March, 2020

• 25 March

  

  Ministry of Labor Moves to Protect Worker Rights During State of Exception 

   – In all those cases when the employee has unused vacation time, and operations cannot continue during the state of emergency, the employer shall be mandated to provide this unused vacation if the worker requests it.
• 23 March

  

  Workers Situation under the Quarantine 

  "SAS Group" a large retail sales chain, refuses to pay its workers that have forcibly gone idle. SAS calls employees and compells them to write requests for dismissal from work or unpaid․․․
• 23 March

  

  More Public Venues Ordered to Close by State of Emergency Commandant

  State of Exception (Emergency) Commandant, Tigran Avinyan has ordered closure of the following public venues starting from March 22 until the end date of the state of exception, April 14...
• 23 March

  

  Coronavirus Cases Top 190 in Armenia, While the Government Takes Legislative Measures to Punish Denial of Isolation

  New decisions are to be made whether patients with mild coronavirus symptoms will be hospitalized or kept in quarantine․․․
• 23 March

  

  Threats to Human Rights Defender Artur Sakunts For Criticizing Putin

  A number of NGOs have issued a statement condemning life threats to Human Rights Defender Artur Sakunts and demanding from law enforcement bodies to investigate the case and bring criminal․․․
• 21 March

  

  The Involvement of Armenian Diaspora’s Businessmen In Plundering Armenia’s Subsoils

  Open letter to the big capital owners and businessmen in the Armenian Diaspora. We have attempted to publish this open letter in Armenian Weekly, a Diaspora based media...
• 18 March

  

  Armenia in a State of Exception until April 14 

  The government of Armenia, followed by the parliament have moved to declare a state of exception (emergency) in all of the country given the pandemics of the new coronavirus all over the world and the need to contain its rapid spreading․
• 17 March

  Coronavirus Update as of 12:00, March 17, 2020 

  The ministry has called for mobilization of students of the medical university, persons with nursing and other medical specialization, translators․․․
• 16 March

  

  Alarms Raised over Approval of Election Commission Members with Questionable Past Performance at Elections 

  ANC calls on the "Yes" campaign to take urgent measures to ensure equal representation of members at the committees.․․
• 14 March

  No Yezidi Mayor in Mixed Communities

  The Yezidi Center for Human rights reminds that Armenia has commitments to ensure the effective participation of ethnic minorities in decisions affecting their lives.