Everyone in Armenia has the right to protection: MP on LGBT rights

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01/16/2019

Everyone, including sexual minorities, have rights, and if they turn to the relevant Commission, we will discuss any issue, member of the Prosperous Armenia Party, candidate for the chair of the standing parliamentary Commission on Human Rights and Public Affairs, Naira Zohrabyan stated at the National Assembly on Wednesday, answering the question of My Step bloc MP deputy Lusine Badalyan about whether she would pay attention to protection of the rights of sexual minorities in Armenia, in case of her election. According to Badalyan herself, sexual minorities also live in Armenia, and they also need to have equal rights. Zohrabyan again noted that everyone in Armenia has the right to protection.

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