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Armenian Newspapers Threatened by Libel Suits with Sky-high Damages Awards
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about all the libel actions being brought against Armenian newspapers and the disproportionate damages being demanded, which threaten their survival and create a climate that...
Human Rights Defender Started to Speak and Act (video)
The Human Rights Defender announced about his intention to hold  a forum on May 1 on the freedom of speech where he will offer a mechanism against inappropriate use of law by judges after decriminalization of articles...
Raffi Hovannisian’s Message
  A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins. Benjamin Franklin    The complete...
2010 Country Reports on Human Rights
On the 8th of April, 2011, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour of the U.S. Department of State issued 2010 Country reports on Human Rights practices. The main issues touched in the report connected with Armenia...
2011 Front Line Annual Report on human rights defender
On 25th of March, 2011, Front Line launched its second Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders, which highlights global trends and developments in the situation of human rights defenders in 2010 and analyses the...
Statement of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs
VIENNA, 24 March 2011 - The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group (Ambassadors Bernard Fassier of France, Robert Bradtke of the United States, and Igor Popov of the Russian Federation) were in Vienna on March 23-24, where...
OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe and EU Fundamental Rights Agency make joint statement on International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
STRASBOURG, VIENNA, WARSAW, 21 March 2011 - In a joint statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Nils Muiznieks, Chair of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism...
OSCE Trains Officials to Detect and Prevent Smuggling of Hazardous Waste
KYIV, 24 March 2011 - Detecting and preventing the illegal cross-border trafficking of waste and other hazardous waste in Eastern Europe were the focus of a four-day train-the-trainers workshop that ended in Kyiv today...
Armenia and Georgia Signed Memorandum of Cooperation in Penitentiary System
Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance of Georgia and Law Institute of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia signed a cooperation memorandum. Georgian Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance...
An Armenian soldier was killed: Defense Army Press Release
On March 17, at 17:30 a Defense Army term soldier Aharon A. Hayrapetyan (born in 1991) was injured by the rival on one of the army defensive positions located in the eastern direction of the Karabakh-Azerbaijan border (...