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Our team
Anahit Simonyan
Director and Executive Editor
Anahit is a researcher, human rights practitioner and feminist activist.
Her areas of expertise include women’s rights, protection from violence and discrimination and advancement of socio- economic rights.
Anahit has 10 years of professional experience. Throughout her career she has cooperated with numerous local and international organizations and has authored and co-authored more than 20 researches, articles and publications.
Anahit holds MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Essex, UK.
Since 2023 Anahit is a lecturer at Master's Program in Public Policy Research at Yerevan State University.
Since 2022, Anahit Simonyan works as a National Gender and Human Rights Expert at American University of Armenia’s Acopian Center for the Environment.
Since 2018 Anahit is the Director of the Human Rights Research Center (HRRC).
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Ani Asatryan
Co-Founder
Ani is a researcher with an expertise in the field of disability rights and anti-discrimination and with and extensive experience in communications and advertising.
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Lyolya Badeyan
Research fellow
Lyolya is a graduate of Master's Program in Human Rights and Social Justice of American University of Armenia (AUA). Her involvement with HRRC started in 2023, when she took part in the Right to Housing Project implemented by HRRC is collaboration with the Human Rights Clinic (HRC) of the American University of Armenia.
Interns and volunteers
Seda Arakelyan
Intern
Seda interned at HRRC in 2023.
She is a journalist, graduate of Yerevan State University.
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"One of my key professional goals is to learn how to apply new media technologies in practice. The internship at HRRC completely aligned with my expectations. It was, in fact, more than I expected, both in terms of smooth internal communication and in terms of building the projects well organizationally.
While working at HRRC, I got acquainted with research practices of the organization and explored the landscape of organizations involved in the protection of human rights. With that, I filled my information gap, gained an opportunity to look at some of human rights issues and concerns from a different perspective.
It was very valuable for me to see that within the team of HRRC everyone's opinions and approaches are being discussed and taken into account before carrying out this or that action. Whatever ideas or opinions I had, I was free to speak up and discuss because I felt the team encouraged it".
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