15th August 2024
- Amend the Criminal Code of Armenia to ensure that the consent of a minor under 16 is not examined and that the offence is classified as rape, with appropriate penalties, ensuring a robust criminal justice response.
- Amend the Family Code to set 18 as the minimum age of marriage without any exceptions.
- Develop a comprehensive and child and gender-sensitive methodology, guidelines, and protocols to investigate sexual violence crimes.
- Abolish the practice of intrusive interviews, forced confrontations, invasive forensic examinations, and virginity testing; avoid adverse and unscientific inferences from a hymen’s condition; ensure that investigative actions involving minors are properly recorded (including video recording if necessary) to avoid repeated interviews.