A broad field of activities to be held by the FIDH in the region

It is the first time that Forum of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) kicks off in Yerevan. On the Forum which will last for 3 days representatives from around 300 countries will participate.

FIDH Chairman Souhayr Belhassen on the meeting with the journalists mentioned that he is happy to be present in Armenia as Armenia is an important country for FIDH.

“This region is inhabited with people who have for a long time lived in Stalin era. In this concern a wide field of activities is opened for FIDH. It is our duty to accompany Armenia and the whole region,” Belhassen mentioned adding that for example in his country, in Tunis, it is impossible to hold such kind of Forum.

According to the FIDH chairman the institute of human rights protection is comparably stable, and the organization is aimed at making Armenia to have a progress.

The subject of the Forum is “Justice, the new challenges” and the main questions to be discussed at the forum are what kind of justice and what kind of progress can be in the former Soviet countries.

“The center of all our concerns is the issue of the human rights in this and all the Soviet countries,” Belhassen said.
Artak Kirakosyan, the representative of the Civic Society Institute noticed that the forum would be senseless if the problem of the human rights in Armenia was not discussed.

“This was the most important issue for us, to make it heard form the highest tribunes and the lips of the most prominent people, as the field of justice in Armenia is one of the most crippling fields,” he said.

On the conference will participate the first woman judge of Iran, Shirin Ebadin, who mentioned in her opening speech holding such kind of Forum in her country would be simply impossible, reminding the fact that many journalists in Iran are imprisoned.