Monitoring of the media and social platforms by the
Office of the Human Rights Defender shows that hate speech on the basis of
ethnic or national affiliation has recently gained a lot of popularity.
Moreover, in a number of cases specific ethnicity or nationality is used as an
insult.
The Defender emphasizes that the use of such speech is
inadmissible. The state must take necessary measures to exclude hate speech
based on ethnic or national origin. Public and political figures, in their
turn, should exclude the use of such speech, and mass media should avoid its
dissemination.
The Defender also emphasizes the importance of taking
necessary and sufficient steps to protect and promote the rights of national
minorities, which was referred in the 2023 annual report of the Human Rights
Defender. Any discrimination against national minorities should be excluded in
the Republic of Armenia.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
has also addressed the widespread ethnic and national hate speech in Armenia,
notting the need to take concrete steps to eliminate it, underlining the
necessity of taking steps towards rooting respect for diversity in society
through education and preventing discrimination against any person or group of
persons on the basis of ethnic or national origin.
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