On
March 5, the Human Rights Defender Anahit Manasyan met with the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, within the framework
of her working visit to Strasbourg.
The
Defender presented issues related to the protection of the rights of people
forcibly displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh, referred to the fact-finding
activities carried out by her personally and by her staff, during which
information was obtained about death, torture, disrespect of bodies, mutilation
and ill-treatment of civilians, prohibited by international law. The mentioned
information was included in the ad hoc report of the Human Rights Defender,
which was presented by the Defender to the international organizations and actors
with the mandate of human rights protection, with the confidetial section
proving the authenticity of the information.
During
the meeting, inter alia, Anahit Manasyan referred to the protection of women's
rights, the prevention of domestic violence, the need to ratify the Istanbul
Convention, the details of the implementation of the human rights protection
program in the field of biomedicine, including the issue of ratifying the
Oviedo Convention by Armenia.
The
Defender presented the activities carried out in the fields of discrimination,
intolerance, fight against hate speech, the right to freedom of assembly and in
a number of other areas.
At
the end of the meeting, the parties highly appreciated the level of long-term
and effective cooperation between the Defender's Office and the Council of
Europe in the field of human rights protection and outlined directions for
expanding cooperation.
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