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UNITED HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
P.O. Box 9426
Glendale, CA 91206
Contact: Serouj Aprahamian
Tel: (951) 316-6351 - mobile
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.unitedhumanrights.org
UNITED HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONDUCTS FACT STRIP DISTRIBUTION
Glendale, CA - On Saturday, January 29, the United Human Rights
Council (UHRC) held its first large-scale fact strip distribution of
2005. Council members visited Armenian grocery stores in both
Glendale and Pasadena, providing them with informative flyers about
human rights abuses committed by the Turkish government. Store clerks
and managers were urged to place the flyers on their check-out
counters for customers to pick up.
According to Ani Garibyan, one of the organizers of Saturday's action,
the UHRC regularly carries out such fact strip distributions in order
to `raise the awareness of Armenian consumers' susceptible to buying
Turkish products. `We figure that if we want to stop Armenians from
buying Turkish products, the best thing to do is to directly go to the
stores where they shop,' stated Garibyan.
Many of those who took part in the distribution explained that most
store managers were receptive to their campaign. Several clerks even
insisted on putting the fact strips in the grocery bags of customers.
In addition, the UHRC members conducted a survey of Armenian shoppers
at the stores they visited. Customers were asked a series of
questions regarding Turkish products being sold in Armenian stores,
including whether or not they realized that the Turkish government
receives tax revenue from companies exporting such products to the
U.S. The results of the survey will be used to help structure future
campaigns aimed towards ridding Turkish products from Southern
California stores.
The United Human Rights Council (UHRC), by means of action on a
grassroots level, works toward correcting the human rights violations
of those governments who distort, deny, and delude their own history
to disguise past and present genocides, massacres, and human rights
violations. The UHRC is a collective of concerned citizens, including
a diverse spectrum of members and supporters from various community-
based organizations and student associations of universities and
colleges.
P.O. Box 9426
Glendale, CA 91206
Contact: Serouj Aprahamian
Tel: (951) 316-6351 - mobile
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.unitedhumanrights.org
UNITED HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONDUCTS FACT STRIP DISTRIBUTION
Glendale, CA - On Saturday, January 29, the United Human Rights
Council (UHRC) held its first large-scale fact strip distribution of
2005. Council members visited Armenian grocery stores in both
Glendale and Pasadena, providing them with informative flyers about
human rights abuses committed by the Turkish government. Store clerks
and managers were urged to place the flyers on their check-out
counters for customers to pick up.
According to Ani Garibyan, one of the organizers of Saturday's action,
the UHRC regularly carries out such fact strip distributions in order
to `raise the awareness of Armenian consumers' susceptible to buying
Turkish products. `We figure that if we want to stop Armenians from
buying Turkish products, the best thing to do is to directly go to the
stores where they shop,' stated Garibyan.
Many of those who took part in the distribution explained that most
store managers were receptive to their campaign. Several clerks even
insisted on putting the fact strips in the grocery bags of customers.
In addition, the UHRC members conducted a survey of Armenian shoppers
at the stores they visited. Customers were asked a series of
questions regarding Turkish products being sold in Armenian stores,
including whether or not they realized that the Turkish government
receives tax revenue from companies exporting such products to the
U.S. The results of the survey will be used to help structure future
campaigns aimed towards ridding Turkish products from Southern
California stores.
The United Human Rights Council (UHRC), by means of action on a
grassroots level, works toward correcting the human rights violations
of those governments who distort, deny, and delude their own history
to disguise past and present genocides, massacres, and human rights
violations. The UHRC is a collective of concerned citizens, including
a diverse spectrum of members and supporters from various community-
based organizations and student associations of universities and
colleges.