ACTIVITIES
Court of Cassation Overturns Decision in Soldier Death Case After Peace Dialogue NGO Appeal
Following multiple rejected appeals by the Prosecutor’s Office, the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Gegharkunik Marz, and the Criminal Court of Appeal, Peace Dialogue NGO’s special appeal to the Court of Cassation was accepted on January 31, 2023. The Court of Cassation’s recent ruling annulled the 2022 decision of the Criminal Court of Appeal, upholding the victim’s legal successor’s complaint and highlighting procedural violations during the investigation.
Strengthening Security Sector Reform in Armenia: A Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Roundtable Dialogue
Armenia in Focus: Navigating the Eastern Partnership, Regional Security, and European Integration
“…Despite 58% of the Armenian population favoring EU membership, EU-Armenia relations remain vulnerable to Russian influence…”
Open Narratives: Series of workshops for young people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh
Since February Peace Dialogue NGO has been conducting a series of workshops involving young participants from Nagorno-Karabakh who found a temporary or permanent residence in Lori region of Armenia. One of the main directions of the meetings is workshopping documentary photography, with the aim of developing young participants’ photography skills which will help them to create photo stories about their daily routine, hobbies, and challenges, thus bringing into effect their creative ideas.
Legal assistance to conscripts
Peace Dialogue NGO announces its readiness to support protection of conscripts’ rights during 2020 winter conscription for the purpose of avoiding issues raised in the process of ensuring comprehensiveness, completeness, and objectivity of the significant factual circumstances with regard to conscripts’ health condition in the course of 2020 winter conscription.
In order to exclude possible violations of their rights, conscripts can apply to Peace Dialogue NGO to be provided with legal consulting or other necessary professional assistance.
If necessary, please, contact us by email [email protected] or make a phone call by phone numbers +374 (55) 820 632, +374 (77) 188 138 or +374 (99) 888 120.
Initiatives Aimed at Raising and Solving Women’s Issues will be Implemented in Armenian Regions of Lori and Tavush
During the training, the participants discussed manifold women’s rights issues existing in their regions as well as addressed the challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on women and girls in the South Caucasus. Besides, the participants were introduced to a number of effective methods and tools for identifying women’s issues and carrying out a root cause analysis in the respective regions.
Public Group Formed to Monitor activities of Armenian Ministry of Defense
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).
Intercultural Exchange: Journalism Without Borders
From 21-24 July 2020, Peace Dialogue NGO in collaboration with its partners Une Terre Culturelle Association and German-French Youth Office implemented an intercultural exchange project entitled Journalism without Borders which was aimed at introducing young people from Armenia, France and Germany to the history of journalism and promoting their active participation in community life through capacity building with the help of democratic tools.
The participants were involved in the activities of the three-day workshop in two parallel formats: working separately in national teams and working jointly within the international team consisting of the representatives of the three countries via online tools.
Monitoring of the Human Rights Situation in the Armenian Armed Forces and the Actions of the Ministry of Defense in the scope of the HRAP 2020-2022
Below, we introduce the progress report on monitoring of the defense sector-related actions in the scope of the HRAP 2020-2022, in which we sum up the research results of the implemented activities in the period of January-June 2020 for the promotion of the rights to life, freedom from torture, and fair trial in the RA Armed Forces.
Working meeting at the National Assembly
On 4 June 2020, the representatives of the National Assembly’s Standing Committees on Defense and Security and Protection on Human Rights and Public Affairs hosted the staff of Peace Dialogue NGO’s project called Civil Society Support for Democratic Oversight Processes of Human Rights Conditions in the Armenian Army.
