Issues that the ARF-D is following with interest and/or concern.
Today, in the morning of March 21, the Armenian-populated city of Kesab in Syria became the target of attacks by armed bands that raided the Syrian territory after crossing the Turkish border. From the beginning of the attacks Sev Aghbyur village –a part of Kesab- was made a target; the surrounding hills of the village…
ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY, INC.TO PARTICIPATE AT THE 58TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AT THE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK CITY The Armenian Relief Society, Inc., as an ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organization (NGO), is again participating and hosting multiple panel discussions at this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of…
The “Help Your Brother” foundation continues providing assistance to Syrian Armenians especially those having settled in Armenia. From February 12 and for five days on, from 12:00-18:00 pm, and with the cooperation of the Christian Medical Association food aid will be supplied to around 500 Syrian Armenian families at the Armenian Scouts’ Organization offices (17/6…
ISTANBUL, Turkey (armenianweekly.com)—Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan reaffirmed the Armenian Genocide and called on Turkey and the world to confront history in a letter first published by Agos on Jan. 30. The PKK leader, who was arrested in 1999 and is serving a life sentence in the Imrali prison, wrote the letter in the context of…
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier The European Court of Human Rights issued last week a critical Armenian Genocide-related ruling in the case of Dogu Perincek vs. Switzerland. Perincek, the leader of a minor Turkish political party, had traveled to Switzerland in 2005 with the intention of daring the Swiss authorities to punish him…
By Serouj Aprahamian (armenianweekly.com) – Twenty five years ago, on December 7, 1988, a catastrophic earthquake ripped through Armenia, decimating the town of Spitak and surrounding areas. The quake left more than 25,000 people dead, 15,000 injured, 517,000 homeless, and $14.2 billion in economic damage. Earthquake Graphic 300×300 Reducing the Risk of 1988 This year,…
(horizonweekly.ca) – More than 1,400 girls are not being born every year in Armenia; their mothers choose to terminate their pregnancies rather than have a female child. It is estimated, that by 2030 Armenia will have approximately 90,000 missing women—women who should have been, but were not, born because of sex-selective abortions. Statistic shows an…
(azatutyun.am RFE/RL) — Armenia has the most monopolized economy among former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, according to a new report released by the World Bank (WB), asbarez.com reports. The report entitled “Re-Engineering a New Growth Model for Armenia: Accumulation, Competition, and Connectivity” was presented at the WB Yerevan office on Wednesday. According to…
The Conference of the Armenian National Committees of the American continent and Australia was held on November 16-17, in Montreal, Canada. Representatives from the ANCs of Canada, Eastern USA, Western USA and Australia as well as a delegation from the Washington office of the Armenian National Committee of America attended the Conference. The global political…
(armenianweekly.com) DAMASCUS, Syria — In recent weeks the Syrian conflict has claimed a number of Armenian victims, including two children, whose loss has shocked the community. On Nov. 11, as students were released from the Holy Translators Armenian National School (Azgayin Surb Targmanjats Jemaran) in the Bab Tuma district, a mortar fell by the main…
