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Today the Human Rights Defender Karen Andreasyan presented a number of suggestions regarding the project of the RA law on family abuse.

The package of suggestions includes different suggestions for improving the law, particularly to develop a special procedure of questioning the minors, according to which it can be done with the presence of the official representative of the minor, with the mandatory participation of the relevant staff of juvenile subdivision of the police or a psychologist/teacher, taking into account the fact that family abuses can have a depressive influence on the child.

Another important suggestion was to add the word ‘24-hour’ before the ‘hot-line’ aimed at full protection of the possible family victims. It is reasoned by the international experience, according to which with the objective to prevent family abuses, to protect people, to provide psychological and legal consultation the established ‘Hot-line’ services are 24-hour.

It is also suggested to foresee that every call or complaint must be subject to immediate examination and/or discussion, as a result of which the decision on special measures preventing family abuses will be made.

Besides that, it is suggested to develop such mechanisms of protection against family abuses, which will result in the exclusion of possible limitations on the right for education of the victim or his/her children.

The Ombudsman Office also informs that all the suggestions of the Ombudsman regarding the project of the law can be found on the official webpage of the Ombudsman, http://pashtpan.am/article/837.