From January to December 2024, Peace Dialogue NGO documented 33 deaths within the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia. […]

During the summer conscription of 2019, citizen K.B. applied to Peace Dialogue NGO in order be provided with legal support […]

The RA Administrative Court of Appeal in its decision of April 25, 2016 allowed Peace Dialogue NGOs appeal against the RA Administrative Court’s decision (11.03.2016) to proceed.

The website and database www.safesoldiers.am has been updated with information provided to Peace Dialogue NGO by private individuals, NGOs along with information from public media. With this update, the website database now lists a total of 810 fatalities recorded in the Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces since 1994 (currently the complete database is available at the Armenian version of the website).

In a democracy, soldiers are citizens. It is that simple: They deserve to be treated as citizens, and they should not tolerate being treated otherwise, even if the military service, in training and operations, includes hardships and deprivations. An army that structurally violates the rights of its citizen-soldiers will lose legitimacy, and, in the long term, it will lose military efficacy as well.