CIVIC ACTION CENTER MARKED ITS FIFTH BIRTHDAY

KarabakhOpen
22-10-2007 15:23:07

The Civic Action Center NGO was set up in October 2002. Till recently
one of the main strands of the NGO was the monitoring of penitentiaries
of NKR. The NGO monitored the penitentiaries of NKR from April 2003
to June 2007 with the authorization of the NKR government.

The chair of the CAC told this in a briefing. According to him,
the CAC reported the results of the monitoring to the CoE, the OSCE,
the UN Human Rights Council, the ICRC, Amnesty International, Penal
Reform International, the International Committee Against Torture,
other international and human rights organizations.

Currently the CAC s implementing a program of backing of former inmates
and their families. The aim of the project is to foster reintegration
of former inmates in the society and to support their families morally
and psychologically. The CAC is also involved in the search for the
missing in the area of the Karabakh conflict, helps former POWs and
hostages solve their social and economic problems.

In February-March 2005 the NGO implemented a program of rehabilitation
of the children of the missing people, POWs and hostages. The
organization held computer classes, lectures on tolerance and
recreation with an educational program for these children. The
psychologist of the NGO held individual and group therapy for those
children.