The A.D.Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Protection Centre is going to realize observation mission at the RA Presidential Elections on February 19, 2008.

10.11.2007  Pensioners are victorious over Armenian State Social Insurance Fund.
ArmInfo. The Cassation Court of Armenia has annulled the contract between the Armenian State Social Insurance Fund and the VTB-Armenia Bank, Meri Khachatryan, a lawyer at the Armenian Center for the Protection of Human Rights after Sakharov, told ArmInfo correspondent. To note, the contract restricted the period for receiving pensions at the branches of VTB-Armenia Bank CJSC (former ArmSavingsBank).

The Nov 9 decision of the Cassation Court of Armenia is final and without appeal, as both parties to the contract violated a number of items of the Armenian legislature. To note, according to the contract between the Fund and the bank, if a pensioner failed to receive his/her pension at the VTB-Armenia Bank CJSC's branches within a week-long period, he/she lost the chance to receive it until the 10-12th day of the next month. The terms of this contract made pensioners refuse "free" banking services and receive their pensions through social employees. For their part, social employees had an opportunity to take "an unwritten tax" for their service from pensioners, and over the recent years this "tax" has grown from 100- 200 AMD to 500 AMD at the mean.

“The main Causes of Human Rights and Freedoms Violation in the Republic of Armenia”, the Sakharov Centre annual report was developed and submitted to the Prime-minister, Minister of Justice and the National Assembly of  the RA.

On August 1-3, 2007, a workshop took place on the development of a five-year strategic plan of the A.D.Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Center, with the participation of experts from the INTRAC organization (Great Britain) and the World Council of Churches Armenia Inter-Church Charitable Round Table Foundation.

The Director of the A.D.Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Center made an application to resign his membership from the Stakeholders Committee of the “Millennium Challenges - Armenia” Program.

On July 16, 2007 a meeting took place at the RA State Fund of Social Insurance about regulating the pension payments from the “VTB – Armenia Bank” Ltd. to the pensioners. As agreed at the meeting, the Sakharov Center submitted its suggestions on the discussed issue to the Pension Fund.