Defender of Minorities’ Rights
Tatevik Khachatryan
Leading Specialist of Vulnerable Groups Protection and Cooperation with Non-Governmental Organizations
Tel. (010) 53-08-58
Email: t_khachatryan@ombuds.am
Equality is touchstone of justice; jointly both of them make the essence of freedom.
97% of people living in our country according to census data are Armenians by nationality. All national minorities together form only 3% of the population. But Armenia is a motherland of all its citizens, and all of them have equal rights.
The exceptional mission of Armenian Apostolic Church in the spiritual lives of our people is recognized by the State. At the same time the Constitution of our country provides free space to other religious organizations’ activities. No one should be discriminated for his national identity, religion, or sexual orientation. This is the real expression of democracy, pluralism, equality and freedom, which is fixed in the Constitution and is protected by us
Defender of Minorities’ Rights
News
2012-11-08
Ombudsman furthers religious freedoms in Armenia
As a follow-up to the round-table discussion, Ombudsman proposed a number of recommendations and suggestions concerning the draft law aimed at promoting religious freedoms and removing all forms of restrictions on the activities of religious organizations in Armenia for further presenting them to relevant state body.
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Information
68 religious organizations are officially registered in Armenia
11groups of national minorities live in Armenia. They are Kurds, Yezidis, Jews, Greeks, Georgians, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Germans, Assyrians, and Polish.
Department on the issues of national and religious minorities of RA Government Staff is the body regulating the issues of national and religious minorities.
