August 14, 2019 at 16:17 | Mining | Vayots dzor
This press release gives the impression that the village head can only return the money he has embezzled (it is not known whether it is state or community budget) and is exonerated from responsibility
August 08, 2019 at 15:41 | Mining | Vayots dzor
In reply to Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan’s question whether the expert opinion is subject to publishing, Grigoryan said that according to the provisions of RA Criminal Procedure Code, the expert
August 06, 2019 at 16:09 | Mining | Vayots dzor
The Municipality is demanding from court to annul the resolution N 44 on making the community an environmental and economic area and banning metallic mining in the community adopted on
August 05, 2019 at 14:19 | Mining | Vayots dzor
On 30 July, 2019, British “War on Want” and “Globarl Justice Now” NGOs announced about their support to the fight against Amulsar gold mining project initiating a global petition against the ISDS
August 01, 2019 at 17:51 | Mining | Vayots dzor
Campaign groups Global Justice Now and War on Want have called for Boris Johnson’s government to rule out so-called ‘corporate courts’ after Brexit, following a report today by parliament’s International Trade Committee describing the investment provisions as “hugely controversial”
July 30, 2019 at 18:41 | Officials | Vayots dzor
In the course of the preliminary investigation, around 70,000,000 AMD in total has been recovered out of the damage caused to the community
July 23, 2019 at 16:40 | Officials | Vayots dzor
Vayots Dzor Regional Investigative Department of RA Investigative Committee has accepted into proceedings the criminal case instigated based on the abuses apparently made by Ex Gndevaz Community Head
July 17, 2019 at 16:11 | Officials | Vayots dzor
It is possible to go to the mine area only with special transport means which aims ensuring the safety of expert group, while the company has provided such cars upon the demand of the body implementing the investigation
July 13, 2019 at 19:49 | Mining | Vayots dzor
On 13 July, the Amulsar protectors didn’t allow the investigator of RA Criminal Committee and the experts invited within the frames of the criminal case instigated based on the fact of illegal soil management in Amulsar to enter the area of Amulsar gold-bearing quartzite mine
July 09, 2019 at 15:00 | Officials | Vayots dzor | Yerevan
The Investigative Committee has posed questions to “ELARD” Company in charge of the assessment, as well as requirement to provide a number of comments, which resulted in the
July 09, 2019 at 14:22 | Officials | Vayots dzor | Yerevan
On its own initiative, the office of RA Human Rights Defender initiated discussion procedure as soon as it received information about the detention of Anna Shahnazaryan
June 20, 2019 at 16:04 | Mining | Vayots dzor
Initiated in a climate of corruption, the operations were suspended in August 2018 following strong opposition actions by local communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). FIDH warns against the disastrous toll that the mine’s operations would take on local communities.
June 05, 2019 at 17:21 | Mining | Vayots dzor | Yerevan
On 31 May 2019, the Investigative Committee received the preliminary opinion of the complex expert assessment on water resources and geology appointed for Amulsar gold-bearing quartzite mining
June 05, 2019 at 14:46 | Mining | Vayots dzor
On 4 June 2019, Amulsar protectors didn’t allow the employees of Lydian Armenia Company to enter the mine area thus keeping the roads running to Amulsar blocked for over one year
June 05, 2019 at 11:19 | Mining | Vayots dzor
RA Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case based on the willful concealing of information about pollution of the environment by officials of the RA Ministry of Nature Protection in the course of environmental impact expert assessment of Amulsar project
May 30, 2019 at 19:13 | Biodiversity | Vayots dzor
A 9-kilometer-long eco-educational path will be established in Gndevaz residential area in Jermuk Community, Vayots Dzor Region, equipped with information signs on the area biodiversity
May 29, 2019 at 16:50 | Mining | Vayots dzor
The Observatory expresses its deepest concern over the judicial harassment and smear campaigns against Msses. Tehmine Yenoqyan, Ani Khachatryan, Nazeli Vardanyan, Messrs. Levon Galstyan, Shirak Buniatyan and Edmon Aghabekyan and all environmental defenders, as they seem to be only aimed at punishing them for their legitimate human rights activities. The Observatory calls upon the authorities of
May 27, 2019 at 13:48 | Mining | Vayots dzor
Yeghegnadzor Aldermen’s Council adopted a resolution on making the community an environmental and economic area and banning metallic mining in the community
