Stakeholders' Committee

Structure

Levon Nersisyan is the General Director and founding member of Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre. Being a Technical Systems Engineer /Economist by specialization Mr. Nersisyan has gained educational degrees in a number of Higher Educational Institutions and was the Chief of Department of the State Plan of the Armenian SSR for many years.

The Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre was established in September, 1990 as an independent non-political non-profit non-governmental organization. The mission of the centre is to support the development of civil society and democratic institutions in Armenia.

In its early years, from September 1990 to June 1994, the Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre was mostly engaged in charities towards elderly people, orphan children, refugees and other vulnerable people liming below the poverty level in the Republic of Armenia who were supplied by the Centre with pecuniary aid at the expense of its own trading and publishing income.

Since 1995 the Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre has been engaged in the following main activities:

- Human rights activities;
- Educational activities;
- Law-making activities and
- Public Human Rights Library Service.

The Centre has been implementing and is now actively implementing a number of projects to promote building of civil society in the Republic of Armenia. Since 1996 Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre has participated in all the election campaigns either as independent local public observer or as educational agent in remote mountain and foot-hill areas to inform wide sections of Armenian population of their rights and duties as per the legislation of the Republic of Armenia.

Beneficiaries of the A. D. Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre are:

- Socially vulnerable people in the city of Yerevan and in 120 rural communities and small towns of the Republic of Armenia.
- Victims of trafficking and other transnational crime (the groups at risk).
- Refugees, migrants, people seeking for asylum, subjected to repression and foreign citizens.
- Community based NGOs and community groups.
- Local bodies of self-government.

To carry out the above mentioned activities Andrey Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Centre has created Regional Branches in three regions of Armenia: Shirak, Gegharkunik, Syunik.

In May, 2006 Levon Nersisian was elected as a member of MCA-Armenia program Stakeholders' Committee as a civil society representative.