Global ARM Statement on U.S. State Department’s 2024 Human Rights Report for Azerbaijan
Washington, D.C. — Global ARM President Timothy Jemal issued the following statement in response to the U.S. State Department’s release of the 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights in Azerbaijan: “The State Department’s 2024 Country Report for Azerbaijan confirms what we already know: Baku and Aliyev continue to commit serious human rights abuses against ethnic Armenians while refusing to […]
Global ARM Statement on U.S. State Department’s 2023 Human Rights Reports
Washington, D.C. – Global ARM has anxiously awaited the release of the U.S. State Department’s 2023 Human Rights Reports, viewing this annual process as an opportunity for the U.S. Government to highlight the worsening circumstances faced by ethnic Armenians as Azerbaijani forces continue to perpetuate human rights violations in the South Caucasus. Detailed comments that Global ARM […]
International Criminal Court Requested to Investigate Genocide Perpetrated by Azerbaijan against Ethnic Armenians
Washington, D.C. – For the first time since Armenia’s ratification of the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been requested to open a preliminary examination into the ongoing genocide being perpetrated by Azerbaijan’s armed forces against ethnic Armenians in Armenian territory under the unlawful occupation of Azerbaijan since May 12, 2021. The request to the ICC, submitted […]
Statement of Global ARM President Timothy Jemal on Armenia, U.S. and EU Summit, Azerbaijani Attacks
Washington, D.C. – On April 5, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, USAID Administrator Samantha Power, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, met in Brussels to reaffirm support for Armenia’s sovereignty, democracy, territorial integrity, and socio-economic resilience. The leaders pledged to expand economic and humanitarian support for Armenia and strengthen the democratic […]
Global ARM Statement on Former ICC Prosecutor’s Report that Azerbaijan’s Blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh Constitutes Genocide
Yesterday, former ICC Prosecutor Luis Ocampo issued a detailed report asserting that Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor constitutes Genocide according to the Genocide Convention in “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction.” Since Azerbaijan first erected the blockade in December 2022, U.S. Secretary of State Atony […]