On
October 27, the Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan received Anne-Laurence
Petel, a member of the French National Assembly, co-chairman of the
French-Armenian Parliamentary Friendship Group and Vladimir Vardanyan, the Head
of the France-Armenia Friendship Group of the National Assembly of the Republic
of Armenia and the Chairman of the Standing Committee on State and Legal
Affairs.
During
the meeting, Anahit Manasyan presented issues related to the protection of the
rights of forcibly displaced persons from Nagorno Karabakh, referred to the
fact-finding activities conducted by her personally and the staff of the
Defender's office, during which information about deaths, tortures, disrespect
of bodies, mutilations and ill-treatment of civilians and other cases
prohibited by international law as a result of Azerbaijani aggression was
received.
The
aforementioned information was included in the ad hoc report of the Human
Rights Defender, which along with the confidential section proving the authenticity
of the information was the first to be presented by the Defender to
international organizations and actors with a mandate to protect human rights,
including the International Court of Justice of the United Nations, as a record
delineating the cases of human rights violations.
Anahit
Manasyan presented the issues of human rights protection caused by the border
security of the Republic of Armenia, the results of the fact-finding activities
conducted in various settlements, including Yeraskh community, stressing that
the situation of human rights protection in the border settlements as a result
of Azerbaijani aggression is quite concerning.
The
Defender also referred to the priorities of the activities of the Defender’s
office: she emphasized the importance of the activities carried out in the
direction of protecting the rights of children, women and persons with
disabilities, the determination to continue the work on the fight against
intolerance, discrimination and hate speech.
In
their turn, Anne-Laurence Petel and Vladimir Vardanyan expressed gratitude for
the reception, highly appreciating the work of the Human Rights Defender's
office in the implementation of the high mission of human rights protection.
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