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The Effect of Male Dominance in Armenia: Video Interview
Male dominance in the world and in Armenia continues to oppress and belittle a large part of humankind. In the most vulnerable position are women...Read More »
Activists Protesting Mandatory Pension System Detained by Yerevan Police
Another protest by pressure group Dem Em against the mandatory funded pensions system outside the RA Ministry of Finance building earlier today turned tense.Read More »
Elderly Man Tried to Self-Immolate Outside Ministry of Finance Building
At around 1 pm today, a 67-year-old man who identified himself to the press as Nikolai Aghabekyan attempted to set himself on fire outside the RA Ministry of Finance...Read More »
International Women’s Day March in Armenia Aims to Break Stereotypes
In Armenia, there are several initiatives and groups that deal with the protection of women's rights but there is no nationwide feminist movement...Read More »
Serzh Sargsyan to Oversee Fish Production in Lake Sevan: Newspaper
The Government of Armenia in its meeting yesterday decided to appoint Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's chief advisor Aram Gharibyan as the chair of...Read More »
VIDEO, PHOTOS: Villagers Protesting Construction of Hydroelectric Plant Block Road
Several hundred residents of Aragatsotn marz (province) protesting the construction of a hydroelectric plant near the villages of Ohanavan and Ushi today blocked the road.Read More »
PHOTOS, VIDEO: Protest in Yerevan, Armenia, Against Russian Intervention in Crimea
At a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Yerevan earlier today, 4 activists were detained: Tigran Parsilyan, Lala Aslikyan, Anton Ivchenko, and Eduard Mkrtchyan.Read More »
2 Constitutional Court Members to Leave Office. One Secretly Talked about Levon Ter-Petrossian’s 2008 Lawsuit
The powers of two members of Armenia's Constitutional Court will soon be revoked.Read More »
Letters from Prison: Confessions Obtained by Torture and Other Stories
In 2013, the Yerevan-based Helsinki Association for Human Rights received around three dozen letters from prisoners in Armenian prisons, the majority of which related to parole.Read More »
Residents of Armenian Village Protest Construction of Hydroelectric Plant
Karbi residents are against the construction. They argue that the a hydroelectric plant will consume so much water from the Aparan reservoir that...Read More »