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Showing posts with label president. Show all posts
Sunday, 27 May 2018

Elton John, friend of Armenia president, vows support for country’s LGBT community while president Armen Sargsyan says he has ‘no relations with that community'

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Elton John arrived in Yerevan as part of charitable project by Starkey hearing aids company. It was great to see he is accompanied by husban...
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Sunday, 26 June 2016

Istanbul Gay Pride: my diary of a powerful LGBT civil rights march

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Last year Istanbul Pride was violently dispersed. This year it was banned altogether. I dedicate this post to all the activists who strugg...
Saturday, 18 June 2016

Armenia and Orlando

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Armenia president Serj Sargsyan strongly condemns “horrendous manifestation of intolerance” and “any expression of hatred”. At least, this ...
Thursday, 23 July 2015

New draft of Armenia Constitution effectively bans same-sex marriage

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Armenia’s (current) Constitution in many aspects (not all) is pretty progressive. Of course, having the Constitution full with progressive i...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Armenia president’s administration, ministries respond to LGBT rights letter

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While replies from both president’s administration and ministries are vague and do not suggest any commitment by the authorities for tackli...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

PACE delegates: Armenian authorities fail to condemn incitement to hatred against LGBT people

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Below is a statement [ Written declaration No. 584 | Doc. 13690 | 28 January 2015 ] by 22 delegates of the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of t...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

Tabloid of hate: virulent homophobia awarded by Armenia president’s state medal and stamped by court’s approval

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I’d like to start this pretty depressing post on a somehow lighter note, with a joke (AM), posted on Facebook for this occasion by user A.N....
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Monday, 28 October 2013

NYC-based Armenian gay rights group (AGLA NY) statement against attempts at introducing in Armenia Russia-like 'propaganda' law

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Read also: Testing grounds: anti-gay ‘propaganda’ bill proposed, then swiftly withdrawn in Armenia Human Rights Watch letter to Armenia ...
Sunday, 27 October 2013

Progress in Tbilisi: Presidential candidates in Georgia questioned on gay rights

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Impressed that presidential candidates in Georgia were questioned on their views re "sexual minority rights". This is in itself a...
Saturday, 19 October 2013

Human Rights Watch letter to Armenia president regarding proposal for anti-LGBT legislation

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Excellent. Right to the point. The letter by Human Rights Watch , dated 12 August 2013 (see pdf file ), publicised yesterday. For ad...
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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Testing grounds: anti-gay ‘propaganda’ bill proposed, then swiftly withdrawn in Armenia

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Last week, a proposal by Armenia police in a form of amendments to the administrative offenses law was published on police.am website for “p...
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Monday, 21 January 2013

Today in history: Barack Obama highlights gay rights in an inaugural address

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Obama made history today as the first President of the United States to highlight gay rights in an inaugural address: "Our journey is...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Exposed: Chief of staff of Public Council of Armenia supports neo-nazi firebombers

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Hakob Barkhudaryan, chief of staff of Public Council of Republic of Armenia, a consultative body at Armenia president, created a Facebook p...
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Saturday, 1 October 2011

Armenia president Serj Sargsyan and openly gay mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë

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Jean Eckian reports from Paris that having attended Charles Aznavour concert in Olympia, Armenia president Serj Sargsyan met the mayor of P...
Saturday, 5 March 2011

(RU) Russia PM Putin re "ПИДРов, ПИЗДЮНов и ГЕИев"

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Priceless. Especially reply by Russia PM Putin :) You have to know Russian to get it. Re new abbreviations in police etc. "Путин про ...