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Armenia Worries Over Groundwater Depletion
Worried residents of the Ararat valley, which sits above 60 per cent of the country's 2.4 billion m3 of underground water reserves, say the farms could cause pollution of groundwater and deprive agricultural land of...
Cooperation Agreement on Ensuring Rights of Ethnic Minorities to be Signed between the Governments of Armenia and Belarus
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, ARMENPRESS: Cooperation agreement on ensuring rights of ethnic minorities will be signed between the governments of Armenia and Belarus. Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan said today at the session...
Armenia ranked 101 in Press Freedom Index list
Armenia is ranked 101 (out of 178 states) in the 2010 Press Freedom Index list issued by Reporters Without Borders organization. In 2009 Armenia occupied 111 line. Georgia is ranked 99, whereas Azerbaijan only 152...
Eight human rights NGOs addressed a letter to international organizations
"We the undersigned Armenian civil society organisations express our deep disappointment and bewilderment concerning the one more delay of the visit of the PACE Monitoring Committee's co-rapporteurs in regard of Armenia...
UN Officials Highlight Torture Claims In Armenia
Ending a fact-finding visit to Armenia, officials from the United Nations Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that they heard numerous allegations of police torture from individuals kept in local prisons. The...
Opposition Rally In Key Yerevan Square Banned
Municipal authorities in Yerevan have banned the opposition Armenian National Congress (HAK) from rallying supporters in a key Yerevan square on September 17 and offered it to stage the demonstration elsewhere in the...
Human rights defender Arshaluys Hakobyan passes away
Human rights defender and member of the Armenian Helsinki Association passed away on August 11. Head of the Helsinki Association Michael Danielyan told Tert.am that the reason of Arshalyus Hakobyan's death is not known...
Police Use Force to Dispell Protesters at VTB Bank
Reports from the scene indicate that police have used force to remove about 20 demonstrators who had blocked the entrance to the VTB Bank on Nalbandyan Street. Some of the activists, protesting the fact that the bank...
The results of a study on disciplinary isolators and disciplinary battalion under the Ministry of Defence were presented
The results of a study on the conditions of persons deprived of their liberty in disciplinary cells and disciplinary battalion of the Armenian Defence Ministry were the focus of a discussion organized in Yerevan on...
Ad-hoc Public Report of Armenian Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan on “Right to Freedom of Expression in the Republic of Armenia”
According to the article 17.2 of the RA Law «On the Human Rights Defender» on July 7, 2010 the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia presents an Ad-hoc Public Report on the «Right to Freedom of Expression in...