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Against Xenophobia with Mass Media
Today the two-day conference organized by the South Caucasian countries, Russia and UNESCO with the theme «For the sake of tolerance, against discrimination and xenophobia in the context of combat against international...
Armenian Civic Groups Slam Election Law Reform
Armenia’s leading non-governmental organizations advocating political reform described on Tuesday the latest amendments to the Armenian electoral legislation as a sham, saying that the authorities will continue to fully...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...