March, 2012

• 12 March

  

  Fire at Istanbul Building Site Camp Kills 14

  A fire engulfed a tent used as a dormitory for workers at an Istanbul construction site late Sunday, killing 14 people, a local official said.
• 9 March

  

  VIDEO: Women Occupy Kiosks in Mashtots Park

  On Mar. 8, a group of female activists broke through the barricades surrounding kiosks in a downtown Yerevan park and occupied one...
• 8 March

  

  PHOTOS: Women Occupy Mashtots Park (Live Blog)

  Women environmental and civic activists less than an hour ago occupied the partially constructed kiosks in Mashtots Park to mark International Women's Day.
• 8 March

  

  Mother of Killed Soldier Again Receives Court Summons Too Late

  Lena Sarukhanyan, mother of Torgom Sarukhanyan, 22, who died of gunshot wounds in a Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh military unit on Feb. 12...
• 8 March

  

  Estonia Teachers Strike Biggest Since WWII

  Teachers in Estonia have staged what commentators are calling the biggest strike in the country since World War Two. They are calling for a 20 percent pay rise...
• 8 March

  

  Hillary Clinton Continues to Characterize Armenian Genocide as Conflict Instead of Crime: ANCA

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refrained from again mischaracterizing the Armenian Genocide as a “matter for historical debate,” but stopped far short of...
• 8 March

  

  The Forgotten Faces of Armenian Women in History

  Abgar [whose real name was Anahit Aghabek (Aghabekyan)] was born in 1859 in Burma of Armenian parents from Persia (Iran) and grew up in India.
• 8 March

  MP Candidate’s Foundation Offers Women Free Hair Dry on March 8: Hraparak

  The Artak Sargsyan Charitable Foundation belonging to the owner of the same name of major supermarket chain SAS reached an agreement with...
• 7 March

  

  No Need to Focus on Women Since All Human Rights are Violated in Armenia: Female MP

  "Human rights, of course, are not protected, but women are more vulnerable in our society. But those women who leave their kitchens and...
• 7 March

  

  Armenia’s Public Broadcaster Explains Why It Withdrew from Eurovision

  Armenia's Public TV Company expresses regret that it is unable to send a delegation to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to participate in...