Topic: Azerbaijan Human Rights Violations
YEREVAN (Armenian Report) — A new investigation by the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has revealed a serious conflict of interest inside the United Nations[...]
WASHINGTON — The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) welcomed the introduction of a bipartisan bill spearheaded by Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), that calls for review[...]
LONDON — The United Kingdom’s National Contact Point (NCP), a major corporate social responsibility agency and watchdog, announced an official examination of UK-based architectural firm Chapman Taylor for violations of[...]
By Magerram Zeynalov & Grigor Atanesian BAKU (BBC News) — When a young peace activist was jailed for 15 years for high treason in Azerbaijan last month, his friends’ anger[...]
By Aytan Farhadova The Baku Grave Crimes Court has sentenced Azerbaijani researcher, peace activist, and OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov to 15 years in prison on charges of treason. The[...]
WASHINGTON — Those of us in the diaspora are seeing increasingly worrisome pictures from the trials of Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenian political prisoners in Azerbaijan. The trials, near-universally acknowledged as shams,[...]
GENEVA (Panorama.am) — On Monday, March 3, at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for the immediate release[...]
YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Armenia on November 13 after visiting neighboring Georgia. Thunberg in the past week has taken actions and spoken out[...]
By Greta Thunberg During rapidly escalating climate and humanitarian crises, another authoritarian petrostate with no respect for human rights is hosting COP29 — the UN’s latest annual climate summit that[...]
By Luca Amin LONDON (Democracy for Sale) — A lobbying firm with close links to senior British politicians and the oil industry is being paid $4.7 million to help Azerbaijan’s[...]