RA Criminal Policy Reform Proposals in the Context of Human Rights Project

Beginning November 1, 2011 Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor is implementing an RA Criminal Policy Reform Proposals in the Context of Human Rights Project funded by Counterpart International Armenia.

The goal of the project is, as a result of legislative or practice changes, to promote the reforms of the criminal policy, which can be accomplished through a fundamental analysis of the problems in the field of human rights and through revealing the causes of their violations. 

The main objectives of the project are: 

• Conducting a research on the human  rights violations (HRV)

• Discovering the legislative omissions and practical issues leading to HRV 

• Providing recommendations for eliminating the causes of HRV 

• Conducting court procedures regarding HRV 

• Collecting information about cases connected with the right to life from lawyers practicing in the RA territory

• Summarizing information about the right to life at closed and semi-closed institutions operating in the RA territory 

• Preparing and publishing a manual on “The Right to Life in the RA after the Elimination of Death Penalty”  

The duration of the project is 8 months.

The expected outputs of the project are:

• An analysis of the causes of the most frequently violated rights 

• Recommendations for correcting those causes

• Case-laws for improving the target area

• A manual on “The Right to Life in the RA after the Elimination of Death Penalty”.