Business meeting with Armenian and Georgian monitors
00:00, February 21, 2011 | Press Release | PoliceOn February 16, 2011, a business meeting was held in Yerevan with Armenian monitors who conducted human rights monitoring in police-citizen relations within the framework of the project on “Training and Networking for Young Human Rights Activists”.
On January 30, 2011 human rights monitoring on police-citizen relations, being simultaneously conducted in Armenia, Georgia, and South Ossetia, was over. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the implemented activities and the problems that arose during monitoring. Later, the monitors were presented with the activities planned for the 2011 project.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the monitors were granted certificates to verify their participation in monitoring from October 1, 2010 to January 30, 2011.
On February 18, 2011, a similar meeting was held in Tbilisi with the participants of the project who conducted monitoring in Georgia. The problems that arose during their monitoring and the measures taken by the participants directed towards overcoming these obstacles were discussed at the meeting. Furthermore, issues regarding the monitoring tools as well as solutions to improvement of the tools, to make them more clear and applicable, were discussed.
The Georgian participants were granted certificates as well. At the end of the meeting, the monitors expressed their gratitude towards the coordinator of the project and to the whole staff.
“Training and Networking for Young Human Rights Activists” is implemented with the financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) non-governmental organization.