Every year on December 10th Human Rights International Day is celebrated. On this day in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   […]

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  Last year, as a result of Ombudsman’s monitoring many troubling problems were recorded in 8 special schools which were under the jurisdiction of Yerevan Municipality, the Ministry […]

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  The Ombudsman’s office has issued a statement which warns that № 16 special school which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Science is […]

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  Hundreds of cases of domestic, sexual, physical, psychological violence against women have been registered during ten months of this year. We are talking about domestic violence the […]

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  The Ombudsmen has recently presented his annual report in which a reference with separate subtitle on women’s rights was made.   We will represent some observations on […]

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  Throughout the world 35% of women and girls have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence once or more in their lifetime. In some countries, seven out […]

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It will take another 118 years until the global pay gap between men and women is finally closed. That’s the year 2133.   So say the authors of […]

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Armenia is ranked 105rd among 145 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2015 released by the World Economic Forum.   The Global Gender Gap Report 2015 benchmarks national gender gaps of […]

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Local community asks for government backing for its efforts to help those arriving from Iraq.  The Armenian government needs to provide more help for Yezidi refugees seeking sanctuary […]

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“This year, I wish to emphasize the importance of ensuring that the commitments made by the international community to the world’s children are extended to a group of […]

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