UNHCR commemorates 2 years of the #IBelong campaign to eradicate global statelessness
Significant progress has been made to eradicate statelessness around the world, but ongoing conflicts are putting those advances at risk. Marking the second anniversary of the global #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr....
Launch of UNHCR and Academy of Justice distance learning program on “Refugee Law”
UNHCR ARMENIA – On 15 September 2016, Academy of Justice has launched a distance learning program on Refugee Law envisaged for the judges of administrative courts of the Republic of Armenia with the support of the Representation of the United Nations High...
UN Secretary-General receives UNHCR #WithRefugees petition
NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today received a petition – #WithRefugees – from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, signed by more than 1.2 million people expressing solidarity with millions of people across the world driven from their homes by conflict and...
UNHCR Armenia Key messages for the World Refugee Day 2016
Over 60 million people are presently forcibly displaced. The conflict in Syria, only one of many present global trouble spots, has impacted and still impacts on Armenia. It has passed its 5th year and despite renewed and enhanced efforts of the international community...
Summer School on Public International Law
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University – On 9 July 2016, closing ceremony of the Summer School on Public International Law (PIL) and the two-day training on International Human Rights Law (IHRL) took place at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University in Yerevan....
Training on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
UNHCR YEREVAN. On 25 May 2016, in the frame of World Intellectual Property Day marked on 26 April each year, Ms. Marine Fidanyan, an expert on Intellectual Property Rights, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia and...
UNHCR in Armenia and Academy of Justice sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Commitment to Cooperation
Emphasising the importance of bilateral cooperation, Mr. Ruben Melikyan, the Rector of the Academy of Justice, mentioned: ‘’UNHCR and Academy of Justice are determined to assume a closer cooperation to strengthen the role of the judiciary in protection of...
Asylum Systems Quality Initiative. coordination meeting
UNHCR YEREVAN. On 3 February 2016, the first national coordination meeting of a regional project funded and implemented by UNHCR: ‘Asylum Systems Quality Initiative in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus (QIEE)’ – Phase 2, was convened to agree on key directions...
Migration Newsletter Interview with Mr. Christoph Bierwirth, UNHCR Representative in Armenia
Bierwirth, could you please update us on the situation of refugees and displaced persons worldwide and in Armenia specifically. Unfortunately today’s world is confronted with the largest displacement challenges since the end of World War II: at the end of 2013 more...