This study aims to identify the child rights violations in Armenia and the correlation between poverty
and those violations. The study will address the causes of child rights violations and child abuse in
Armenia and will identify child’s rights violation cases in 2013 in the selected communities. The sample
size represents Aparan city in Aragatsotn Marz with its 19 communities. Both qualitative and
quantitative research methods were used. The study was developed based on the data collected
through three types of data collection instruments; review of child rights violation cases recorded by
the Guardianship and Trusteeship Committees of the selected 20 communities, group discussions with
Community Mobilisers who work for an NGO in those 20 communities and expert interviews. The
analysis of the collected data allowed partially accepting the hypothesis that, the higher the poverty
rate the higher the child rights violations in Armenia. Poverty was identified as a major cause of child
rights violations in Armenia. But it was also identified that besides poverty there are also other causes
such as public awareness, lack of parental and household management skills, parents’ indifference,
due to which the rights of children were violated in Armenia.