Anoush Baghdassarian is a Harvard International Legal Studies Fellow serving as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court. She has her JD from Harvard Law School, a Master’s in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Genocide Studies from Claremont McKenna College. She is Co-founder of the Rerooted Archive, documenting over 200 testimonies from Syrian-Armenian refugees who have fled Syria in the last ten years.
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In February, the International Court of Justice issued its decision ordering Azerbaijan to stop its blockade of 120,000 ethnic Armenians living in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It’s been 116 days since the blockade and 43 days since the order, and the situation remains the same.
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