How to overcome psychological fatigue and not allow it to deepen. Psychologist Mari Amirkhanyan will speak about it on Wednesday, July 8, at 20:00 (Yerevan time) during the live broadcast on YouTube channel of “Veles” NGO (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCidgmZ2ZOSdXHait4OGnLtA)

Before and during the live broadcast, you can send your questions that concern you on the mentioned topic and the specialist will address them.

#HelpLineArmenia

Lilit Arakelyan is one of the psychologists of “Psychological Help Center for Citizens Impacted by COVID-19” project.

You can contact her via the following cell number +37494 707373

http://shorturl.at/koN27 #HelplineArmenia[:]

We are pleased to announce that Veles Human Rights NGO, with the support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, is launching the “Psychological Help Center for Citizens Impacted by COVID-19” project which will run until December 2020.

Within the framework of the program, a group of psychologists will provide free remote psychological support to our compatriots living in and outside of Armenia who found themselves in difficult social and psychological conditions during COVID-19 pandemic. Particular attention will be paid to the representatives of vulnerable groups children (who can apply to us independently or through parents), adolescents, domestic violence victims, LGBTI, people with addiction.

Within the framework of the program, online psychotherapy sessions will be organized for the general public. Follow the pages of “Veles” NGO on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to be informed about the work of the Psychological Center and to receive free psychological support.

Hotline 08000-1313

+37433 801380 (Whats App, Viber, Telegram)

+37441 403513

+37498 615663

You can call directly to our psychologists

Artur Yeghiazaryan (+37455 302801)

Mari Amirkhanyan (+37455 412860)

Lilit Arakelyan (+37494 707373)

Gayane Simonyan (+37491 500531)

Irina Zhamharyan(+37494 400601)

Anahit Haykazuni (+37496 364990)

Veles Human Rights NGO is looking for psychologists who will provide psychological support to mental health and well-being to citizens living  in Armenia  and abroad  impacted by COVID-19.

The work starts on June 25.

Job status: contractual.

Payment: negotiable.

The application deadline: June 10.

Job Description

Psychologists telehealth counselling will provide psychological services to citizens affected by COVID-19 pandemic through telephone calls, video calling applications, and other means of online communication. Psychologists will also conduct online psychological sessions for citizens twice a month via live Facebook broadcast.

Required qualifications ․

Higher education of psychologist qualification,

At least 2 years of work experience,

Excellent knowledge of Armenian,

Excellent oral communication skills,

Ability to use telecommunications,

Experience working with at least one of the following groups:

Children, adolescents, domestic violence victims, LGBTI people, addicts.

Application procedure․

Interested candidates should send their CVs and cover letters (maximum half a page) to info@veles.am  by June 10, indicating “psychologist’s work” in the subject line of the letter. Selected applicants will be contacted via mobile phone number.

The program will be implemented in June-December 2020 with the support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.

We are pleased to announce that Veles Human Rights NGO, with the support of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, is launching the “Psychological Help Center for Citizens Impacted by COVID-19” project which will run until December 2020.

Within the framework of the program, a group of psychologists and a clergyman will provide free remote psychological support to our compatriots living in and outside of Armenia who found themselves in difficult social and psychological conditions during COVID-19 pandemic. Particular attention will be paid to the representatives of vulnerable groups children (who can apply to us independently or through parents), adolescents, domestic violence victims, LGBTI,  people with addiction.

Within the framework of the program, online psychotherapy sessions will be organized for the general public.

Follow the pages of “Veles” NGO on Facebook, Twitter  and YouTube to be informed about the work of the Psychological Center and to receive free psychological support.

Heads of all Law Enforcement Agencies must answer for the Deaths of Soldiers: Marina Poghosyan

https://iravaban.net/en/257700.html

“Veles” NGO’s Anti-Corruption blog launches a new project – “Anti-Corruption Mic” which will give an opportunity to all citizens to speak up about injustice that happened to them because of corruptness of state organs and officials. Citizens will speak in front of a camera and appeal to law enforcement bodies.

To be part of “Anti-Corruption Mic” call us (+37410)578551, (+37498) 615663  or send an email to  info@veles.am

On June 7 of 2019, it was informed by “My Step” party, that Grigor Hovhannes Bekmezyan was nominated as a member of the Supreme Judicial Council.

It was later confirmed by the candidate, that he was suggested becoming a member of the Supreme Judicial Council.

According to the RA Constitution and RA Constitutional Law on Judicial Code, the five members from the 10 members are appointed by the RA National Assembly, the self-nomination procedures are strictly limited, moreover, there is no procedural rule related to transparency, participation for the nomination of the Supreme Judicial Council members.

Back in May of 2017, the RA Ministry of Justice filed a draft law on the RA Constitutional Law on Judicial Code (the draft law is available in e-draft website numbered 22․03․2017-06.04․2017), where in a line with the paragraph 7 of Article 79 of the draft law the RA Chamber of Advocated, higher educational institutions and specialized non-governmental organizations are vested with the authority to nominate 2 members for the Supreme Judicial Council.

According to the opinion of the Venice Commission (point 88-89), “specialized civil society organization” term should be clarified in the draft law not to limit the possibility of presenting the candidates and not to decrease the possibility of qualified candidates. Overall, the Venice Commission was urging to accept the similar procedure, by which different groups would be enabled to nominate their candidate in the National Assembly.

According to the opinion and the observations of the Venice Commission, the RA Constitutional Law Judicial Code was not amended by the RA Ministry of Justice. Moreover, a group of experts and civil society representatives recorded, that one version of the draft Judicial Code was presented to the Venice Commission for opinion and another version of the draft code was discussed in the National Assembly.

As a result, the possibility of nominating candidates of the Supreme Judicial Council and presenting the later in the National Assembly as prescribed by the RA Constitutional Law Judicial Code adopted on February 23 of 2018 and was vested by the National Assembly Constitutional Law to exclusively parliamentary party of the National Assembly.

Based on the law, without any explanation and justifications about the nomination of the Supreme Judicial Council candidates, the Republican Party and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation nominated five members of the Supreme Judicial Council.

“Yelq” party filed an appeal about the results of the voting of the nominated candidates, stating, that the election votes for the Supreme Judicial Council “were forged”. Moreover, Nikole Pashinyan, the member of “Yelq” announced, “closed regime is unacceptable and un-understandable”.

It turns out, that no change neither through law nor in practice related to the procedural election of the candidate for the Supreme Judicial Council was made by the political party and the judicial transformative reform concept is based on the previous practice. The nomination of the Supreme Judicial Council member candidate through the “Call” reproduced the previous scheme and is not in a line with the proclaimed concept of judicial reform’s surgical reforms.

It is obvious, that during this transitional period, the promotion of the Supreme Judicial Council member promotion is more convenient to carry out in a more participatory principal, vest the right to nomination of a candidate not only to the RA National Assembly, but also to extra-parliamentary forces and professional circles.

We recommend National Assembly to discontinue the promotion of the Supreme Judicial Council membership, make urgent amendments in the current legislation according to the above-mentioned observations and initiate the procedure related to the vacancies for the Supreme Judicial Council.

1. “Protection of Rights without Borders” NGO
2. “Journalist’s Asparez Club” NGO
3. “Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office” NGO
4. “Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center”
5. “Helsinki Association” Human Rights Protection NGO
6. Karen Tumanyan, Advocate
7. “Public Journalism Club” NGO
8. “Informed Citizens Union” NGO
9. “Peace Dialogue” NGO
10. “Social Peace” NGO
11. “Rule of Law” NGO
12. “Law Development and protection Foundation”
13. “Unison” NGO
14. “Veles” NGO
15. “For Equal Rights” NGO

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“Anti-Corruption Blog” has learned how Serzhi Vacho and his wife have extorted 40 million drams from the former chief accountant  of their Yans restaurant. The family of the terrorized woman had to sell their apartment, pawn  their  jewelry and got into debt  to  earn  the money that Vacho  forced to pay.

With the help of the Veles NGO  two crime claims were drawn up based on the information provided by Susanna Aristakesyan. A  report  on crime  was sent to the Investigative Committee of RA  about the criminal actions  by Ruzanna Beglaryan against  Susanna Aristakesyan.

In the report Susanna Aristakesyan accuses Ruzanna Beglaryan of extortion and the threat of her life. A crime report on the criminal inaction of the SIS Investigator was submitted to the National Security Service (NSS).

Taking into consideration the fact that Vachagan Ghazaryan is in freedom and has a close relationship with various criminal authorities, Susanna Aristakesyan has  serious concerns  on her and her family’s safety. Such criminal inactivity during the investigation of such specific criminal cases may lead to irreversible consequences.

Details on the video.

Continue reading at https://acblog.am/?p=2658&lang=en | AntiCorruption

International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights.

After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women’s Day on February 28, 1909 in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Woman’s Conference suggested a Women’s Day be held annually. After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.

Today, International Women’s Day is a public holiday in some countries and largely ignored elsewhere. In some places, it is a day of protest; in others, it is a day that celebrates womanhood.

History 

The earliest Women’s Day observance, called “National Woman’s Day,” was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel. Though there have been claims that the day was commemorating a protest by women garment workers in New York on March 8, 1857, researchers have described this as a myth.

In August 1910, an International Socialist Women’s Conference was organized to precede the general meeting of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired in part by the American socialists, German Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the establishment of an annual Women’s Day and was seconded by fellow socialist and later communist leader Clara Zetkin, supported by Käte Duncker, although no date was specified at that conference.Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights including suffrage for women. The following year on March 19, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honouring the martyrs of the Paris Commune. Women demanded that they be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also protested against employment sex discrimination. The Americans continued to celebrate National Women’s Day on the last Sunday in February.

In 1913 Russian women observed their first International Women’s Day on the last Saturday in February (by the Julian calendar then used in Russia).

In 1914 International Women’s Day was held on March 8 in Germany, possibly because that day was a Sunday, and now it is always held on March 8 in all countries. The 1914 observance of the Day in Germany was dedicated to women’s right to vote, which German women did not win until 1918.

In London there was a march from Bow to Trafalgar Square in support of women’s suffrage on March 8, 1914. Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested in front of Charing Cross station on her way to speak in Trafalgar Square.

On March 8, 1917, on the Gregorian calendar, in the capital of the Russian Empire, Petrograd, women textile workers began a demonstration, covering the whole city. This marked the beginning of the February Revolution, which alongside the October Revolution made up the Russian Revolution. Women in Saint Petersburg went on strike that day for “Bread and Peace” – demanding the end of World War I, an end to Russian food shortages, and the end of czarism. Leon Trotsky wrote, “23 February (8th March) was International Woman’s Day and meetings and actions were foreseen. But we did not imagine that this ‘Women’s Day’ would inaugurate the revolution. Revolutionary actions were foreseen but without date. But in the morning, despite the orders to the contrary, textile workers left their work in several factories and sent delegates to ask for support of the strike… which led to mass strike… all went out into the streets.” Seven days later, the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.

Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai and Vladimir Lenin made it an official holiday in the Soviet Union, but it was a working day until 1965. On May 8, 1965 by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet International Women’s Day was declared a non-working day in the USSR “in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of women to strengthening friendship between peoples, and the struggle for peace. But still, women’s day must be celebrated as are other holidays.”

From its official adoption in Soviet Russia following the Revolution in 1917, the holiday was predominantly celebrated in communist countries and by the communist movement worldwide. It was celebrated by the communists in China from 1922. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949 the State Council proclaimed on December 23 that March 8 would be made an official holiday with women in China given a half-day off.

Communist leader Dolores Ibárruri led a women’s march in Madrid in 1936 on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.

The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day in the International Women’s Year, 1975. In 1977, the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights and world peace.

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