Strasbourg, 14.03.2025 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, welcomes the announcements of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the finalisation of negotiations on the draft Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations....
Strasbourg, 14.03.2025 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, welcomes the announcements of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the finalisation of negotiations on the draft Agreement on Peace and Establishment of Interstate Relations. When joining the Council of Europe in 2001, both countries pledged to work towards peaceful...
Bishop Hovakim Manukyan of the Diocese of The Armenian Church of the United Kingdom & Ireland, together with a group of Christian leaders, has sent a letter to the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, expressing deep concern over the unlawful detention of 23 Armenians by Azerbaijan. Following the forced...
#FreeArmenianHostages Berlin, March 10, 2025 – Human rights organizations, activists, and concerned citizens gathered today at the Brandenburg Gate to demand the immediate release of Armenian political prisoners unlawfully detained in Azerbaijan. The protest, organized by the Zentralrat der Armenier in Deutschland e.V., the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV),...
Aliyev’s Show Trials Echo Stalin’s Tactics in Suppressing Opposition By Luis Moreno Ocampo Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has resurrected one of Joseph Stalin’s most sinister tools: the show trial. Just as Stalin’s purges in the 1930s relied on forced confessions and sham trials to kill his rivals and strengthen...
Statement by Ruben Vardanyan,Armenian Political Prisoner Illegally Incarcerated in Azerbaijan (conveyed to his family during his weekly phone call)January 16, 2025 I would like to address the global community, to those who care about what is happening in our region, those opposed to religious persecution worldwide and those who...
Brussels, 20 November 2024 – In the backdrop of the COP29 currently taking place in Baku 20 members of the Belgian Federal Parliament, the Flemish Parliament, the Walloon Parliament and the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital-Region address the Azerbaijani Government and the Belgian government’s delegation to COP29, with three main demands:...
Strasbourg, 18.11.2024 – Azerbaijan as a multi-ethnic country strives to promote ethnic cultural, linguistic and religious tolerance and respect. Most national minority cultures are celebrated, and religious tolerance and interreligious dialogue are high on the government’s agenda. The rights of persons belonging to national minorities are protected in the...
Freedom House and partners found that Azerbaijani authorities waged a deliberate campaign to empty Nagorno-Karabakh of its ethnic Armenian population. WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a report released today from an international fact-finding mission composed of Freedom House...
At the COP29 UN Climate Change Conference on 11-22 November in Azerbaijan, the European Union will work with international partners to deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement of limiting global average temperature rise to as close as possible to 1.5C. Climate change continues to be an issue...
On 6 November 2024 a conference titled “COP29 in Baku: Greenwashing an Ethnic Cleansing?” was held at the European Parlement. The conference focused on various aspects of holding this global UN conference in Azerbaijan, notably in the context of the developments in the region, such as the ethnic cleansing...
