Commissioner of the Human rights of the Council of Europe Nils Muiznieks today summarized the results of the visit to Armenia and gave a number of recommendations […]

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  This year March 8 switches to “Women’s empowerment is enlargement of entire human capacity proclaimed within the process “Beijing+20”. The slogan is “Remember about it”. The UN […]

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The European Committee of Social Rights  published its annual conclusions on 41 countries, including Armenia. This year’s conclusions focus on labour rights.     The Committee is a […]

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Hearing of the “Perincheck against Swiss case” has recently been held at the European Court of Human Rights in respect of which a decision will be made in […]

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Press conference of NGOs dealing with the issue of violence against women held yesterday at Media Center was dedicated to this topic. Speakers – Tatevik Aghabekyan (Sexual assault […]

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Armenia’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the country’s accomplishments and existing challenges in human rights was discussed Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, at the session of the UPR […]

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Armenia’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the second time on  22 January 2015 in […]

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  The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention ‘of the peoples of the world’ the Universal Declaration […]

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16 days of activism against gender-based violence is coming to its end, but it lacked a single State announcement which would show the State’s support to the struggle […]

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Such an opinion was expressed by Hovhannes Sahakyan – Chairman of NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs with regard to draft law “On preventing violence”. It […]

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