We and Our Rights<\/span><\/a>,\u201d aimed to collect data concerning cases of discrimination and rights violation toward LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people in Armenia and to find out to what extent legislation of Republic of Armenia regulates LGBT rights protection and their responsibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hovsepyan mentioned that discrimination against LGBT people occurs in all facets of life: at school and at work, in military service, while seeking healthcare services, and so on. He also mentioned that discrimination also occurs in the media \u2014 through news stories that ridicule, criticize and demean the lives and experiences of LGBT people in Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The PINK Armenia representative also referred to incidents of rape and violence in Armenia\u2019s armed forces. Despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) removed homsexuality from their list of mental disorders in 1990, according to Hovespyan, Armenia does not prescribe to the WHO criteria and still labels homosexuality as a mental disorder. Thus, gay men in Armenia can be exempt from military service if they state their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to the men surveyed in the report (as women in Armenia don\u2019t serve in the military), they would rather be labelled \u201ccrazy\u201d than be subject to rape or violence at the hands of their fellow soldiers or officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The roundtable on LGBT issues in Armenia organized by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Armenia took place today. IWPR representative Sara Khojoyan opened the session by introducing the organization\u2019s activities and mentioning that this roundtable was organized as a sort of follow-up to an article she had written earlier which described some …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10329,16147,15832,16144,15833,15834,15407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}