18/01/2023
Yerevan, Armenia
The tutored online course on the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) General Policy Recommendation (GPR) No. 15 on combating hate speech was launched, with the participation of 18 judges and prosecutors in Armenia. The course hosted by the Council of Europe’s HELP...
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19/01/2023
PRESIDENCY OF THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS, STRASBOURG
Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, has made the following statement: “I am concerned about the increasingly precarious humanitarian situation of people living in Nagorno-Karabakh as a...
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21/12/2022
Council of Europe Office in Yerevan
With Council of Europe support and direct involvement of the Armenian Scientific Association of Psychologists NGO, the Abovyan penitentiary institution piloted a therapeutic programme from September to December 2022. The goal of the programme is to improve mental health care in the penitentiary...
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20/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
On 15 December 2022, certificates were awarded to 16 representatives of the Probation Service of Armenia for successfully completing the HELP course on “Alternative measures to Detention”. The participants appreciated this e-learning course and the possibility to deepen their knowledge...
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20/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
The Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan together with the Deputy Minister of Justice took part in the launching of the E-probation management system. The system that was set up with the Council of Europe’s support will allow the probation officers to easily work with data and...
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14/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
On 14 December 2022 the regional EU/Council of Europe anti-discrimination project, part of the Partnership for Good Governance joined the Human Rights Defenders office of Republic of Armenia (HRDO), in a discussion focused on Combating discrimination based on disability and health of the person....
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14/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
Successful litigation at the European Court of Human Rights is not an easy task and requires from legal professionals some fundamental knowledge about the peculiarities of the application to the Court. Publication of the Armenian version of the book Taking a Case to the European Court of Human...
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14/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
The Council of Europe in co-operation with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia launched the telemedicine and electronic medical system for prison healthcare. Martina Schmidt, the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan and Arpine Sargsyan, Deputy Minister of Justice of the...
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09/12/2022
Yerevan, Armenia
On 9 December 2022, the Council of Europe brought together representatives of Armenian state institutions and key professionals to mark the successful completion of the project “The Path towards Armenia's Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence...
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9-10/12/2022
Hankavan, Armenia
On 9 and 10 December 2022, the representatives from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Justice, the Human Rights Defender’s office Representation of Armenia on International Legal matters, the Guardianship and Trusteeship bodies, international and national...
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