On 12 April 2023, Ms. Anahit Manasyan was elected as the new Human Rights Defender of Armenia by the RA National Assembly for a term of six years. She started performing her duties on 13 April 2023, in accordance with the RA Constitution and the Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Defender.

Ms. Manasyan, a former deputy Prosecutor General, holds a PhD in Law and has served as expert in the staff of the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and as assistant to the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, among other things. She has been an expert within the frames of different projects of various regional and international organizations (OSCE, Council of Europe, UN, etc.), participating in the development of opinions, research, manuals on a number of issues, delivered lectures in the frame of several seminars and various foreign scientific and educational institutions (including in Georgia, Hungary and Ukraine).