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The monitoring group will oversee the activities of the Armenian Ministry of Defense in the scope of the Action Plan 2020-2022 deriving from the National Strategy on Human Rights Protection.
On 8-10 August 2020, Peace Dialogue NGO conducted a-three-day training entitled CIVIL SOCIETY SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRATIC OVERSIGHT PROCESSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONDITIONS IN THE ARMENIAN ARMY. The meeting was aimed at building capacity of the representatives from civil society organizations operating in the Republic of Armenia’s regions and Yerevan city in the field of human rights monitoring, thus seeking to establish a public group for monitoring the defense sector-related activities in the scope of the Action Plan 2020-2022 deriving from the National Strategy on Human Rights Protection (HRAP 2020-2022).
With the involvement of expert, LL.D. Armen Grigoryan, the 17 participants of the training were introduced the monitoring and evaluation methodology of the HRAP 2020-2022, as well as effective tools for collecting information from the stakeholders on the implementation of the actions outlined in the plan and documenting cases of human rights violation.
On the last day of the training, the participants prepared the monitoring plan of the defense-related actions in the scope of the Human Rights Action Plan for the year of 2020. The monitoring activities are launching immediately after the training. Until the end of 2020, the monitoring group will monitor eight actions to be executed by the Ministry of Defense with regard to the rights to life, freedom from torture, and fair trial.
The implementation of the aforementioned event as well as the monitoring of the Armenian MoD’s actions in the scope of Human Rights Action Plan 2020-2022 is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office (through the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Armenia) and Open Society Foundations – Armenia.
