Republic of Armenia

• State Department - Country Documents

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ZZZ105075.E - Armenia and Ukraine: Requirements and procedures to renounce and acquire Armenian citizenship after renunciation, including for minors; recognition of dual citizenship in Ukraine (2003-2015) - February 2015
    • ZZZ104636.FE - Armenia and Syria: Procedure for Syrians of Armenian origin to obtain Armenian citizenship from other countries, such as Canada - October 2013

• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 5th Country of Origin Information Workshop - Specific Groups at Risk - Dec. 1999
• Amnesty International

  • Armenia: Summary of Amnesty International’s concerns - January 1998

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• Department of Labor - Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010

• Coalition to stop the use of Child Soldiers - Child Soldiers Global Report - 2008
• Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Children's rights - 2021/22
• Human Rights Watch

  • “When Will I Get to Go Home?” - Abuses and Discrimination against Children in Institutions and Lack of Access to Quality Inclusive Education in Armenia - February 2017

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM103391.E - Armenia: Police corruption, particularly whether there are government actions to combat it and whether there is a police complaints authority (January 2008 - September 2010) - September 2010

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• Congressional Research Service
  • Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests - December 2010

• Election Guide - Recent Elections
• Human Rights Watch
  • Democracy on Rocky Ground: Armenia?s Disputed 2008 Presidential Election, Post-Election Violence, and the One-Sided Pursuit of Accountability - Feb 2009
  • AN IMITATION OF LAW: The Use of Administrative Detention in the 2003 Armenian Presidential Election - May 2003
• Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Elections - 2021/22
• Amnesty International

  • Armenia: Amnesty International calls for investigations into beatings of opposition supporters following election protests - October 1996

Foreign Government Reports

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM105280.E - Armenia: Founding Parliament political movement; including history, objectives, leadership, and recruitment; incidents of violence involving members; treatment of members by authorities (2013-2015) - September 2015

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Ethnic Groups / Race

• World Directory of Minorities - 2016

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM100691 - Armenia: State protection available to women forced into arranged marriages (January 2000 - December 2005) - December 2005
  • AMN42415 - Armenia: State protection available for women who are victims of violence - March 2004

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

• European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
  • COI Query - Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - Situation of women who have children out of wedlock, including legal framework, treatment by society, and access to support services - Feb. 2024

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Amnesty International
  • No pride in silence Countering violence in the family in Armenia - Nov 2008
• Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Women’s Rights - 2021/22

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• State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

• Amnesty International - 2022/21, 2019, 2017/18
• Amnesty International
  • IN THE LINE OF FIRE - CIVILIAN CASUALTIES FROM UNLAWFUL STRIKES IN THE ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFLICT OVER NAGORNO-KARABAKH - Jan 2021

  • Armenia: Civil society activists hospitalised after brutal attack in Yerevan - September 2013

  • Bayatyan v Armenia: Third Party intervention to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights - July 2010

  • No Pride in Silence – Countering violence in the family in Armenia – November 2008

  • Armenia: Comments on the initial report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee- August 1998

  • Armenia: Amnesty International urges the Armenian Government to implement recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee - November 1998

• International Crisis Group

  • Post-war Prospects for Nagorno-Karabakh - June 2021

  • Digging out of Deadlock in Nagorno-Karabakh - December 2019

• Freedom House
  • Freedom In The World - 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
    • Freedom on the Net - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
    • Nations in Transit - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

    • A New Eurasian Far Right Rising: Reflections on Ukraine, Georgia, and Armenia - Jan 2020

• Human Rights Watch - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

• Ireland Refugee Documentation Center
  • Current information on freedom of assembly - July 2010
• International Crisis Group
  • Preventing a Bloody Harvest on the Armenia-Azerbaijan State Border - July 2020

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM103391.E - Armenia: Police corruption, particularly whether there are government actions to combat it and whether there is a police complaints authority (January 2008 - September 2010) - September 2010

• Human Rights Watch
  • AN IMITATION OF LAW: The Use of Administrative Detention in the 2003 Armenian Presidential Election - May 2003
• Amnesty International
  • Armenia: Alleged ill-treatment of detainees arrested in connection with the October 1999 shootings in the Armenian parliament - May 2001

  • Armenia: “Respect my human dignity”: Imprisonment of conscientious objectors - August 1999

  • Armenia: Time to abolish the death penalty - March 1997

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• University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection

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Intergovernmental Organization Reports

• World Health Organization Page

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Human Rights Watch
  • “All I Can Do is Cry” Cancer and the Struggle for Palliative Care in Armenia - July 2015

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• CIA - The World Factbook
• RIC Report
  • Armenia: The Armenian National Movement and ?Husos Paros? - July 2000

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM102584 - Armenia: People's Party of Armenia; treatment of members by authorities and society (2003 - Sept. 2007) - Sept 2007
  • AMN42620.E - Past practices of the Soviet Committee for State Security (Komitet Gosurdarstvennoi Besopasnosti - KGB), including recruitment practices pre-1991, and current treatment of former officers of the KGB in Armenia - May 2004
  • AMN42335 - Armenia: People's Party of Armenia; treatment by authorities and society; state protection (2002-2003) - Feb 2004
  • AMN41892 - Armenia: Identities of the presidents and vice-presidents of the Social-Democratic Party (Hunchakian); treatment of party executives and families; state protection (1992-Aug. 2003) - September 2003

• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 5th Country of Origin Information Workshop - Historical and political background - Dec. 1999
• Human Rights Watch
  • Democracy on Rocky Ground Armenia?s Disputed 2008 Presidential Election, Post-Election Violence, and the One-Sided Pursuit of Accountability - Feb 2009
  • AN IMITATION OF LAW: The Use of Administrative Detention in the 2003 Armenian Presidential
    Election - May 2003
• Amnesty International

  • Commonwealth of Independent States: Political prisoners in Azerbaijan and Armenia: Amnesty International’s concerns and recommendations - January 2002

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Intergovernmental Organization Reports

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Fact sheet on the situation of refugees, asylum-seekers, persons in refugee-like situations and stateless people (as of February 2024) - Feb. 2024
  • Report on the impact of travel to Ukraine on refugees' legal status and access to rights in host countries - Aug. 2023

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • ARMENIA: Need to monitor progress towards durable solutions - A profile of the internal displacement situation - February 2010

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• State Department International Religious Freedom Report - 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012

Non-Government Organization Reports

• Amnesty International

  • Armenia: Fear of the freedom of conscience and religion: violations of the rights of Jehovah’s Witnesses - January 2008

  • Armenia: A positive step towards religious freedom - September 2001

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• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM104969.E - Armenia: Armenia: Treatment of sexual minorities in the military, including whether they are admitted (2012-September 2014) - September 2014

• Amnesty International
  • Amnesty International - Less Equal: LGBTI Human Rights Defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan - December 2017

  • Armenia: Attack on LGBTI activists must be investigated and perpetrators brought to justice - August 2018

  • Armenia: No space for difference - August 2013

  • Armenia: Domestic and Sexual Violence in Armenia: Health Professional Action - October 2008

  • CIS: Amnesty International working against laws punishing sexual relations between men - August 1997

• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 8th European Country of Origin Information Country Report - Sexual Minorities - June 2002
• Human Rights Watch Annual Report - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity - 2022/21

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• Library of Congress Congressional Research Service (CRS)
  • Azerbaijan and Armena: The Nagorno Karabakh Conflict - Jan. 2021
  • Armenia’s Velvet Revolution - January 2019

• Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
  • ARM106213.E - The Prosperous Armenia Party (Bargavach Hayastan kusaktsut’yun, BHK), including leadership, structure, objectives and activities; requirements and procedures to become a member of the party; treatment by the ruling party and state authorities (2015-December 2018) - January 2019

• Austrian Center for Country Origin & Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • Query response - Armenia: Persecution of army officers: 1) Officers who disobeyed orders to shoot at protesters during manifestations on 1 March 2008 and have been subjected to disproportionate punishment; 2) Officers who have been sent to Nagorno-Karabakh as a disciplinary sanction and have possibly been killed there under unusual circumstances; 3) Armenian army officers (or officers from other former Soviet states) who have been killed abroad under unusual circumstances - November 2009
• Amnesty International
  •  Armenia: Last to flee: Older people’s experience of war crimes and displacement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - May 2022
• Human Rights Watch
  • No One is Spared: Abuses Against Older People in Armed Conflict - February 2022

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• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 8th European Country of Origin Information Country Report - Draft Evaders/Deserters - June 2002

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• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 8th European Country of Origin Information Country Report - Corruption/Organized Crime - June 2002

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• Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD)
  • 8th European Country of Origin Information Country Report - Freedom of Expression - June 2002
• Amnesty International

  • Armenia must protect all forms of free expression - August 2013

  • Armenian authorities must protect free speech and ensure safety for Azerbaijani film festival organisers - April 2012

  • Armenia: Authorities must observe principles of necessity and proportionality in responding to opposition demonstrations - March 2008

• Freedom House

  • Freedom of the Net - 2023

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• Trafficking in Persons Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons - Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 2016