On 3 and 8 November, public awareness online seminars with the participation of non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, lawyers and other interested persons of Syunik and neighboring marzes were held. The Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association, CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia and the Constructive Dialogue Network of Armenian CSOs organized the seminar in the framework of the \u201cMultifaceted Whistle-Blowing Promotion in Armenia\u201d project implemented by the ALA with the support of the European Union and the \u201cOpen Government Partnership Europe\u201d Foundation.<\/p>\n
The main objective of the discussion was to raise public awareness about the whistle-blowing system, assisting in the improvement of the whistle-blowing system and to change the legal perception and culture of the public in Armenia about the whistle-blowers.\u00a0It is also aimed at creating a positive and demanding image of the whistle-blower as a citizen of the Republic of Armenia.<\/p>\n
Ms Mariam Zadoyan and Ms Anahit Mardoyan\u00a0presented to the participants the general nature of the whistle-blowing system and the role of whistle-blowers in the fight against corruption, spoke about all the electronic whistle-blowing platforms operating in Armenia. Further, they explained in details and presented the process of submitting a report\/application, for the persons who have doubts about corruption, anonymously and openly on each platform.<\/p>\n
Mariam Zadoyan offered the participants of the two seminars to carry out practical work. The participants submitted a test application on the haytnir.am alternative whistle-blowing platform created within the framework of the “Multifaceted Whistle-Blowing (WB) Promotion in Armenia” project and got acquainted with the rules of submitting an application on the platform in a practical format. The speaker also referred to the legislative gaps and problems of reporting, as well as methods of reporting.<\/p>\n
Further an exchange of ideas with the participants of the seminar as well as collection of ideas was held.<\/p>\n
While studying the electronic whistle-blowing platform haytnir.am<\/em>, Armenak Davtyan, a representative of the \u201cIn the Name of Freedom\u201d Legal Non-Governmental Organization of Syunik Marz, \u00a0was interested in the mechanisms of generating statistics and publishing success stories.<\/p>\n Lawyer Hrayr Khachatryan, a representative of the “Law for the Rule of Law” NGO of Syunik Marz, was interested in the effectiveness of electronic whistle-blowing platforms. In particular, the lawyer wanted to know the statistical data of the “bizprotect.am” business sector whistle-blowing electronic platform and the level of efficiency of the platform since its putting in operation.<\/p>\n The participants welcomed such an initiative aimed at public awareness and expressed gratitude for the new information and knowledge they received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 3 and 8 November, public awareness online seminars with the participation of non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders, lawyers and other interested persons of Syunik and neighboring marzes were held. The Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association, CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia and the Constructive Dialogue Network of Armenian CSOs organized the seminar in the framework of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}