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Protection of labor rights in the context of an Open Government Partnership

The “Civic Voice and Action” (CVA) is a newly formed network for labour rights protection that facilitates the national consultations for policy reforms and legislative changes to address the discrimination and violation of labour rights, with the involvement of grassroots organisations, experts, social partners – private sector, trade unions, CSOs, activists’ nonformal groups, and government officials. d Labour rights Protection with the participation of Eastern European countries based on which a preliminary action plan was developed with the contribution of the key stakeholders to be implemented by #CVAplatform.

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

Colleagues from the National Assembly of RA, Health and Labor Inspectorate Boady, civil society organizations, Human Rights Defender’s office of Armenia, trade unions, private sector, and international organizations participated at the event.

The CVA is a newly formed network for labour rights protection that facilitates the national consultations for policy reforms and legislative changes to address the discrimination and violation of labour rights, with the involvement of grassroots organisations, experts, social partners – private sector, trade unions, CSOs, activists’ nonformal groups and government officials.

“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.