SOAR - Capitolo Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires è entrata a far parte della famiglia SOAR nel novembre 2016. La maggior parte degli armeni arrivati ​​in Argentina negli anni '1920 proveniva dalla Cilicia dell'Impero Ottomano, lasciando la propria patria a causa del genocidio armeno. La comunità armena dell'Argentina ha mantenuto la sua identità grazie alla chiesa, alla scuola e alla struttura familiare. Attualmente, la comunità armena dell'Argentina ha nove chiese armene. Tra 70,000 e 135,000 armeni etnici vivono in Argentina, la più grande popolazione armena dell'America Latina e una delle più grandi al mondo.

CONSIGLIO DI AMMINISTRAZIONE:

Luciana Minassian
Presidente

Luciana Minassian is currently an assistant professor to International Law, Emiliano Buis chair, University of Buenos Aires, Law School. She is also currently working on legal aspects of Artsakh 2020´s war, mainly in cases for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Her collaboration with colleagues from Armenian diaspora lawyers associations is raising awareness for prisoners of war (POWs) and pushing for claims submitted to international bodies such as the UN, Council of Europe, and letters to the Vatican. Luciana has been working to provide support and cooperation with families of fallen soldiers since 2020 and assisting families of POWs in their everyday needs.

Adding to her current endeavors, Luciana is also working on Israel and Palestinian issues, as well as the invasion of Ukraine.

Luciana had recently served as the Assistant professor to Legal Aspects of Armenian Genocide Course, and former Assistant professor to the chair of Holocaust, Genocides and anti-discrimination, also at the University of Buenos Aires. Her other past work included collaborating with Argentinean friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.

Luciana is a member of the Armenian Women´s Bar Association, the National Congress of Western Armenians, and of the World Association of Armenian Lawyers