Rafik Yengibaryan

Freelance Journalist

Skilled Journalist with 5-year history conceptualizing and reporting on diverse stories. Versed in digital media and skilled in writing and editing pieces for online platforms. A story-driven Journalist adept at developing articles and investigating issues with tenacious and unwavering dedication. Passionate about issues concerning Human Rights, organized crime and social and racial inequality worldwide.

Global Voices •

The South Caucasus: In pursuit of its lost identity

Poka Leanui, a Hawaiian decolonial activist, wrote an essay called, “Processes of Decolonization,” where he suggests five steps to decolonizing a people group: recovery, mourning, dreaming, commitment, and action. Essentially, Leanui was suggesting that decolonization involved looking at how power was distributed within a society and what changes had to take shape in order for everyone to be treated fairly.

In the broader geographical context, the scholar’s thesis is relevant in many other part
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Queering Nations Father - Issuu

Tamar Shirinian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Her areas of focus are transnational feminism, queer theory and medical and psychological anthropology. She is also among the very first contributors in modern Armenian Gender and Queer studies. Her latest works include a special edition “Queering Armenian Studies” in “The Armenian Review” magazine published in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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HMKW Digital Stories •

When the Sex Stops: Berlin Sex Club goes Digital

A short movie by Airinë Nuqi, Stephen Benkert, and Raf Yengibaryan (MA Digital Journalism) produced as part of the module Media Production with lecturer Patrik Baab.

With the lockdown restrictions in place as preventative measures against the Corona pandemic, sex clubs in Berlin have been forced to adapt in new ways – with an idea on how to open safely in the future. Despite the fact that the State of Berlin has allocated funds to support the clubs, in particular by subsidizing the rent and pay
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Lichk Mine 300 metres far from residence

Lichk mine is located 300 metres far from the homonymous Lichk village and 24 km far from Meghri town. It is already more than a year since the mine operation has been suspended.

The reason for cessation of the work is not that clear. However, a few days before the work suspension, on May 19, 2018, the Ministry of Environment (now` Nature Protection) permitted “Tatstone” LLC (company operating the mine) to build a 110 kV high-voltage overhead line and substation in the Lichk mine. While in Janu

Nrnadzor: Convicts in the southernmost village of Armenia can move freely, work and feel themselves full members of society | Forrights.am

Open type correctional facilities are mainly located in penitentiary establishments, but the Nrnadzor settlement is the only one in Armenia where the facility is fully opened and located right in the rural community. Convicts in the southernmost village of Armenia can move freely, work and live in the rural community and feel as full members of the community.

Nrnadzor (previously– Nyuvadi) is the southernmost village of Armenia, located in Syunik region. In 2016, the village became one of the e

Penitentiary service arbitrariness: The convict is deprived of the opportunity to see his family members | Forrights.am

Life-term prisoner Artyom Safaryan, who is serving his sentence in the Armavir Penitentiary, is unable to enjoy his rights stipulated by law and meet his relatives. His family, his father, mother and wife live in Vanadzor, in difficult social conditions and are unable to cut long roads and reach Armavir to visit him. Artyom’s retired parents have health problems and this also is a serious hindrance for them. When talking about his parents, pale and skinny Artyom becomes fretted, his voice trembl
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Anastasia's Story: "12 Years of Struggle or How to Get an Education in an Armenian Prison"

- When I was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and ended up in Armenia's Abovyan Penitentiary, I didn’t think that I could ever study or even have a life. It seemed to me like everything just stopped. What can happen to you in 12 years? You never know…

Anastasia was in this state of mind at the initial stage of her imprisonment.

- I spent 2 years in isolation. I couldn’t even use the library. I was getting books only from my relatives when they came to visit me. I read literature about art an