HRC 50th Session: Item 3 – Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights - Embassy of Armenia to Switzerland and Permanent Mission of Armenia to the UN office at Geneva

HRC 50th Session: Item 3 – Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

27 June, 2022

Delivered by Mr. Henrik Yeritsyan, Second Secretary

Mr. President,

We thank the Special Rapporteur for his insightful report focused on the “non-take-up” in the context of the social protection. It’s unfortunate that this phenomenon remains relatively unfamiliar to the main decision makers and is yet to be widely recognized as a serious policy priority, but its negative impact on the reduction of poverty and inequalities globally continues to be significant.

We concur with the Special Rapporteur that social protection should be seen not as a cost but rather as an investment towards eradicating the extreme poverty and creating an inclusive economy. In this regard, Armenia has been annually increasing the public funding of the social protection programs while creating opportunities for the capacity building and improvement of skills of the most vulnerable groups to lift them out of poverty.

The Special Rapporteur in his report also suggested that the social protection should be enshrined as an entitlement rather than a favor or charity. We believe that any reform undertaken by governments for social protection should have the promotion of the human rights at its core with utmost respect for the dignity of the human being.

I thank you.

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