Today the Human Rights
Defender of Armenia Mr. Arman Tatoyan received the newly appointed Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Norway to Armenia H.E. Ms.
Helene Sand Andresen.
Mr. Arman Tatoyan
congratulated the Ambassador for assuming this important mission.
During the meeting, the
Defender presented evidence to the Ambassador which confirm the violations of
the rights of the border residents of Armenia by the Azerbaijani armed forces.
The Defender noted that
the current border situation should be viewed from the perspective of human
rights that they would not become secondary and the opportunities of the state
to protect them do not become limited; the Defender underlined that human
rights and security complement and do not contradict each other.
The Human Rights Defender
of Armenia detailed that due to the unlawful actions of Azerbaijan, people were
deprived of their houses, lands, grasslands, which belonged to them even during
the Soviet times, as a result of which not only social but also serious
security problems have arisen
The Defender noted that
the main reason and source of the violations of the rights of the Armenian
borders residents by the Azerbaijani armed forces is the policy of Armenophobia
and enmity of the Azerbaijani authorities, which has reached levels of fascism,
especially after the war.
The Human Rights Defender
stressed that the Armenian civilians and servicemen still held in Azerbaijan
are captives and should be freed and return to their homeland immediately
without any political or other preconditions; the Azerbaijani authorities are
artificially protracting and politicizing the issue, grossly violating the
rights of the captives and their families, causing them sufferings and
increasing tensions in the society.
During the meeting,
issues related to the protection of women's rights were discussed, including
the awareness-raising campaigns conducted by the Human Rights Defender which
are aimed at breaking stereotypes, and issues related to the development of
capacities of the journalists on the specifics of covering domestic violence
cases, etc.
The Human Rights Defender
stressed that during the restrictions of the state of emergency declared to combat
new coronavirus (COVID-19), a working group was set up in the Office of the
Defender to deal with issues related to the protection of women, children's
rights and the prevention of domestic violence. The reason was the fact that
analysis of the applications to the Office demonstrated that during that period
the risk of violence against women, children, and older persons had increases,
conditioned by the guidelines issued to combat the pandemic worldwide
(isolation, not going to work, social issues as a side effect of the measures
taken, etc.).
During the meeting, the
parties reached an agreement to expand the scope of cooperation.
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