Ombudsman of Armenia and Head of UNICEF Yerevan Office discussed  protection of children`s rights of border communities

ArmInfo.RA Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan at the meeting with head of the UNICEF Office in Armenian Christine Weigand highly appreciated the active  cooperation with the Organization in the field of protecting the  rights of children.

As reported by the press service of the RA Ombudsman, during the  meeting they discussed the situation with the protection of the  rights of children in communities that have become border ones due to  the recent war, especially issues related to the implementation of  the right to education.

Tatoyan spoke about violations of children's rights on the  Goris-Kapan road due to illegal border and customs control points of  Azerbaijan, in particular, violation of the right to education. He  noted that in some parts of the Syunik region, the Azerbaijani armed  forces are deployed in close proximity to schools, which is  absolutely unacceptable and contradicts international requirements  for the protection of children's rights.

The situation with the realization of children's rights in  institutions for the care and protection of children when returning  from institutions to the family was separately mentioned.

Further cooperation between the two institutions in the field of  child protection, implementation of joint programs for the protection  of children, including the preparation of an extraordinary public  report on the status of implementation by the Republic of Armenia of  its obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child  and its protocols was emphasized.