussion on conflict and conflict...
Armenian Election Law Again Amended
The Armenian parliament voted on Thursday to increase the number of its seats contested on the party list basis and curtail President Robert Kocharian’s authority to directly appoint members of various-level commissions...
Jehovah’s Witnesses Unhappy With Armenian Alternative Service
Four young men affiliated with the Jehovah’s Witnesses were reported on Friday to have fled a medical institution in central Armenia, highlighting the controversial nature of an alternative to compulsory military...
Monitoring Of Democratic Reforms in Armenia
On May 18 in Yerevan the presentation of “Monitoring of Democratic Reforms in Armenia” interim report was held. The report was produced under a homonymous project of Yerevan Press Club, supported by Open Society...
We Are Anti-European by Our Mentality
“Armenia has cheated the COE”, this was the opinion of the Vardan Poghosyan, representative of the Democratic Reforms Monitoring Group. According to him, in the coalition draft constitution which has been observed by...
Car Service Instead of 17-Year-Old Parks
«If they want to chop down the trees, let them do so, but please leave one so that we can come and hang ourselves here after the trees have been chopped down», said the residents of the Yerevan Zaqaria Sarkavag street...
Armenian Parliament To Amend Controversial Law On Rallies
The National Assembly is expected to pass on Thursday amendments to Armenia's controversial law on rallies which pan-European human rights organizations say infringes on its citizens' constitutionally guaranteed freedom...
Open Doors in the Council of Europe Information Office in Armenia on the Occasion of the Warsaw Summit
The third Council of Europe Summit of Heads of State and Government of 46 European democracies will be held on 16 and 17 May 2005 in Warsaw. On this occasion the Council of Europe Information Office in Armenia...
Procession under Slogan "Down With Sects!" Held In Yerevan
A procession under the slogan "Down with Sects!" and "Beware of 'Jehovah's Witnesses'!" was held by the United Nation party Sunday. "We came here to say 'no' to the US puppet sects destroying our national values and...
Round Table devoted to the campaign for signing and ratification of the Protocol to UN Convention against torture
Civil Society Institute in cooperation with the Penal Reform International has started a campaign for signing and ratification of the Optional Protocol to UN Convention against torture in Armenia. On May 16 at the AUA...