[4] The HCA supports defending rights of ethnic and religious minorities, combating discrimination, protecting the rights of children, ensuring freedom of association and freedom of speech, providing health services to socially vulnerable citizens, safeguarding natural resources and forested areas, and implementing educational reforms.

The HCA claimed that joining the Eurasian Economic Union would severely limit civil liberties and press freedom and that Russia would pressure Armenia to adopt repressive laws and would seek to restrict the activities of NGO's.

[10][11] In 2017, the HCA was accredited by the Central Electoral Commission of Armenia to carry out observing and monitoring duties at polling stations during elections.

The report noted, "incidents of hatred and dangerous speech were largely driven by the religious viewpoints of the targeted individuals, their sexual orientation and their gender identity."

The HCA proposed that media outlets refrain from all discrimination and recommends the National Assembly to ban all forms of hate speech in line with Council of Europe standards.