
The Human Rights Defender of Artsakh Gegham Stepanyan sent a letter to the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner, the Director General of UNICEF and other international human rights organizations and actors.
As the NKR HRD's press service reports, the Ombudsman referred to the
violations of the children's rights to education and other
fundamental rights, the humanitarian crisis caused as a result of the
blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan, followed by deliberate disruptions
of the work of Artsakh's critical infrastructure.
The Ombudsman emphasized that the inactive attitude by the
international community is unacceptable which entails to the
violation of children's right to education and other fundamental
rights and urged the mentioned organizations and actors to go beyond
the limits of calls and condemnations towards taking concrete
targeted actions and to stay committed to the principles of the 1989
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Since December 12, 2022, for 44 days now, the Azerbaijani side, under
a far-fetched environmental pretext, blocked the only road connecting
Artsakh with the outside world. The population of the NKR (120,000
people, of which 30,000 are children) has been under blockade for the
second month, deprived of basic means of subsistence. All this is
happening against the background of the civilized community's tacit
encouragement of Azerbaijan's inhumane actions.
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