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Human Rights Day in Armenia
12/10/09

On 10th December 2009 the Office of Human Rights Defender of Armenia (HRDO), has organized a round-table discussion titled “The Human Rights Protection in Armenia: Achievements and Challenges” which was dedicted to the Human Rights Day. The round table was organized with the assistance of the UN Office in Armenia, OSCE Office in Yerevan and the European Commission Delegation to Armenia. The main goal of the round-table more >

Speech of RA Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan on 23.10.2009 Press- Conference
10/23/09

1. Labor abuse Nowadays it is widespread to talk about patriotism and statehood, and present ideas about means and ways of state development. I am confident that the main criteria that is capable of assessing the real attitude towards state and statehood is the attitude towards a human being. Many times we raised the problem of civil, political rights and freedoms; today let's turn to social-economic rights. Today from the standpoint of labor rights the Republic of Armenia faces the labor abuse principle. Employers that consider a citizen as a mean of gaining super-profits by various ways of violation of the employers’ rights, bears the same attitude towards the State. To substantiate the abovementioned more >

Job announcement
09/16/09

Counterpart International’s Armenia Representation Announces Vacancy for the Position of Ad hoc Experts

 FOE announcement

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July 10, 2009 Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Subjects of the Press Conference
07/10/09

During period from January 01 2009 to June 30 2009 Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia received 1833 complaints, 597 of which were in writing. During the same period in 2008 Defender received 1768 complaints with 575 of them in writing form. The number of complaints apparently increased. Statistics of complaints against state and local self government bodies more >