Armenia joins the the Human Rights Guide network, a human rights education and self-help platform created by the Baltic Human Rights Society (BHRS), in 2024, as it continues to expand and reach more people.
In June 2024, BHRS launched the project "Human Rights Guide - human rights education for strengthening the respect of rule of law and democratic values" with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia. Within the framework of the project, the Human Rights Guide will be introduced in Armenia. Our partners, Europe in Law NGO, will have the opportunity to develop and implement the Guide in Armenia. The guide will be available in Armenian, English and Russian. Armenian is a new language for the Guide, making it even more accessible to people that do not undestand other languages.
BHRS believes that this is a great step for human rights education in Armenia as we have already seen in other countries – it will be easier than ever before for the members of the Armenian society and legal professionals to find relevant human rights information and resources.
The project will continue the development of the Human Rights Guide in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. BHRS already launched the Human Rights Guide platforms in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in November 2023. These EU East Partnership countries remain close partners and BHRS is happy to be able to share the European know-how on human rights.
In the new phase of the project, the continuation of the Guide will allow partners from Kyiv Human Rights Hub (Ukraine), Human Rights Embassy (Moldova) and Foundation for the Support of Legal Education of GYLA (Georgia) to expand the content of the Guide in their countries, focusing on the most problematic and topical human rights issues.
The project is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia under the "Development Cooperation Projects and International Aid" Programme. The project in Eastern partnership coutries is being supported by its associate partners the Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia, the Riga Graduate School of Law, 2022 Nobel prize winner Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), the People's Advocate of Moldova, the Equality Council of Moldova and the Grigol Robakidze University Georgia.
