According to official data, 41.4 percent of children in Armenia are considered poor, and 3.7 percent are in extreme poverty.

The situation of human and children's rights in Armenia are going to be discussed by the National Assembly in two separate hearings.

According to a press release by the National Assembly, the first discussion, devoted to the protection of children's rights, started in Yerevan's Congress Hotel at 10:00 am on December 13.

The organizers are the NA Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and the Committee on Territorial Management and Local Self-Government.

According to official data, 41.4 percent of children in Armenia are considered poor, and 3.7 percent are in extreme poverty.

"If a person is poor and doesn't have the income for minimum living standards, then that is already a violation of a family's right," MP Hakob Hakobyan mentioned during a press conference held on Dec. 13.

The representatives of all spheres related to children's issues had gathered around a round table to find ways out of the current situation.

The MP has also said Armenia has achieved success in the social sphere, but the flaws are clear. "Compared to 2008, poverty has increased by 8 percent, and it is obvious that children's rights are violated."

He proposes to lead a policy so that children's rights are not violated in the family.

Chairperson of the NA standing committee on healthcare Ara Babloyan says children's rights have been protected by the law for the past three years, and he considers the free birth an achievement.

After a certain age, children with violated rights are also capable of committing crimes, and that is what concerns Head of the Service for Minors of the RA Police Nelly Duryan the most.

Duryan also touched upon the latest child molestations and says even though there have been such cases before, they have never been raised.

"We have to raise our concerns in order to prevent such cases from happening again, but we have to be careful because this refers to children," the head of the service said.

The RA Minister of Education and Science said he was strictly concerned with the education of children of socially disadvantaged families.

"The attendance of socially vulnerable children to school is still a current issue," Minister Ashotyan declared. To solve that issue, the ministry and UNICEF will implement a new program to register children left out of school.