07.07.2009
Peaceful Demonstration of Advocacy and Assistance Center of Tavush Marz in Ijevan City
The Armenian Young Lawyers Association is currently implementing a project “Establishment and Operation of Advocacy and Assistance Center in Ijevan City of Tavush Marz” in the framework of Mobilizing Action against Corruption (MAAC) Activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A),.
On 07.08 2009, Tavush Advocacy and Assistance Center of Ijevan City, which is the first of the 11 such AACs and AARCs established and currently operating in the Republic of Armenia, in cooperation with the Students’ Council of Ijevan Branch of Yerevan State University, initiated a Peaceful Demonstration against corruption. The demonstration was aimed to involve the public at large in struggle against corruption, to raise the public awareness on anticorruption issues and the mechanisms for the protection of their infringed rights. The participants of the Peaceful demonstration called the public to join the struggle against corruption and to prevent the corrupt activities in all their occurrences: Over 50 participants of the demonstration, including the representatives of the AYLA staff, YSU students, volunteers and staff of Tavush AAC, marched through the streets of Ijevan city carrying posters with anticorruption slogans and disseminated information leaflets on different spheres of the protection of human rights: Over four thousand leaflets were distributed among the population.
