harassment
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Harassment: an unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct for a person or persons related to particular characteristics, that has the purpose or effect of violating the dignity and of creating an intimidating, hostile, offensive or neglecting environment for the latter. Particular characteristics can include sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, sexual orientation, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or other personal or social circumstances.
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Source: Latvian Centre for Human Rights NGO
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Deputy speaker of Armenian Parliament finds hate crime against lesbian woman right and justified.
(English) On May 8, 2012 two members of a Neo-Nazi group called "Dark Ravens Armenia" firebombed a gay-friendly bar in Yerevan, the owner of which is known to be lesbian woman. After that event, In one its interviews the deputy speaker of the National Assembly Eduard Sharmazanov was quoted in relation to the incident: “As an Armenian citizen and member of a national-conservative party, I find the rebellion of the two young Armenian people against the homosexuals, who have created a den of perversion in our country and have a goal of alienating the society from its moral values, completely right and justified.
armenianow.com/societ ...
Lusine Ghazaryan
May 5 at 3:16 pm
Armenia
