International Women's Day: Red card to forced prostitution

07 March 2006

With a view to tomorrow's International Women's Day, Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly President René van der Linden today urged the
organisation's member states as well as the European Community to adhere to the
Convention on action against trafficking in human beings. "Whilst fully
supporting all current initiatives for a 'red card to forced prostitution', I
hope we can avoid yellow cards for our member states for not having taken the
necessary legal action to prevent trafficking in general, and forced
prostitution in particular," he said...


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Three Residents of Byuzand Street Have Gone on Termless Sit-in
Hunger-Strike

07 March 2006

Beginning from March 7-th three residents of 15
Byuzand street – Smbat Melkonyan, Nune Varduni and Susanna Poghosyan have gone
on termless sit-in hunger-strike. And all the other dwellers of Byuzand street
will take part only in the sit-in strike because of health problems...


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New Ombudsman Picks Up Opposition Appeal To Constitutional Court

03 March 2006

Armenia’s new human rights ombudsman, Armen Harutiunian, said on Friday that he
has asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the legality of the controversial
house demolitions in downtown Yerevan, essentially endorsing arguments made by
opposition lawmakers...


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Law-Enforcement Officials Cleared Of Human Trafficking

01 March 2006

Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian presented and endorsed on Wednesday the
findings of an official inquiry which dismiss media reports implicating Armenian
law-enforcement officials in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation
abroad...


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Point of View

Reluctant Politicization: NGOs under Vigorous Pressure from the Authorities

March 06, 2006

Manvel Sargsyan, Expert of Political Issues

Until now, NGOs were not discussed as political factors not because the
factor has not existed but because NGOs have not had such an issue in front of
themselves...


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