Topic: United Nations
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[...]
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[...]
YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — Armenia will host the next United Nations biodiversity conference in 2026, according to the country’s environment minister. Hakob Simidyan said on Friday, November 1,[...]
PARIS (News.am) — On July 31, news.am published the following interview with Philippe Raffi Kalfayan, PhD in International Law, Associate-Researcher at Paris Pantheon-Assas University, Legal Counsel to Governments. He is[...]
By Arshaluys Barseghyan An Azerbaijani government-linked initiative organized a conference against European colonialism at the UN headquarters in New York. The Baku Initiative Group, which appears to have links to[...]
GENEVA — On June 13, the international legal team for Ruben Vardanyan, a political prisoner detained in Azerbaijan, filed an urgent appeal with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, imploring[...]
YEREVAN (Armenpress) — Armenia on June 7 elected as a Member of the UN Economic and Social Council for 2025-2027, receiving 148 votes in the voting held at the UN headquarters[...]
By Luis Moreno Ocampo December 2023 marked the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention’s adoption. And yet, here we stand, at a moment when, despite constant discussion of the term,[...]
YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — Ivana Živković, UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) on May[...]