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Steering Committee and National Platforms React to Military Actions in Nagorno-Karabakh Region
The Steering Committee (SC) underlined in its appeal that peace among neighbours is one of the aims of the European Union, which successfully settled age-old conflicts in Europe allowing once hostile countries to live and work together. Peace among neighbours is also one of the aims of the Eastern Partnership and its Civil Society Forum, to which
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EaP CSF Participates in a Side Event on Civil Society Space in EaP at the 31st session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
The side event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Lithuania was held on 1 March 2016 and aimed at approaching the issue of widening civil society space in the Eastern Partnership region. The speakers, including Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Mikheil Janelidzeand a member of the Eastern Partnership
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EaP CSF Concerned about the Deteriorating Human Rights Situation in Armenia
The Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum is concerned about the increasing number of human rights violations of civil and political activists by Armenian authorities. Since the beginning of 2016, Armenian authorities have tightened repression against political opponents and by arresting one more activist increased the number of political prisoners to 13.
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CASE STUDIES. CSO ENGAGEMENT IN POLICY-MAKING: ARMENIA
This mapping research aimed to find out find out the strategies and tools that CSOs in Armenia use to influence policy-making processes through description of specific cases (that is, advocacy campaigns), to analyze the key factors that contribute to advocacy campaigns and those that have served as an obstacle, as well as the relationship between
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EU Roadmap For Engagement With Civil Society
Currently more than 4000 registered CSOs in Armenia, however reportedly many of them do not remain active. Aside from officially registered entities, Armenia does still have many traditional citizen associations formed on an ad hoc basis for practical activities, such as the renovation of common spaces in highrise buildings or the creation of mutual support
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CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT IN POLICY DIALOGUE IN ARMENIA
This study is conducted by Yerevan Press Club and the Secretariat of the Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum with the support of the project “Civil society dialogue for progress” financed by the European Union. The goal of the study is to enhance the civil society (CS) participation in policy dialogue
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