The Police Takes Responsibility to Respect Human Rights

21 March 2006

“The law foresees punishment for the police in cases of torture and violation of
human rights as well as for the cruel attitude and the insulting cases of human
dignity,” this is a quotation from the bill concerning the changes and additions
on the RA “Law on the Police.”...


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The Issue of The Bjuzand Dwellers Was Cancelled For 2 Weeks

21 March 2006

In today’s CC session Armen Harutunyan could not persuade the Government and the
Chairman that the constructing projects in Kentron district were realized
against the provisions of the RA Constitution and the international norms...


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Government Offers New Premises to Former TV Station’s Staff

17 March 2006

Bailiffs on Friday temporary postponed the eviction of an embattled former TV
station from its current location in a state-owned building after the government
offered new premises to the media’s founder company.

The Government-affiliated State Property Management Department suggested that A1
Plus, an independent TV channel forced off the air four years ago and now a
popular website resource, move to premises more than twice as small as the
media’s current editorial rooms in Yerevan’s Grigor Lusavorich Street...


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Religious Minorities Find That Conscience and Duty Continue to Clash in
Dispute over Alternative to Military Service

17 March 2006

A Molokan man has been in custody for seven months for refusing to take part in
alternative national service because he regards it as a form of military
engagement...


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Public Service, Private Gain: Report finds that corruption remains a daily
fact of life in Armenia

17 March 2006

Corruption remains a major problem in Armenia despite the adoption of a number
of anti-corruption measures, according to a report by GRECO, the Council of
Europe Group of States against Corruption...


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 CE Representative Says Public Has the Right to Know Ombudsman’s
Report

16 March 2006

A Council of Europe official advocates the right of Armenia’s former
ombudsperson to make an annual report on her activities in a due form...


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RA First Ombudsman: In 2005 the Right of the RA Citizens of Effective
Defense Were Violated Most

16 March 2006

During the year 2005 the right of the RA citizens of effective defense was
violated most. The violations refer not only the legal protection in the court.
The RA First Ombudsman announced during today's seminar "Gains and losses of the
RA citizens in 2005" organized by the non-governmental organization "National
Civic Initiative"...


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Armenian Cemetery in Old Jugha Turned Into Firing Ground by Azeris

16 March 2006

After more than 3500 khachkars (cross-stones) were completely destroyed in the
ancient Armenian cemetery in Old Jugha in December 2005, the number of which
formerly reached 10 thousand, according to eye-witnesses, in early March this
year the Azeri servicemen turned this territory into a firing ground.

Informing about this, RA Foreign Ministry Press Service also spread photos
making it evident that the cemetery in Old Jugha doesn't exist any longer, just
like the Pombloz Church, St Saviour Church and Red Church.


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Point of view

Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus: The EU’s Role

20 March 2006 

International Crisis Group

Europe Report N°173


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Find
full text of the report

Announcements

The Project "Development of e-Societies in South Caucasus" Announces the Opening
of Three Individual Trainee Positions...

21 March 2006



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