Lara Aharonian (born 1972) is a Lebanese Canadian Armenian rights activist.
The Lebanese Civil War started in 1975 and in the 1990s she left to study in Montreal.
She went to live in Armenia, and in 2003 she, Shushan Avagyan and Gohar Shahnazaryan created the Women's Resource Center in Yerevan.
In 2008 she founded a crisis centre as a refuge to women -survivors of sexual violence]].
[3] In 2014 she was honoured with a UN "Woman of Courage" award, presented by Kathy Leach who was the British Ambassador to Armenia.