Anahit Manasyan
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Anahit Manasyan | |
|---|---|
| Human Rights Defender of Armenia | |
| Assumed office 12 April 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 June 1988 |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Anahit A. Manasyan (Armenian: Անահիտ Մանասյան; born 24 June 1988) is an Armenian lawyer who serves as the current Human Rights Defender of Armenia since 2023.[1]
Anahit Manasyan was born on 24 June 1988, in Yerevan. From 2004 to 2008, she studied and graduated with honors from YSU Faculty of Law, from 2008 to 2010, she studied and graduated with honors from YSU Faculty of Law (master's program), in 2013, she pursued the postgraduate program at Yerevan State University (YSU) Faculty of Law. In January–June 2016, she studied at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, USA.
Career
In 2008-2009, she served as an expert on the staff of the Armenian Minister of Justice. From 2009 to 2013, she worked as an Assistant to the President of the Constitutional Court of Armenia. Additionally, between 2010 and 2015, she held the position of a lecturer at the Chair of Constitutional Law at Yerevan State University. In 2012, she completed an internship at the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
From 2014 to July 2021, she served as a lecturer at the Academy of Justice of Armenia. From 2013 to 2014, she served as an advisor to the President of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, and from 2014 to December 2016 she held the position of senior advisor to the President of the Constitutional Court of Armenia. From December 2016 to March 2018, she became an adviser to the Constitutional Court of Armenia.
During the period from February 2017 to January 2019, she assumed the role of Vice-Rector of the Academy of Justice for Scientific Affairs. From January 2019 to July 2021, she served as the vice-rector of the Academy of Justice of Armenia, from 2015 to now, she is an associate Professor at the Chair of Constitutional Law of Yerevan State University. From April to August 2022 she served as a senior Legal Expert of the EU-funded project "Consolidation of the Justice System in Armenia", from November 2022 to April 2023, she held the position of the Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia. Since 20 December 2023, member (Armenia) of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT). Since 1 March 2024, member of the Governing Board of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI). On 12 April 2023, she was elected as the Human Rights Defender by the National Assembly.
