CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PROTECTION DEPARTMENT TO BE CREATED AT LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES TILL APRIL
Noyan Tapan
Mar 16 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. A National Commission on Children's
Rights Protection was created in Armenia. Representatives of
different ministries are involved in it. The commission will
regulate works directed to protection of children's rights in the
republic. Corresponding departments will be created at the Yerevan
Mayor's Office and all the regional administrations till April to
implement those works at place. Those departments will particularly
be engaged in solution of problems of children being in difficult
situations, left without parental care as well as in issue of placing
those children in different special institutions or returning their
families.
As Lala Ghazarian, the Chief of the Department on Family, Women's and
Children's Problems of the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Issues
informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, at these departments doctors,
pedagogues, psychologists, social workers and lawyers will work. The
latters will be civil servicemen. According to L.Ghazarian, within
the framework of programs of international organizations, re-training
courses will be organized for employees of the departments during
the coming two years, and the departments will be provided with
modern equipment.
It was also mentioned that according to the last data, 36 vagrant and
beggar children, 6751 children left out of the system of comprehensive
education, among them 2888 in Yerevan, are registered in the republic.
Noyan Tapan
Mar 16 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN. A National Commission on Children's
Rights Protection was created in Armenia. Representatives of
different ministries are involved in it. The commission will
regulate works directed to protection of children's rights in the
republic. Corresponding departments will be created at the Yerevan
Mayor's Office and all the regional administrations till April to
implement those works at place. Those departments will particularly
be engaged in solution of problems of children being in difficult
situations, left without parental care as well as in issue of placing
those children in different special institutions or returning their
families.
As Lala Ghazarian, the Chief of the Department on Family, Women's and
Children's Problems of the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Issues
informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, at these departments doctors,
pedagogues, psychologists, social workers and lawyers will work. The
latters will be civil servicemen. According to L.Ghazarian, within
the framework of programs of international organizations, re-training
courses will be organized for employees of the departments during
the coming two years, and the departments will be provided with
modern equipment.
It was also mentioned that according to the last data, 36 vagrant and
beggar children, 6751 children left out of the system of comprehensive
education, among them 2888 in Yerevan, are registered in the republic.