News & events
14.03.2008 OSCE Special Representatives Calls For Political Dialogue To Overcome Crisis In Armenia
VIENNA, 4 March 2008 - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, called on Armenian authorities today to lift restrictions on independent news reporting that have been in place since the state of emergency was declared on 1 March. "The state of emergency should not be used by the government to take away the public's right to news from diverse sources. Pluralistic reporting helps ensure transparency of governmental action even in dire times," said...
25.02.2008 Journalists physically attacked during election campaign
Reporters Without Borders called for the punishment of those responsible for attacking or obstructing three journalists as they were covering the presidential election campaign in Erevan on February 19. “The authorities must take these incidents seriously,” it said. “The journalists were simply doing their job”. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said the election victory of former prime minister Serge Sargsyan was up to international standards but...
20.02.2008 The rights of journalists were infringed during the presidential elections
During the presidential elections in February 19, several cases were registered when the right of journalists to have access to information was violated. Here are 2 examples of such cases (sourse` A1+ news agency). There was a hustle and bustle at Precinct 5/23, Arabkir, at about 6 o’clock p.m. Over ten fellows were “seriously engaged in something.” They seemed to be putting in a bulb. In fact, some of them were standing on the table, while the others were stuffing ballots in the...
26.12.2007 RA Ministers Income and Asset Declarations of 2007 were published
The RA State Tax Inspection provided income and asset declarations of the RA Ministers to FOICA. You can find the Armenian version here.
26.12.2007 BLACK LIST 2007
THESE OFFICIALS HAVE VIOLATED PEOPLES' RIGHT OF INFORMATION IN 2007 1 Ashot Ghahramanyan Mayor of the region Armavir 2 Mher Sedrakyan Head of the municipality...
26.12.2007 FOI Training Needs Assessments Report 2007
Training Needs Assessment was conducted by the Freedom of Information Centre of Armenia and the Civil Service Council of the Republic of Armenia , with the support of the OSCE office in Yerevan . On 23 September 2003 Armenia adopted a comprehensive Freedom of Information law. However, until today the implementation of the FOI law continues to pose a significant challenge for national and local authorities as well as for Armenian society at large....
