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The project with TGEU gave us a unique opportunity to mobilise
our community around different issues such as hate crime and hate
speech monitoring and reporting. We also carried out a specific transrelated informational campaign and now we are working with different
stakeholders to improve the lives of trans people in Armenia. This is
the only specifically trans-targeted project in Armenia and we are
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confident that it will bring positive change to our communities.
MSM Armenia is a coalition of three NGOs and an initiative group: Men With Social Mission, We For
Civil Equality, Armenian Gender Institute, and TG Action. Now, due to our continued efforts, we are
composed of hundreds of people representing different backgrounds and identities. Our mission is
to ensure equality, inclusion and involvement of all members of vulnerable groups, whatever their
economic, social, cultural, civic and political views, beliefs and characteristics are, in Armenian
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Ashot Gevorgyan is currently the chair of the MSM Armenia coalition. Ashot was involved
in many LGBTIQ organisations, locally, regionally, and internationally since 2006. He had an
internship at UNAIDS, worked for the Ombudsman of the Republic of Armenia, and developed
and managed several projects funded by various UN agencies, European institutions, and
other governmental and intergovernmental agencies. Currently, Ashot is studying Political
Science in the Czech Republic.
ARMENIA
MSM Armenia
http://www.msmarmenia.org/