CHILDREN ARE PROTECTED IN ARMENIA, SPECIALISTS CONSIDER

Noyan Tapan
Jun 1 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 1, NOYAN TAPAN. An event under the title “No to Violence
Towards Children” dedicated to the International day of Children’s
Protection was held on June 1 at Khnko Aper library on the initiative
of the Council of Europe Information Office in Armenia and The Future
is Yours charity organization. The pupils of Yerevan special boarding
school N 3 performed the staging of Hovhannes Tumanian’s “The End of
the Evil” tale, an exhibition of 10-15-year-old children’s works on
the subject “Violence Towards Children with Children’s Eyes” opened
during the event. As Narine Sargsian, Chairwoman of The Future is Yours
NGO, said, violence towards children exists everywhere independent on
social, national or ethnic belonging. She mentioned that children are
protected in Armenia. However, according to her, some work should be
done in order to inform children about their rights for them to be able
to express their opinion when decisions regarding them are made. Susan
Marukhanian, Director of the Council of Europe Information Office
in Armenia, mentioned that the event is held within the framework
of the three-year program “Let’s Build Europe for Children and With
Children.” According to her, the goal of the Council of Europe program
is to help the member-states to overcome the difficulties they are
faced with on the way of fulfilment of the commitments in this sphere.

According to S.Marukhanian, it is expected that children’s
participation during the program’s implementation will help to work
out new models of children’s participation at the local, national
and European levels and models of consultations with them.