On 2 February, the 12th award ceremony of the EU Prize for Journalism 2023 took place in Tbilisi. EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski awarded the winners in six categories covering print, broadcast, online,...
On 2 February, the 12th award ceremony of the EU Prize for Journalism 2023 took place in Tbilisi. EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski awarded the winners in six categories covering print, broadcast, online, and photo journalism. The winner of the EU Monitoring Mission’s (EUMM) special prize for peace...
Dear Friends, According to our round-up, a total of 779 journalists were jailed at some point in 2023 and 547 will spend New Year’s Eve in prison. China, Myanmar, Belarus and Vietnam are the four biggest jailers of media personnel. Between them, they are holding more than half of the world’s imprisoned journalists. The sentences passed on women journalists broke records in...
On 11 December, the EU Foreign Affairs Council agreed to strengthen the European Union civilian mission in Armenia (EUMA), increasing its presence on the ground from 138 staff to 209. Announcing this, EU High Representative Josep Borrell said it was “an important increase in the size of the mission,...
Charity Ultramarathon “Moving Forward to Improve Healthcare in Armenia” – 14 marathons in 14 consecutive days! Buenos Aires, Argentina – December 3, 2023 — From December 3rd through 16th, 2023, Infectious Disease Specialist and Medical Director of FIDEC Armenia, Pablo Elmassian, will embark on a remarkable 600-kilometer ultramarathon, running an...
Not a day passes without Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan making a new blunder. This is what happens when a yellow journalist becomes the head of government. Most Armenians, blinded by their utter dislike of the former leaders, welcomed him initially with open arms. Fortunately, Pashinyan’s popularity has plummeted from...
A Love Story for Artsakh The date was July 21, 2023 when Astrid and Stephen, a young Armenian couple living in New York City, decided to organize their first protests of many in front of the United Nations Headquarters to show solidarity with the besieged people of Artsakh (Nagorno...
Keghart.org interviews Jerusalem activist Hagop Djernazian, who along with Setrag Balian and several other concerned Jerusalemites, helped expose and publicize the illegal Goveroun Bardez (Cows’ Garden) contract secretly signed by Patriarch Nourhan Manougian, now defrocked Rev. Baret Yeretsian, and Archbishop Sevan Gharibian. The 98-year lease gave away twenty-five percent of the Armenian...
Humanitarian Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh Statement by Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić Strasbourg, 28.07.2023 – “I am extremely concerned about the serious humanitarian and human rights situation in Nagorno-Karabakh and my thoughts go to the residents who are bearing the brunt of this situation.”I strongly reiterate my previous calls...
ANNOUNCEMENT-APPEAL Yesterday, after Nikol Pashinyan’s press conference that lasted for hours, during which the journalistic community put him in an uncomfortable situation with their questions, arguing back and drawing parallels to 2018 revolution, between the statements made by him during his tenure back then and now, raising questions also...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) held a landmark hearing spotlighting Azerbaijan’s escalating aggression against the indigenous Armenian Christians of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), calling for sanctions against the Azerbaijani government in the face of a second Armenian Genocide taking place in the region. “Today’s hearing both...
