One month ago Save the Children published its 16th annual State of the World’s Mothers report. Using the latest data on women’s health, children’s health, educational attainment, economic well- being and female participation, the report ranked 179 countries, showing where mothers and children fare best and where they face the greatest hardships.
On May 29, 2015, the first 1915 Armenian Genocide memorial was opened in Sweden, in the city of Örebro.
The launch of the “Strengthening Health Care and Human Rights Protection in Prisons in Armenia” project will take place on June 2, 2015 at 10:00 at the “Ararat” ballroom of the Armenia Marriott Hotel, Yerevan.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia’s Foreign Minister IvicaDačić will visit Armenia on 3 June 2015. He will meet President Serzh Sargsyan, Speaker of Parliament Galust Sahakyan and Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian, as well as members of leading political parties, and visit the OSCE Office in Yerevan.
Democracy, or rather liberal democracy, advertises itself as a system of government in which individual rights prevail, but more accuratelyit is the name given to various political systems in which the “consent of the governed” legitimizes the political monopoly of capitalists as a class.
As I approach the Avetisyan family’s two story house on the outskirts of Vardenis, a village in Armenia’s Aragatzotn Province, I get the feeling that I was given wrong directions.