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The Present Education System of Armenia Is In a Sad State
”The present education system of Armenia is in a sad state”. 81% of experts and 47% of citizens who partook in the survey conducted by Armenian Centre for National and International Studies /ACNIS/ concluded. The...
10 Jehovah's Witnesses Go On Alternative Service
10 Jehovah's Witnesses went on alternative service as sanitarians in the autumn, says the chief of the PR department of Armenia's labor ministry Hasmik Khachatryan. 7 of them will serve in a boarding school in Vardenis...
Presentation of the Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law in Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan (June – December 2004)
A. The author and MSF In 1999, Médecins Sans Frontières published the Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law This dictionary, initially published in French has since been translated into English, Spanish, Turkish,...
Human Rights and Environment
On December 10, on the International Day of Human Rights in Yerevan the ceremony of awarding monetary prizes to the winners of competition “Human Rights and Environment” was held. The competition was administrated by...
Citizenship: A Refugee - The Team Reporting Project of Armenian TV Journalists
n November 30 - December 11 in Armenia a team reporting project on refugees was implemented by London-based Media Diversity Institute jointly with Yerevan Press Club and Internews Armenia. The event was held under MDI...
Monitoring Of Prisons
The human rights organization "Center for Civil Undertakings" founded in October 2002 has been monitoring the prison of Shushi and the remand prisonsince April 2003. The center sends reports on the monitoring to the...
FOI Awards Winners Announced
On December 10, 2004 the Freedom of Information Civic Initiative (Freedom of Information Center, Civil Society Institute and Media Law Institute) announced FOI Awards winners of 2004. The following nominations were...
Statement of Transparency International
On 9-10 December, 2003, at a ceremony in Merida, Mexico, the UN Convention against Corruption was signed by the first member-states. Since then 113 countries have signed the Convention. To mark the event, the UN General...
Azeri Media Publishes Disinformation
Armenian ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan came up with a statement on Wednesday denying the allegation made by some Azeri media outlets after the conference of the CIS and the CE member countries’ ombudsmen held recently in...
Armenian Court Gives Green Light For Iraq Deployment
Armenia’s Constitutional Court gave the government the green light on Wednesday to send Armenian non-combat troops to Iraq, a deployment which Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian claimed will spare the country...