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concluded with the consent of a parental guardian. Such children could be employed only if
it was not to the detriment of their health, education or morals. The Labour Code included
special provisions prohibiting children from working in hazardous and health-threatening
situations.
87.
Armenia had carried out wide-ranging reforms with respect to special schools for
children. There were 49 inclusive schools in the country, 45 of which received State
funding for inclusive education programmes. Armenia had organized teacher training and
had created a general educational curriculum for national minorities, which provided 43
lessons in native language and on literature. Yezidi experts were included in the National
Institute of Education, which addressed education issues concerning the Yezidi and other
national minorities. Various teacher training programmes on the Yezidi language had been
organized by the National Institute of Education, and courses about Yezidi culture and
history had been included in its programmes.
88.
With the support of UNHCR, Armenia was building houses for refugees and
adopting measures to meet their basic housing needs. The housing programme dealt with
most vulnerable category of refugees and was being implemented through the issuance of
certificates for all refugees who would buy flats. Armenia was looking further into the
housing needs of those refugees living with relatives or renting flats. There were 1,500
families living in such circumstances.
89.
Armenia’s foremost concern regarding internally displaced persons was to ensure
their safe return to their former places of residence, which required the peaceful settlement
of conflict. At present, such individuals could return to their former places of residence,
where there was only a minimum risk of armed conflict.
90.
The Government reform in the area of reproductive health, implemented in 2008 and
2009, had increased the State budget and funds for reproductive services for the entire
population. As a result, every woman in Armenia now had the right to gain access to
reproductive health services free of charge. With the assistance of the World Bank, the
Government had implemented primary health-care programmes and health-care
modernization programmes, through which Armenia had created the capacity necessary to
ensure primary health-care services of good quality, including reproductive health-care
services, in more than 130 rural and remote communities. The Government had continued
the modernization of rural health-care centres, the training of staff, the establishment of
mobile health-care groups and the reform of emergency health-care services, in order to
provide health care in rural and remote areas. In 2008, the Government had decided to
conduct in Armenian Schools a special training programme entitled “Healthy Behaviour”,
which included issues related to reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
91.
Armenia had created a manual for law-enforcement officials on the trafficking in
human beings, as a result of which educational programmes would be included in all
training curriculums for law-enforcement officials, including the police, the judiciary and
the prosecutor’s office. Armenia had also created a school curriculum for students in the
higher grades, which would be implemented starting in September 2010. No children had
been trafficked outside Armenia, and there had been only a handful of cases of child
trafficking and beggary within the country. Extensive cooperation with non-governmental
organizations was being carried out, including shelters run by the non-governmental
organization community.
92.
Armenia would examine all recommendations and implement them.
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