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This report outlines the activities and findings of the “Court Monitoring and Fostering Legal Awareness for Active Citizenship in Syunik” project, implemented in real from May to November 2024 by the Helsinki Association for Human Rights (HAHR) within the framework of the Resilient Syunik Team Europe initiative, implemented together with the Solidarity Fund PL and supported by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ development cooperation. The report focuses on detailing the analysis of data collected via the online Court Monitoring Form, completed by young court monitors after each public…

Since June 2024, the “Helsinki Association” human rights NGO has initiated the participation of young people interested in human rights, fair trial issues, and monitoring of courts in the “Court Monitoring and Fostering Legal Awareness for Active Citizenship in Syunik” project. The goal of the project is to utilize civil oversight of court proceedings to enhance the civic participation in Syunik region and functionality of judicial and law enforcement institutions in Armenia. In addition, the project will aim: To introduce law enforcement collaboration practices and human rights ack…

Since June 2024, the “Helsinki Association” human rights NGO has initiated the participation of young people interested in human rights, fair trial issues, and monitoring of courts in the “Court Monitoring and Fostering Legal Awareness for Active Citizenship in Syunik” project. The goal of the project is to utilize civil oversight of court proceedings to enhance the civic participation in Syunik region and functionality of judicial and law enforcement institutions in Armenia. In addition, the project will aim: To introduce law enforcement collaboration practices and human rights ack…

Since June 2024, the “Helsinki Association” human rights NGO has initiated the participation of young people interested in human rights, fair trial issues, and monitoring of courts in the “Court Monitoring and Fostering Legal Awareness for Active Citizenship in Syunik” project. The goal of the project is to utilize civil oversight of court proceedings to enhance the civic participation in Syunik region and functionality of judicial and law enforcement institutions in Armenia. In addition, the project will aim: To introduce law enforcement collaboration practices and human rights ack…

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“Helsinki Association” human rights defender NGO invites high school and university students interested in human rights, fair trial and court monitoring issues to participate in “Towards transparent judiciary and respecting human rights: multiplying effects to Syunik region in Armenia” project. The project aims: to initiate in Syunik region of Armenia (in particular, in the cities of Kapan and Goris) investing and disseminating the results and good experiences of the court monitoring and judicial reforms projects implemented in involvement with young people in Yerevan, Shirak and Lo…

In April-July 2022, the “Helsinki Association” human rights NGO implemented the “Towards an independent and transparent judiciary in Armenia” project. The project was aimed at increasing the accessibility of information on the activities of the judicial institutions through the use of a tried-and-tested court monitoring mechanism and by publicizing the results obtained through it, to provide a comparative analysis of the  activities of the system between 2021 and 2022 and proposals for reforms. The project is co-financed by the Polish development cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign…

The purpose of this report is to highlight the problems that hinder the effective operation of the judicial system and to provide applicable suggestions for reforms and problem solutions. The report is based on a comparative analysis of access to information on the activities of the judicial system in the Republic of Armenia between 2021-2022. It also provides certain concerns of international and local organizations regarding the independence, impartiality, transparency and public access of the judicial system, as well as the low level of public trust in the system, among other existing…

Helsinki Association for Human Rights launches “Towards an independent and transparent judiciary in Armenia” project from April 1, 2022. The project aims at increasing the accessibility of comparative information of judicial institutions and society about the quality of functioning of the courts in Armenia as a result of improved monitoring mechanism and a new report on findings which will include a comparative analysis between 2021-2022 years and new proposals for reform. The project is in fact a logical continuation of “Legally educated young citizens as guardians of an independent and…