Zaruhi Valeriani Batoyan (Armenian: Զարուհի Վալերիանի Բաթոյան; born 29 September 1979), is an Armenian political figure, journalist and disability rights activist, and the former Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Second Pashinyan government.
In 2012, she attended the Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) training program offered by Mobility International USA in Eugene, Oregon.
Between 2013 and 2017, she coordinated the Union of Legal Entities "National Alliance for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities".
As an expert on the rights of persons with disabilities, she worked with the United Nations Development Programme, Armenia Caritas, Armenia Mission, Armenian branch of the Philharmonic Mission, Armenian branch of the British organization OXFAM and other organizations.
[4] On 11 June 2018 she was appointed Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs[5][6] until 18 January 2019.