In January 2009, 18 citizens applied to Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor to get legal consultation.

On the visit of the coordinator of HCA Vanadzor, Arthur Sakunts to Georgia on September 6-8, 2008
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In July and August 2008, 5 citizens applied to HCA legal assistance centers in Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Tashir and Spitak to get legal consultation.
The issues for which people applied to HCA Vanadzor centers are as follows:

In July 2008, 16 citizens applied to HCA Vanadzor for legal consultation.
The citizens’ inquiries concerned both human rights and the legislative mechanisms, which provide the application of the law.

15 citizens applied to Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor for legal consultation In June 2008.

In June 2008 four citizens applied to HCA legal assistance centers in Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Tashir and Spitak to get free of charge legal consultation.

In April 2008, 24 citizens applied to HCA legal assistance centers in Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Tashir and Spitak to get legal consultation.

Today Freedom House released the Nations in Trasit reports. The report on Armenia holds that very little progress was made on redistributing power amongst government branches.

During May 2008 seventeen citizens applied to HCA legal assistance centers in Stepanavan, Alaverdi, Tashir and Spitak to restore their violated rights or to get information about their rights.

WARSAW, 30 May 2008 - The pre-election and voting period of Armenia's presidential election was conducted in a manner that mostly met OSCE commitments, but problems arose, notably after the vote, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in a final report on the February election, released today.

On 20 February, the International Election Observation Mission (IEOM), comprising the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the European Parliament (EP), issued a joint Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• The election administration appears well-prepared to conduct the 19 February presidential election. On 9 February, the deadline for candidates to withdraw from the contest expired; no candidate withdrew. Nine candidates will participate in the contest.

The Classification of the Citizens’ Problems According to Rights
  * Social Issues – 2 persons applied on the order of getting family benefit. They wanted to know how they can apply to social structures to get family benefit. They have been explained the legal ways of applying to social structures and were told what documents they would need.

The Classification of the Citizens’ Problems According to Rights.
* 3 citizens on social-economic issues – 1 person was registered as an sole proprietor, but in the future when he stopped his activity he did not return his certificate to the sate.