State Responsibility for Human Rights
The obligation to protect, promote and ensure the enjoyment of human rights is the prime responsibility of States, thereby, conferring on States responsibility for the human rights of individuals. Many human rights are owed by States to all people within their territories, while certain human rights are owed by a State to particular groups of people.
Essentially, most of the treaties don’t have any executive power. In some countries the international treaties have supremacy over the state legislation; in many countries treaties are given a status of constitution and in a number of countries only certain provisions of the given treaty are reflected in the state legislation.
After the 1992 independence, the Republic of Armenia signed and ratified a number of international fundamental agreements, treaties and conventions, thus committing itself to create such conditions which will provide for the respect towards the obligations proceeding from those international documents. Corresponding to the Charter of the United Nations “all members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter” (Charter of the United Nations, article 2, point 2 ). Correspondingly, the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia expresses this idea in its article 6 in this way: “The international treaties shall come into force only after being ratified or approved. The international treaties are a constituent part of the legal system of the Republic of Armenia.”
Becoming party to the international human rights documents, the Republic of Armenia has assumed certain obligations. For example, becoming party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Republic of Armenia has been obliged to protect and provide for the freedom of movement, equality before the law, the right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly, freedom of association, participation in public affairs and elections, and protection of minority rights. This unequivocally certifies that the issues concerning human rights, that is to say the creation and protection of necessary conditions for the realization of the rights and freedoms of people and citizens is the direct responsibility of the Republic of Armenia.
The dates of the accession of the RA to the UN documents or their ratification [pdf]
There exist also a number of treaty and extra-treaty mechanisms to control the realization of the human rights international standards and to discuss the complaints on the human rights violations. The latter controls the realization of the fundamental international treaties on human rights. The created separate committees consist of independent experts who act individually but not as representatives of their governments, though they are elected by the representatives of the State Parties. The principal functions of the treaty-monitoring bodies are the investigation of the reports presented by the State Parties and the discussion of the complaints on the human rights violations
Reports of the RA to the Treaty-Monitoring Bodies | 
