ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mapping and Addressing the Needs of Conflict-Affected Groups in Armenia: Hopes, Fears, and Expectations in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Process
On July 26, 2024, Peace Dialogue NGO will host a multi-stakeholder discussion titled “Mapping and Addressing the Needs of Conflict-Affected Groups in Armenia: Hopes, Fears, and Expectations in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Process.”
Joint Statement by the EAP CSF Steering Committee and EAP CSF National Platforms on the Second Anniversary of Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
Peace Dialogue Joins Coordinating Council of the Action Plan for 2023-2025 Deriving from Armenia’s National Strategy of Human Rights Protection
Armenian NGOs Appeal Again to the UN Security Council
Dear Representatives of States – Members of the UN Security Council, Following our previous communications from 26 May and 28 July, 2023, with a view of the upcoming session of the UN Security Council to be convened upon the request of the Armenian government we, representatives of the active civil society organizations in Armenia, appeal again to the States – Members of the UN Security Council to take the responsibility to protect the Armenian people in Nagorno-Karabakh from genocide and ethnic cleansing organized by Azerbaijan.
Armenian CSOs request urgent OHCHR mission to Nagorno Karabakh and Armenia
With the initiative of the Democracy Development Foundation (DDF), about 20 civil society organizations of Armenia submitted a joint letter to the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights Volker Türk, calling on the Commissioner’s office to take immediate measures regarding the human rights emergency in Nagorno Karabakh.
The Announcement of Armenia’s Civil Society Organizations in Support of Georgian Civil Society and Democratic Processes in the Region
On March 7 of this year, a large-scale peaceful protest action was held in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, against the adoption of the so-called “Russian law”. Despite the negative assessment of that law by a number of international organizations and the civil society of the neighboring country, the Georgian parliament, nevertheless, adopted the controversial law “on foreign agents” on first reading.
Statement on the Killing of Three Servicemen of the Police of Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces
We, the following civil society organizations of Armenia, request the international partners to strongly and unequivocally condemn the killing of three servicemen of the Passport and Visa Department of the Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on 5 March 2023.
Armenian civil society organizations request OHCHR’s intervention in relation to ongoing aggression by Azerbaijan
A group of Armenian civil society organizations, led by Open Society Foundations – Armenia, submitted a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk calling for OHCHR’s intervention in relation to the ongoing aggression by Azerbaijan against Armenia.
“Specifically, we request the deployment of a fact-finding mission to investigate violations of human rights and humanitarian law during the two-day attack Azerbaijan launched against Armenia, in the sovereign territory of the latter. In addition, we request a longer-term monitoring mission along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a preventive measure for further use of force and human rights abuses”, says the letter, signed by Armenian NGOs.
Job Vacancy Announcement
Peace Dialogue NGO is looking for an English Translator and Interpreter. Previous working experience is required.
We Denounce the RA Government’s Short-Sighted and Irresponsible Steps։ Joint Statement
Protests that erupted in Kazakhstan on 2 January 2022 against the spike in liquefied gas price spread across the country and turned into a national movement against the dictatorial regime. According to official information, more than 300 people have been injured, and several dozen police officers and protesters have died. Hundreds of protesters have been detained without basic human rights guarantees. A state of emergency was declared in a number of towns of the country and State of Alma-Ata.
