Armenia

===Human rights and freedom===
{{Main|Human rights in Armenia}}
[[File:Raffi-kojian 20180423 190358284.jpg|thumb|In April 2018, a quasi-authoritarian [[Serzh Sargsyan|regime]] collapsed as a result of a nationwide [[2018 Armenian revolution|protest movement in Armenia]].]]
Human rights in Armenia tend to be better than those in most [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet republics]] and have drawn closer to acceptable standards, especially economically.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Nonetheless, there are still several considerable problems.

Armenia scored 5.63 on [[The Economist Democracy Index]], published in January 2023 (data for 2022). Although still classified as "[[hybrid regime]]", Armenia recorded the strongest improvement among European countries and reached its ever-best score since calculation began in 2006.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/01/08/the-retreat-of-global-democracy-stopped-in-2018|title=The retreat of global democracy stopped in 2018|date=8 January 2019|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=9 January 2019|issn=0013-0613|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109053748/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/01/08/the-retreat-of-global-democracy-stopped-in-2018|archive-date=9 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

Armenia is classified as "partly free" in the 2019 report (with data from 2018) by [[Freedom House]], which gives it a score of 51 out of 100,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/armenia|title=Armenia|date=31 January 2019|website=freedomhouse.org|language=en|access-date=6 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015026/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/armenia|archive-date=7 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> which is 6 points ahead of the previous estimate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/armenia|title=Armenia|website=freedomhouse.org|language=en|access-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206073546/https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/armenia|archive-date=6 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Armenia recorded unprecedented progress in the 2019 [[Press Freedom Index|World Press Freedom Index]] published by [[Reporters Without Borders]], improving its position by 19 points and ranking 61st on the list. The publication also confirms the absence of cases of killed journalists, citizen journalists or media assistants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rsf.org/en/armenia|title=Armenia : A revolution live-streamed {{!}} Reporters without borders|website=RSF|language=en|access-date=18 April 2019|archive-date=23 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423152125/https://rsf.org/en/armenia|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://armenpress.am/eng/news/971810/|title=Armenia improves positions in World Press Freedom Index by 19 points: Pashinyan confident in continuation of progress|website=armenpress.am|language=en|access-date=18 April 2019|archive-date=18 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418151639/https://armenpress.am/eng/news/971810/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Armenia ranks 26th in the 2022 report of The Human Freedom Index published by the American [[CATO Institute]] and Canada's [[Fraser Institute]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-01/human-freedom-index-2022.pdf|title=The Human Freedom Index 2023|work=Fraser Institute|access-date=22 June 2023|url-status=live |archive-date=22 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622140033/https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-01/human-freedom-index-2022.pdf }}</ref>

Armenia ranked 29th for economic freedom and 76th for personal freedom among 159 countries in the 2017 [[List of freedom indices|Human Freedom Index]] published by the [[Cato Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/2017-human-freedom-index-country-profiles.pdf|title=COUNTRY PROFILES|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126185410/https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/2017-human-freedom-index-country-profiles.pdf|archive-date=26 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index|title=Human Freedom Index|work=Cato Institute|access-date=26 January 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201014922/https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index|archive-date=1 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

These classifications may improve when data from 2018, including the period of the [[2018 Armenian Velvet Revolution|velvet revolution]] and thereafter, is analyzed.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

In October 2023 Armenia ratified signing the [[Rome statute]], whereby Armenia will become a full member of the [[International Criminal Court]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Armenian Parliament ratified the Rome Statute. What was it necessary for? |url=https://jam-news.net/armenia-ratified-the-rome-statute/ |date=3 October 2023}}</ref>
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