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Children From Gyumri Urge Environment Preservation
In one of Gyumri’s playgrounds the garbage took the unhappy smiley face till the children removed it, and with planting flowers transformed it into a happy smiley face. This was the plot of an environmental commercial,...
The work with juveniles in the Penitentiary institution
On July 4th Civil Society Institute NGO organized a workshop to present the main issues revealed during the research of the social-psychological work conducted with juveniles and of the educational process in «Abovyan»...
Parents pay for free of charge medical services
Although health care for children with disabilities is free of charge in Armenia, some of the parents in Kapan pay 5-600 thousand AMD for treatment. This data was published in the report of the World Vision Armenia...
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture will visit Armenia
UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Armenia in 2013, said to www. hra.am member of the SPT, President of the Civil Society Institute NGO Arman Danielyan. The visit will have an advisory nature...
No one is accused in the cases of hindrance to the professional activities of journalists on May 6
In the three criminal cases instituted on the cases of hindrance to the professional activities of journalists in Gyumri on the day of Parliamentary Elections there are no suspects and no one is arrested so far, nobody...
No charges are brought within one and a half month
In the criminal case instituted on the fact of hindering to the professional activities of the RFE/RL “Azatutyun” radio station reporter Elina Chilingaryan on May 6, the day of Parliamentary Elections under the Article...
Grassroots Voice for Human Rights Mobilization
“In the far societies the notions about human rights are very weak; people don’t know their rights and don’t know who to apply to restore them. Thus, this training was very important; the knowledge that we got from it...
Mass media were neutral, but one-sided and unsatisfactory
Souren Deheryan, president of Journalists for Future NGO believes that publications containing positive or negative remarks during election period can affect voters’ opinion and, therefore, election outcome. He declared...
When the victim is becoming a defendant
On June 12 a criminal case has been instituted against the observer of the Helsinki Association Arman Veziryan under the Article 118 of the RA Criminal Code (battery or committal of other violent actions). A preventive...
11 school age children have been deprived of the right to education
In schools of Vardenis region in Gegharkunik marz there is a tradition of money collection, which is not done in a transparent way. This was declared on 5 May at the presentation-discussion of the report “Protection of...