The pursuit of academic work and historical truth must remain independent of shifting political circumstances or political expediency, especially regarding matters that affect humanity. The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (IIGHRS),...
The pursuit of academic work and historical truth must remain independent of shifting political circumstances or political expediency, especially regarding matters that affect humanity. The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (IIGHRS), a division of Zoryan Institute, reaffirms a core principle of scholarship. There has recently been...
We, the undersigned, express deep concern over the recent and troubling developments at the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute (AGMI) in Yerevan. On March 11, 2026, Dr. Edita Gzoyan, one of the most outstanding and dedicated directors in the history of the Institute, submitted her resignation — reportedly under pressure...
Toronto, ON December 9, 2025 – On the United Nations International Day of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide, established on December 9, 1948, Upper Canada College (UCC) hosted the Zoryan Institute’s high-school educational program. The Zoryan Institute, the parent organization of the International Institute for Genocide and...
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security issued a statement on the Armenia-Azerbaijan agreement signed at the White House last month, warning that the “deal” could lead to resumption of military aggression and poses a threat of genocide against Armenians in the South Caucasus. “What the agreement...
Thursday, July 3, 2025: We express our deep concern and disappointment regarding the recent proposal introduced in the Turkish Parliament to rename the border crossing between Turkey and Armenia after Talat Pasha, the principal architect of the Armenian Genocide. As Minister of the Interior of the Ottoman Empire, Talat...
The ANIV Foundation, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute and the Heritage and Progress Foundation have published a Russian translation of Karnig Panian’s (1910–1989) “Memories of Childhood and Orphanhood: Story of a Boy Who Survived the Genocide”. The book presents a young child’s perspective on the genocide of Armenians in the...
Women are Remembered and Praised as Guardians of Memory, the Architects of Recovery, and the Carriers of Cultural Identity on this 110th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide April 24, 2025, TORONTO: When genocide strikes, it aims not just to eliminate individuals, but to annihilate a people — their culture,...
Today, parliamentarians from all political parties and both Houses of the UK Parliament gathered at the Cenotaph in London to pay their respects and commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and call for the UK Government to recognise it as genocide. The ceremony opened with a speech...
As if we didn’t already have enough disputes among Armenians, a new argument surfaced last week between Arman Babajanyan, head of a minor pro-Western political party that supports Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and former Foreign Minister of Armenia Vartan Oskanian. On April 8, 2025, Babajanyan wrote on his Facebook...
Actor, writer, and producer Joe Manganiello offered a moving reflection on his great-grandmother’s survival of the Armenian Genocide and the legacy of generational trauma it left behind. In recounting her harrowing escape from Kharpert, Manganiello described how she survived a bullet wound, swam across the Euphrates River with her last remaining...
