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14.11.2022
International Document on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Debated
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In 2007, the Republic of Armenia signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol, but on October 22, 2010 ratified only the Convention.

The Optional Protocol is one of the monitoring mechanism of the Convention, and it solves issues sufficiently not being regulated by the Convention. The RA Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Tatevik Stepanyan.

“The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ensures the monitoring, and its members are independent experts. The Committee discussed the reports being regularly presented by the participant states and works on their bases with the states,” the rapporteur underlined.

According to Deputy Minister, the ratification of the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will allow strengthening the cooperation with the UN Committee on Armenia and on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, raising the international authority of the Republic of Armenia in the sphere of human rights.

The issue was debated at the extraordinary sitting of the Standing Committee on Labor and Social Affairs chaired by Heriknaz Tigranyan on November 14 and was endorsed.


14.11.2022
American Model of the Independent Living Service of Persons with Disabilities Debated
On November 14, at the NA Standing Committee on Labor and Social Affairs a working discussion was held on the American model of the Independent Living Service (ILC) and the preconditions of its localization in the Republic of Armenia. The President of the NGO Agate Rights Defense Center for Women wi...

14.11.2022
Workshop on the Platform of RA NA and U.S. Congress Staffs
The experience and the knowledge that the U.S. Congress has in the research area is interesting for the Expertise and Analytical Department RA National Assembly. This is an original start for the relations, which are formed also on the platform of the staffs between the National Assembly and the U.S...

14.11.2022
31 Items to Be Included in Draft Agenda of NA Regular Sittings
On November 14, the sitting of the National Assembly Council presided over by Alen Simonyan was held.The draft agendas on Making Addenda to the agenda of the fourth session of the eighth convocation of the National Assembly and the regular sittings to be convened on November 15 were debated and appr...

14.11.2022
Suren Papikyan: After 6 Months of Compulsory Military Service the Conscript Soldier Will Have a Possibility of Turning into Contract Military Service
The draft proposes to raise the attractiveness and interest of turning into contractual military service in accordance with the programme for 2021-2026, as well to create preconditions for the development of the professional contractual military service: the RA Minister of Defense Suren Papikyan sai...



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