Unzipped: Gay Armenia

PINK Armenia released their annual review of “Human Rights Situation of LGBT People” reflecting developments in 2013. It’s pretty good, ...

Day started with reports that Armenia human rights ombudsman office calls for a... "day of silence" on Human Rights Day. ["Հ...

Here we are. Not only Armenia human rights ombudsman flirts with neo-nazi but uses anti-gay undertones to ask for more money from the state...

While Armenia human rights ombudsman, conveniently ‘forgetting’ what his position is all about, targets trans sex workers and uses neo-nazi ...

Apparently, Armenia human rights ombudsman Karen Andreasyan has solved all the pressing human rights issues in Armenia and now calling for t...

On the occasion of the International Day of Tolerance, 16th November, PINK Armenia organised a round-table discussion aimed at developing an...

Armenia Ombudsman interview with   Regnum   (RU), including re: gay rights, recent   firebombing of alternative, gay friendly DIY bar ,   di...

"Firebombing of bar, and the approval it met with, are telling indicators of hostility towards sexual minorities." - writes IWPR,...

Not the strongest statement and made after days of silence... still good to hear (at last!) statement from someone who is supposed to be t...

*via Armenia Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) website Anna Safaryan Leading Specialist of Vulnerable Groups Protection and Cooperation w...

In an interview with Armenian human rights portal , Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan complained that despite local media reports there have been n...

Good to see Georgia Ombudsman participated and presented at the ILGA-Europe annual conference currently underway in Turin. Let's hope, h...

Featuring Anna Safaryan, from Human Rights Defender office, Armenia: "Armenia as you know is a country in development. In this area, w...

The total number of member states which include sexual orientation either under comprehensive or sectoral non-discrimination legislation is ...

Remember this date: 4 June 2011 . On that very date, during Civil Society Forum in Tsaghkadzor, for the first time ever, Armenia human right...

Also relevant: Բաց հարց Հրապարակ օրաթերթին «Տրանսերը» նամակ չեն գրել *Source: Epress.am (+ here ; and  AM ) A few trans sex workers...

Lack of participation from governmental agencies/ministries was the most disappointing part of the IWPR roundtable set to discuss the curre...

*via Epress.am Though Armenia signed the UN Declaration Against Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Decembe...

Many thanks to Lara Aharonian of Women's Resource Centre in Yerevan for live tweeting from the IWPR roundtable discussion on problems ...

I'd like to commend IWPR for this initiative and look forward to 24 September. (For Armenian version of press release - see comments sec...