Category: Community

On a summer afternoon in June, a group of friends gathered in Southern California to learn something new: how to prepare sourdough. The workshop, hosted by Peggy Ishkhanian, was also an opportunity to come together for a cause close to her heart. By the end of the gathering, Peggy and her friends had raised $4,000

When residents of Berdzor were given about a month to evacuate their belongings in August 2022, Milena Ordiyants had a different priority from most. “The house was already damaged, but for me, the most important things were my tools of the trade,” she recalls. “I took my loom, threads, sketches, sewing machine and my children’s

GENEVA, Switzerland — Sept. 24, 2026 — The Armenian Relief Society (ARS), an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in collaboration with the Armenian Legal Center for Justice & Human Rights (ALC), convened a side event during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council focused

Authoritarian regimes ban ideas that threaten their hold on power The history of freedom of speech—and its restriction—is, of course, highly instructive. In this regard, lists of banned books are particularly revealing. From the mid-16th century, for example, the Vatican published such lists, and over several centuries more than 5,200 books were deemed “harmful” or

By early morning on Sept. 19, Yerablur Military Pantheon was already crowded. Parents, relatives and friends of the fallen moved quietly among the graves, joined by citizens and opposition members of parliament. Three years ago, after more than nine months of starvation imposed by Azerbaijan, Artsakh came under large-scale attack. The 24-hour assault became the

“We demand that you acknowledge the immense pain your performance has caused the Armenian global community, reject the propaganda machine of the Aliyev regime, and hold yourself accountable to the universal values you claim to represent”

It is certainly surprising, and at times even astonishing, to see how society gives itself over to celebration while the wound left by the loss of Artsakh and other tragic events remains wide open, and hundreds of thousands of our compatriots continue to live with that pain. But, on the other hand, if we take

Majarian continued: “We must continue to keep this issue at the forefront and urge the Australian Government to condemn these unlawful imprisonments and call for the immediate and unconditional release of the Artsakh-Armenian hostages.”

Human rights and democracy are non-negotiable values and must not be subordinated to economic, fuel and energy, geopolitical, military, or other interests.

Members of the ruling Civil Contract party and government officials walked out of a discussion on Artsakh Armenians at the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights after committee chair Lilith Galstyan said that representatives of Artsakh’s state institutions were also attending the meeting. Let me remind you that, under the D’Hondt method, the chairmanship