Armenia and Switzerland to fight together against domestic violence
16:28, 22 June, 2012
YEREVAN, JUNE 22, ARMENPRESS: Human Right Defender of Armenia Karen
Andreasyan and ambassador of Switzerland to Armenia Konstantin
Obolensky on June 22 signed memorandum of cooperation. Armenpress
reports that before the signing the memorandum Andreasyan mentioned
that he paid attention to issues relating the violations of rights of
each citizen.
`There are issues about which everybody speaks but there are some
which are avoided to be sounded. The violence against women and
children are among them’ said Andreasyan. In his words those issues
must be sounded among the society, everybody must be informed about
their rights, provided with psychological and informational support. A
pilot program with duration of six months will be implemented after
the signing of the memorandum. A clip will be shown with help of which
women and children will be informed about the opportunity to apply to
the office of Human Right Defender.
Ambassador Obolensky said that domestic violence is met all over the
world: it can be in poor and rich families, educated and non-educated
societies. He informed that during 20-25 years there had been made
efforts in that direction in Switzerland. `We have discussed this
program which will be implemented in near future. I hope that it will
help all suffered people’ mentioned the ambassador. He highlighted
that the program is implemented not only in the capital but also in
regions.