The award ceremony of the 9th mass media competition  entitled ''Equal Opportunities''  took place on December 9. The competition was hosted by the "Bridge of Hope" and "Mission East" organizations. According to them the articles had to represent the issues of...
The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey rose to 105, according to a written statement issued yesterday by the Platform of Solidarity with Imprisoned Journalists.Most lately, Aziz Tekin, the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat’s eastern province of Mardin...
The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) has opened the call for entries for its 2012 annual awards in international journalism. Named in memory of  an American freelance journalist who was killed while working in Sierra Leone in 2000, the awards recognise the work of...
After waiting in the queue for two hours in one of the Gyumri post offices, Alvard Mkrtchyan, 70, finally gets her monthly pension. Alvard’s pension, which is 30,000 AMD (US$75), is the only source of money for her 6-member family: her ill son, daughter-in-law and three teenage...