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Draft Constitution in Internet
On July 26 the draft Constitution of RA (Armenian version) was placed in the Armenian Parliament web-site. The whole text is available here.
Council Of Europe Approves Armenian Constitutional Changes
Legal experts from the Council of Europe announced on Friday their crucial approval of a raft of constitutional amendments proposed by the Armenian authorities and urged the opposition to strive for their passage at a...
Closed Armenian TV Forced Out Of Yerevan Offices
Armenia’s leading independent television station that was controversially pulled off the air three years ago faced a complete halt of its activities on Wednesday as it was forced to begin vacating its government-owned...
Support for OPCAT in the South Caucasus
The APT recently returned from the South Caucasus after taking part in a series of three round-table discussions on torture prevention and the OPCAT in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. The capitals Yerevan, Tbilisi and...
The Second Seminar within the Framework of Campaign for the Signing, Ratification and Implementation of the OPCAT in Armenia
Civil Society Institute in cooperation with Penal Reform International held the second seminar, in the range of seminars planned within the frames of the project “Campaign for the Signing, Ratification and...
Opposition Sets Conditions For Constitutional Reform Support
Armenia’s largest opposition alliance listed on Friday three conditions for its crucial support of President Robert Kocharian’s draft constitutional amendments and warned that failure to accept them would scuttle the...
Kocharian’s Constitutional Draft Criticized By Media Groups
Armenia’s leading media associations have criticized additional constitutional amendments put forward by the authorities, saying that they would fail to ensure the independence of a powerful state body that regulates...
Ombudsman’s Letter to RA President
RA Human Rights Defender Larisa Alaverdyan sent a letter to Armenian President Robert Kocharyan. The letter says, in part: “The RA Ombudsman considers that presently a number of operating laws contain clauses, whose...
Armenian Opposition Rejects Revised Constitutional Amendments
Armenia’s largest opposition alliance dealt a serious blow to efforts to build broad-based political support for President Robert Kocharian’s constitutional reform on Monday, rejecting his newly revised draft amendments...
Municipality for Citizens, But Not Citizens for Municipality: Polish Anti-Corruptioner
"Municipality for citizens, but not citizens for municipality" should become a main motto for fight against corruption in the sphere of local self-governmental bodies, representative of a Polish public organization Adam...