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LABOUR RIGHTS PROTECTION AND GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES IN THE CONTEXTS OF OGP PRIORITIES & IN THE LIGHT OF COVID-19

Labour rights multi-stakeholder open Platform – Civic Voice and Action (CVA) led by #OxYGen Foundation initiated the 4th round of the workshops on the topic of open governance and participatory policymaking on August 24.

The initiative was undertaken within the framework of “Knowledge Transfer for Enhanced Government’s Accountability and Citizens Participation in Armenia” and “EU4LabourRights: Increasing Civic Voice and Action for Labour Rights and Social Protection in Armenia” projects.

The aim of the workshop was to create a mutual learning platform between Eastern European countries and Armenia on the Labour right protection, labour code creation, and the implementation process, OGP principles in this regard with a specific focus on gender-related issues, particularly addressing the following issues: how COVID-19 Pandemic affected the labour rights protection in Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Armenia and how the countries are addressing the current challenges: Best learning and success stories will have been shared.

“Knowledge Transfer for Enhanced Government’s Accountability and Citizens

Participation in Armenia” project. The Project is implemented by OxYGen Foundation with

the financial support of the International Visegrad Fund.

“EU4LabourRights: Increasing Civic Voice and Action for Labour Rights and Social

Protection in Armenia” project is implemented by OxYGen Foundation, Socioscope NGO,

“Asparez” Journalists’ Club NGO, Armenian Progressive Youth NGO, Media Diversity Institute – Armenia in cooperation with Protection of Rights without Borders NGO, and Eurasia Partnership Foundation.

The project is funded by the European Union.