Lena Harutyunyan was forcibly displaced from the occupied Republic of Artsakh on September 27. As part of Iravaban.net’s series “Legal Issues of Artsakh Armenians in Armenia,” she shared that her brother has a category 2 disability but hasn’t been included anywhere to receive any assistance.

She says she has a higher education but cannot find work: “I participate in interviews, but they’re just formalities. I have more experience, I’m proficient in everything, I even know trades. Then I applied to the unified social service to learn a trade, supposedly to work for 3 months, but it’s completely false.”

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The “Strengthening Protection Mechanisms for the Rights of Forcibly Displaced Persons from Nagorno-Karabakh” project is implemented by the Armenian Lawyers Association in collaboration with the “Harmony” Shushi Women’s NGO, within the framework of the “Monitoring Justice Sector Reforms in Armenia” project (www.juremonia.am) funded by the European Union.

The overall objective of the project is to promote the integration of forcibly displaced persons from Artsakh in their new communities of residence in Armenia by strengthening mechanisms for protecting their rights, raising their level of legal awareness, access to justice, and protection of their rights.

This publication was prepared with the financial support of the European Union. The Armenian Lawyers Association NGO is responsible for the content, and it does not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.

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