ANNOUNCEMENTS

Since the adoption on 9 November 2020 of the ceasefire statement by the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia, the Azerbaijani aggression along the border with Armenia has not ceased. Azerbaijani armed forces have illegally invaded into and positioned themselves inside Armenia’s sovereign territory, regularly shooting at several Armenian towns and villages, disturbing the inhabitants’ peace and daily lives, posing a real threat to the life and health of the civilian population, inflicting harm to their property, attempting to illegally detain civilians, threatening with firearms, stealing livestock, and committing a number of other criminal acts.

The secrecy surrounding foreign policy processes has often created challenges for the Republic of Armenia and its statehood. This vicious practice must be put to an end; henceforth, any Government or political party must not bypass the people and accept momentous and irreversible decisions based on narrow personal or group interests. Regarding the delimitation and demarcation of borders, these can only be considered legal through the inclusion of United Nations and OSCE representatives, in accordance with legal processes enshrined in international legal norms.

Since May 12, 2021, the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan have intruded into the internationally recognized territory of the Republic of Armenia in violation of the state border and the UN Charter, infiltrating as deep as 3.5 kilometers in some sections. The fact that the mentioned territory is an indisputable part of the Republic of Armenia is confirmed not only by the information published by the official Yerevan, but also by the evidence-based publications of independent media.

We condemn the pre-election persecutions of political opponents and their supporters; violations during early voting and election day as reported by citizen observers, including arbitrary detention of observers and obstruction of their work; falsification of results; the post-election arrests, as well as disproportionate and unjustified use of force by the police that cost at least one life and left several people injured.

Peace Dialogue NGO, in collaboration with its partners Une Terre Culturelle association and German-French Youth Office, launches the initiative entitled Journalism without Borders which is aimed at the promotion of youth participation in social-political decision-making process through applying democratic instruments.

As a result of the election held on 1 July 2020, by a simple majority of Coordination Council members’ votes, the representatives of the aforementioned seven organizations were declared to be involved in the Coordination Council’s activities of the implementation of the Action Plan 2020-2022 deriving from the National Strategy on Human Rights Protection.

Organization: Peace Dialogue NGO
Project Title: Development of civil society potential for the effective monitoring of the activities of the RA Ministry of Defense in the scope of the Action Plan deriving from the National Strategy on Human Rights Protection
Position: Expert/Analyst
Start: 1 July 2020
Duration: 4 months
Work hours: Flexible
Type of payment: Negotiable
Application Deadline 20 June 2020