Call for Action: Decisive Measures Needed for Preventing Ethnic Cleansing or Worse in Nagorno-Karabakh

01.12.2022
In September 2020, the South Caucasus has plunged into a major security crisis due to the large-scale military attack launched by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh. The conflict, which is now known as the 44-Day War, has resulted in many deaths, the depopulation of multiple towns and villages, and an alarming humanitarian crisis on the ground. Two years have passed since the war, but major security issues have not been resolved yet, the fundamental rights of many people remain violated, and there is a significant and growing threat of new clashes and atrocities.

Statement on the election of a judge investigating corruption crimes by the Supreme Judicial Council

24.11.2022
The undersigned civil society organizations consider the election of Judge Mnatsakan Martirosyan among the judges investigating corruption crimes by the Supreme Judicial Council as highly unacceptable and condemnable. Mnatsakan Martirosyan is known as a judge involved in high-profile political cases. On his court decisions a number of political prisoners were convicted.

Armenian Civil Society Appeal to Human Rights Institutions

06.10.2022
Just after midnight on September 13, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack and invasion of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia shelling civilians, civilian infrastructure, and other civilian objects along Armenia’s eastern border and deeper beyond the frontline.

Call for Urgent Action in Response to the Azerbaijani aggression against Armenia

13.09.2022
On September 13, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive operation across the whole Eastern and South-Eastern border with Armenia, striking military targets and civilian infrastructure alike, in gross violation of Geneva Conventions. As of 12:00 pm, Armenia has reported of 49 casualties; this number will continue to grow. Azerbaijan unleashed this new attack on Armenia’s sovereign territory less than two weeks after the meeting between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Brussels brokered by the European Commission.

Statement on 2022-2026 Strategy of the RA Judicial and Legal Reforms and its Action Plan

02.08.2022
During the Government’s session of 21․07․2022, 2022-2026 Strategy of the RA Judicial and Legal Reforms and its Action Plan were adopted. The aforementioned Strategy and its Action Plan do not reflect the position and recommendations of civil society.

Armenian civil society organizations submitted report to the UN Committee on racial discrimination against Armenians by Azerbaijan

19.07.2022
A group of civil society organizations of Armenia, Open Society Foundations - Armenia, "Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center" NGO, "Protection of Rights Without Borders" NGO, Law Development and Protection Foundation and Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly -Vanadzor submitted an alternative report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on violations of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by Azerbaijan.