The Korean Peninsula Crisis (II): From Fire and Fury to Freeze-for-Freeze
What’s new? The U.S. has responded to North Korean weapons tests with a campaign of “maximum pressure”, involving economic sanctions,...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 23, 2018
Politics and Security Hold Each Other Hostage in Nagorno-Karabakh
By Magdalena Grono Sniper fire can hit almost every open-air spot in Nerkin Karmiraghbyur, an Armenian village in the Tavush region on...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 17, 2018
Saved by Ukrainian Family, Jewish Boy Lived to Become Nobel Laureate
January 27 is the day the international community observes Holocaust Remembrance Day by recalling the horrors committed during World War...
VOA (Voice of America)
Jan 12, 2018
Words in Action: Language and Education in the Armenian Diaspora
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Jan 10, 2018
World Union of Jewish Students Recognizes the Armenian Genocide
The World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) recently formally recognized the Armenian Genocide at its 44th World Congress in Israel....
The Armenian Weekly
Jan 8, 2018
U.N. rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over Myanmar abuses
By Hyonhee Shin The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China...
Reuters
Dec 28, 2017
Gays Hide, Flee Ex-Soviet Republics As LGBT Crackdowns Turn Brutal
BAKU -- Niko, a 27-year-old gay epileptic from Baku, recalls being beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and raped by four police...
‘Jews out’ and ‘toasting the Holocaust’ daubed on Jewish buildings in Odessa, Ukraine
Anti-Semitic graffiti and slogans painted onto the city’s synagogue, Holocaust museum and community centre Unidentified individuals...
The Times of Israel
Dec 27, 2017
China, Russia oppose UNGA resolution
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution urging Myanmar to end the military campaign against Muslim Rohingyas. It also called on...
Daily Star
Dec 26, 2017
Ukraine: Will the Centre Hold?
What’s the issue? While the war in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas rumbles on, the regions of Polissya and Zakarpattya in the...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 21, 2017
Can Peacekeepers Break the Deadlock in Ukraine?
What’s the issue? In September 2017, Moscow proposed the deployment of UN peacekeepers along the line dividing Ukrainian from separatist...
International Crisis Group 1
Dec 15, 2017
RSF partners receive French human rights award
The two NGOs that are receiving the French Republic's Human Rights Prize in the "Freedom of Information, Press Freedom and Journalism"...
Reporters without Borders 1
Dec 12, 2017
