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The Journalist Is Brutally Bitten
Brutality against journalists continues after editor-coordinator of the Armenia Today electronic newspaper Argishti Kiviryan was severely beaten early in the morning today in front of the entrance of his house located...
First municipal elections in Yerevan: pre-electoral mission of the Council of Europe Congress
In view of the first elections for the City Council in Yerevan, which will be held on 31 May 2009, a 3-member delegation of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe will visit the Armenian...
PACE reminds European governments of their obligation to protect human rights defenders
Strasbourg, 28.04.2009 - The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) today reminded European governments of their “obligation and responsibility” to protect human rights defenders and their work “by...
Dashnaktsutyun Announced About Leaving Coalition
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutyun party officially announces that the party leaves the coalition, Armen Roustamyan said in a press conference in the ARF Office. According to him the party has declined...
Obama Avoids ‘G-Word’ In Armenian Remembrance Message
Backpedaling on one of his election campaign pledges, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday refrained from terming the 1915 massacres of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey a genocide as he commemorated “one of the great...
PACE Signals Another Reprieve For Yerevan
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) appears to have decided not to discuss the political situation in Armenia and the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Yerevan authorities at its upcoming...
Statement Of Journalistic Organizations On The Package Of Draft Amendments To Broadcast Legislation
April 9, 2009 The agenda of the RA National Assembly includes the second hearing of the package of draft amendments to the RA Laws “On Television and Radio”, “Regulations of the National Commission on Television and...
25 students of RA Police Academy finished the Human Rights Course
On April 7, 2009 at RA Police Academy closing ceremony of “Human rights: torture prevention and right to freedom” training took place. The training started on February 24, 2009 with the initiation of “Civil Society...
Violence Against Women: The Council Of Europe Takes Its Campaign To A New Level
Statement by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe “Today, the Council of Europe began the work on a new Europe-wide convention on action against violence against women. Over the past two years, we...
Seven Years Since "A1+" Was Deprived of Airtime
April 2 marks seven years since "A1+" was deprived of airtime. Since then, all television networks have "feared" the fate of "A1+" like the Damocles' sword. "For the current authorities, the issue of prohibiting...