Point of View

Human Rights in Armenia in 2012: Torture and Right to Fair Trial
No progress was registered in the struggle against torture In Armenia no significant progress was registered in regard...
Human Rights in Armenia 2012: Army and Electoral Right
The death roll  in the army does not decline in circumstances of cease -fire “Nothing changes in the army system. We...
Human Rights in Armenia in 2012: Women, Children, and Persons with Disabilities
The issue is not the law but the practice In the field of women's rights the biggest achievement of 2012 was the focus...
Human Rights in Armenia 2012: right to property, freedom of speech and environmental issues
There is no progress made in the protection of the right to property Although the number of victims of expropriation...
Juvenile offender can change if given an opportunity, says the expert
The Abovyan Rehabilitation Centre, set up by the Fund for Armenian Relief's (FAR)“Children support centre” has been...
The Police finds there are unrealistic provisions in the law
On November 13 the RA Ministry on Labour and Social Affairs organized the public discussion to present the draft law “...
New pension system: will it guarantee decent old ages or...?
In 2011 Armenia shifted to the voluntary accumulation pension system, which actually does not work. In 2014 the system...
The number of ECHR decisions against Armenia increases: what is the reason and who is responsible?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) makes decisions one after another against Armenia. According to lawyers, the...
Most of public defenders in regions need to be replaced
Very often a part of them undertakes a prosecutor’s role The Public Defenders’ Office (PDO) was established in 2006 in...
Medication and services are expensive, privileges are not accessible
“Salvard” rural community development foundation and “Partnership and Learning” NGO have conducted the research in...