"AGAINST LEGAL WILFULNESS" ORGANIZATION TO BE ENGAGED IN CASES OF
VIOLATION OF LABOUR AND PROPERTY RIGHTS AS WELL

YEREVAN, MARCH 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Against Legal Wilfulness"
organization starts struggle against violations of the labour and
property rights, a completely new direction for it. As Larisa
Alaverdian, the Executive Director of the organization, first
Ombudsperson mentioned in the interview to the Noyan Tapan
correspondent, the program is implemented with the grant given by the
Government of Netherlands, with the assistance of the Open Society
Institute. The program implementation will last 3 years. She
mentioned that issues of the social labour and property rights are not
paid attention in Armenia: it is enough to mention that there are the
number of organizations engaged in the person’s civil rights, but
there are only few organizations engaged in social issues. In
L.Alaverdian’s words, free trade relations are not formed in Armenia,
monopolies quickly develop what deepens such negative phenomena as
corruption and social polarization. In L.Alaverdian’s opinion,
national programs on overcoming poverty and anti-corruption struggle
are dangered just by it. The "Against Legal Wilfulness" public
organization had meetings at the preparatory stage of the
above-mentioned program with heads of the RA State Labour Inspection
and "State Employment Service" agency. L.Alaverdian hopes that
cooperation with that structure will give positive results. In his
words, the great part of citizens turning with issues of violation of
the labour right is not simply aware which state bodies are engaged in
issues relating to the labour right. "The public organization’s duty
is to build a bridge, make closer and increase confidence towards
state bodies," Larisa Alaverdian said, emphasizing that she expects if
not quick but deep changes. Responding the question if the candidate,
registered as No2 in the proportional list of the "Zharangutiun"
(Heritage) party for the coming parliamentary elections, finds that
the mentioned sphere needs legislative improvement, L.Alaverdian
mentioned that when agreeing to be involved in the party list she took
into consideration that the human rights and then improvement of the
legislative field as well, starting from the constitution, are
attached importance in its program.