Noyemberyan Residents to Keep Fighting for Final Termination of Mining Operations
Noyemberyan deputy village head Khachik Gishyan, meanwhile, believes that the region would benefit more from developing tourism and agriculture rather than the...
Demonstrators in Yerevan Demand Fair and Unbiased Investigation Into Hate Crimes
The protest action was spurred by the two most recent hate crimes committed in Yerevan over the past few months: on February 27, a transgender woman was...
ECHR Communicates Questions to Armenian Government Regarding Health of Sasna Tsrer Member
- Because of the indifference of the authorities towards his poor state of health he has found himself twice in a critical condition where his life was in danger. More than once...
Armenia Lacks Groups Focusing Specifically on Issues of Children With Down Syndrome
Harutyun Balasanyan, director of the Nor Kharberd Specialized Children's Home, stated in turn: “Parents’ initial response [to a child born with Down syndrome] is to leave...
Young Etchmiadzin Man Electrocuted at Work; Family Afraid to Reveal Employer
Murad Ghazaryan, a sexton at the St. Gayane Church in Etchmiadzin, used to work as a handyman in one of the city’s greenhouses. On June 30, 2017, according to the...
Yerevan Woman Unable to Buy Medications Even With Doctor’s Prescription
When contacted by Epress.am for comment, Health Ministry spokesperson Anahit Haytayan said she had been informed about the woman’s Facebook post: “I’ve had no...
Armenian Health Ministry’s Decision on Prescription Drugs Illegal: Press
According to the paper, the government has yet to adopt a corresponding decision, while the Health Ministry has already begun obliging doctors and pharmacies not to issue or sell...
Armenian Environmentalists Warn Against ‘German Double Standards’
The German Cronimet Holding GmbH has been exploiting a mine in the Armenian town of Kajaran and a tailing dam in the Artsvanik village since 2004. Meanwhile, its subsidiary...
Sasna Tsrer Members Needs Treatment in Civilian Hospital After Hunger Strike, Lawyer Says
- The doctors at the penitentiary give no noteworthy assessments of his health state. In addition, the Convicts’ Hospital does not have the technical equipment to identify a ...
Locals Talk About Consequences of Teghut Mine Exploitation
- They have given the conscripts bank cards to make it easier for us to transfer them money for socks and clothes… Military service was not so terrible in the past...
Yerevan Pharmacists Concerned Over Health Ministry Decision to Extend List of Prescription Only Medications
She added that chronic patients have worked out what medications best suit their needs and always buy the same drugs, without having to go to a doctor every single time and...
Women In Armenia Have No Power to Persuade Their Partners to Undergo HIV Testing
Out of the 214 female respondents, only 0.1% know about post-exposure prophylaxis. The majority of women do not know where in their province ...