CONCLUSION

2020 As a result of monitoring the human rights situation of LGBT people, it became clear that:

The human rights of LGBT people continue to be violated in various spheres of public life, moreover, compared to previous years, the number of violations has increased by 2020. Dur-ing the reporting year, cases of physical violence, threats of violence, illegal disclosure of personal data, dismissal, and expulsion from an educational institution on the grounds of sexuality were registered. Cases of domestic violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity are frequent. LGBT individuals face physical, psychological, and economic violence after coming out to their family members and revealing their SOGI. The reasons for the violence are frequently mentioned as is the ignorance of the family members about the SOGI, the feeling of shame in front of the relatives, and the society. Despite the widespread nature of the offenses, LGBT people avoid turning to law enforce-ment, because they do not trust police officers, they are afraid that they will be ridiculed, mocked, humiliated, and information about their sexuality will be illegally spread, besides, they do not consider legal protection mechanisms effective in the country. Law enforcement, in turn, continues to discriminate against the LGBT community. Law en-forcement officers lack information about sexuality and lack sensitivity on LGBT issues, and they refrain from considering the crimes based on SOGI and combined with discrimina-tion as subjects of investigation and examination. Even though in the framework of the fight against hate speech, the RA Criminal Code was appended with a new article, which envisages responsibility for public calls for violence and justifying violence, in practice some cases of calls for violence based on SOGI did not re-ceive proper legal attention. During the year, the problems of LGBT people continued to be used for political manipula-tions, to discredit the representatives of the political power. Such speculations continued during the war.