Announcement on the Decision Made by the Chamber of Advocates on 29.05.2018

We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations are expressing our concern on the information published on the official webpage of the RA Chamber of Advocates on May 29 of 2018, according to which “On May 29 of 2018, a competition on the selection of a candidate for the council, according to which “By the decision N 224-A […]

Announcement on the draft Labour code

We, the undersigned civil society organizations are expressing our concern over the RA Draft Law on “Making Amendments and Supplements to the RA Draft Labor Code” elaborated by the RA Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In performance to the command of the previous Government, back in 2017 a draft law was elaborated, which, as […]

The Civil Society Discusses the Issue of Political Prisoners

There have been and there are political prisoners, but there should be no more political prisoners: this was the collective statement issued by the human rights defender, advocates, civil society representatives within the scope of the discussion on the status of the political prisoners and their possible release. Expert David Khachatryan presented the cases of […]

Problem of political prisoners and independence of judiciary

The discussion on the topic “The Issue of the Political Prisoners and the Court Independence” took place on May 29 of 2018. During the discussion, Haykuhi Harutyunyan, the President of the “Protection of Rights without Borders” NGO presented the assessments of PACE of the status of political prisoners. According to H. Harutyunyan, the Parliamentary Assembly […]

The visit of the PACE Monitoring Committee to Armenia

Giuseppe Galati and Bas Klen, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Group Co-Rapporteurs for Armenia had a visit to Armenia within the period of May 23-24 of 2018. The aim of the visit was to discuss the latest political progressions in Armenia, the priorities of the newly formed Government, as well as […]