Edmon Marukyan
| Edmon Marukyan | |
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| Էդմոն Մարուքյան | |
Marukyan in December 2012
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| Born |
January 13, 1981 Kirovakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Political party | Bright Armenia |
| Residence | Yerevan, Vanadzor |
| Alma mater | Institute of Commerce and Law, Moscow (LL.B.) State Public Administration Academy of Armenia (LL.M.) University of Minnesota Law School (LL.M.) |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Website | edmonmarukyan |
Edmon Marukyan (Armenian: Էդմոն Մարուքյան), is an Armenian lawyer, who was elected member of the National Assembly in May 2012 from the 30th electoral district, which includes the third largest city of Armenia, Vanadzor, and two nearby villages of Gugark and Shahumyan in Lori Province.
Edmon Marukyan was born on January 13, 1981 in Kirovakan, Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union. He attended School #6 of his home town Vanadzor, then served in the Armenian Army.
Marukyan graduated from the Institute of Commerce and Law in Moscow in 2002 with a Bachelor of Law degree. In 2006 he received qualification of a Specialist for the Protection of Human Rights and Interests in the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights of Warsaw. In 2007 he left the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Armenia with a Master of Law degree. Three years later, in 2010 Marukyan received an LL.M. and was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow studying Human Rights and International Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
Along with legal education, Marukyan participated in numerous specialized training courses in Armenia, Poland, Hungary, the US, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Germany, and Russia.
Since 2001, Marukyan is actively involved in human rights activism in Armenia. He has been the head of several non-government human rights organizations. From 2007 to 2008 he lectured Philosophy and Political Science at the Vanadzor State Pedagogical Institute. Since 2008 Marukyan is a member of the Chamber of Advocates of Armenia. He is also author of articles and reports on human rights in Armenia.
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