Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor is a non-profit, human rights organization, not an attorney’s office.
The Organization provides free legal counseling in cases of violations of the fundamental human rights prescribed by the European Convention on human rights, however, not to all citizens, as the organization’s human and financial resources are not limitless, moreover they are limited. Priority is given to the representatives of socially insecure and vulnerable groups.
Additionally, 4 advocates of the organization are included in 126 domestic court cases (51 administrative cases, 39 criminal cases, 33 civil cases, 3 cases in the Anti-Corruption court) and more than 250 cases of the ECtHR. Moreover, within the framework of the right to freedom of information, HCAV has court cases in the courts of RA against the RA government, the RA National Security service, the RA Ministry of Defense, and the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The target groups of the Organization are:
- Forcibly displaced persons
- Servicepersons, conscripts, and their families
- Prisoners of war, missing persons, conflict-affected persons, and their families
- Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities and their families
- Convicts, arrestees, detainees, and their family members
- Drug users and their families
- Witnesses, victims, suspects, defendants involved in criminal cases, and their families
- Civil and political activists, human rights defenders
- Voters and election observers
- Religious minorities
- Foreign citizens subjected to political persecution
