The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders
Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels - UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1999)
The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders unites 30 human rights NGOs in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The Network seeks to facilitate creation of a safer and enabling environment for human rights defenders in the South Caucasus and to strengthen their voices in the region and internationally.
A thorn in the side of Georgia’s Rose Revolution
Armenian Human rights activist passed away unexpectedly in Canada
[31.08.2010]
Vakhtang Komakhidze was an investigative journalist in Georgia with a nose for a story and a record of annoying the authorities. His revelations of official corruption ended in the death threats which forced him to seek asylum in Switzerland. Robin Oisín Llewellyn talked to him about the limits of media freedom in Georgia.
[12.08.2010]
It became known on Wednesday morning
that the member of the Monitoring Group of the Helsinki Association
Arshaluys Hakobyan has passed away in Toronto (Canada) at the age of
38. Hakobyan was in Canada, asking for political asylum. He was forced
to apply as a result of continuous harassment by the Armenian
authorities.
Other News
ԱՄՆ պետքարտուղար Հ.Քլինթոնը 2010 թվի օգոստոսի 24-ին պատասխանել է Հարավային Կովկասի իրավապաշտպան ցանցի հայաստանյան կազմակերպությունների այն նամակին, որով վերջիններս դիմել էին իրեն` Երեւան կայացած այցի ժամանակ` հուլիսի 5-ին: Ստորեւ ներկայացվում ԱՄՆ պետքարտուղարի նամաիի թարգմանությունը եւ բնօրինակը:
Members of the South Caucasus Network
of Human Rights Defenders condemn the arrest of the participants of a
peaceful flash mob action held on 14th of August on George W. Bush
street in Tbilisi. The action was organized by young poets, Irakli
Kakabadze, Shota Gagarin and Alex Chigviladze. Participants demanded
renaming the street after the name of the famous American poet and
humanists Walt Whitman and read poems by Whitman during the action.
Eynulla Fatullayev, an imprisoned
Editor-in-Chief of “Realniy Azerbaijan” and “Gundelik Azerbaijan”
newspapers, wrote an open letter to the President of the Azerbaijan
Republic Ilham Aliyev. The letter was published in two parts in Azadlig
newpaper on August 6 and 7.
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[09.07.2010]
Armenia: Essay Contest on Human Rights
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