27/01/2021 | 11:43:33 Thank you, Mister Chairman, Honourable Colleagues, First of all, let me express my words of gratitude to the rapporteur for this excellent and very interesting report. Last March, when we started to follow the developments in the proliferation of coronavirus, in the phase when less than 1 million people were infected. Now, we have more than 100 million people infected worldwide. Actually, COVID-19 has no borders, but simultaneously it creates borders. It creates limitations. The fact that we... 26/01/2021 | 10:12:48 Thank you, Mister Chairman. The European Court of Human Rights is the main pillar of existence of this organisation. Due to the European Court of Human Rights and its very existence, the people of the Council of Europe may enjoy the same system of international human rights guarantees. Ladies and gentlemen, the European Court of Human Rights exists until we believe in it. Twenty years ago when we joined this organisation we believed in the European Court of Human Rights and in European values... 30/01/2020 | 19:14:25 Mister President, honorable colleagues, First of all, let me thank the rapporteurs for their work. I would just like to share some thoughts about the Armenian experience. After the snap elections we held in 2018, we got a democratic capital, which we are intending to use for increasing the level of democracy in Armenia. I would just like to say that the constitutional commission was created, consisting of the representatives of all parliamentarian groups, consisting of the academics... 30/01/2020 | 11:41:26 Dear colleagues. As a lawyer, as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights I cannot keep silence on this issue. Let me first of all thank the rapporteur for her excellent work. The Council of Europe should be the territory free of political prisoners since their existence is the greatest challenge to the very existence of the Council of Europe undermining its values and principles. From the very beginning of Azerbaijan's membership in the Council of Europe, it has made... 30/01/2020 | 10:49:38 Mr Chairman, dear colleagues, In accordance with article 77 of the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Convention, children shall be the object of special respect and shall be protected against any form of indecent assault. Children are one of the rare categories of the victims of war who are getting special protection under international humanitarian law, both customary and statutory. Nobody has challenged that children, along with the elders, women and infirm persons, are the most... 02/10/2019 | 10:38:31 Honourable Chair, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen. The ombudsman institution is a relatively new phenomenon in our contemporary political life. Well-established and functioning in some Western democracies -- and for sure in Scandinavia -- we are new members for the Eastern Europe and post-Soviet area. Nevertheless, despite the short history of ombudsmen institutions, it became the crucial pillar for the protection of human rights in those countries. Armenia is not an exception here. The... 10/04/2019 | 16:26:35 The verbal expression of hatred – hate speech – is the root cause of the huge range of crimes that are based on intolerance, discrimination, xenophobia and racism. Its very existence poses a great danger and a great question for democratic society, the protection of human rights and the rule of law. Hate speech is extremely dangerous, especially when it is a precursor for the planning and perpetration of genocide, and other crimes against humanity. It tends to humiliate, stigmatise, degrade...