Ahmad Shahidov asked his collogue Simon Panek to bring clarification on the issue of his being pro-armenian or not Ahmad Shahidov, Head of the Azerbaijani Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (AIDHR) wrote an open letter to Šimon Pánek, Executive Director and founnder of “People In Need” Humanitarian and non profit organization on Novemeber 28. […]
On Friday the President Ilham Aliyev received in Baku a chairman of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann. During the meeting Spielmann stressed the importance of conducting the international conference on the theme: “Human Rights and the role of national judges in the application of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental […]
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule had a Monday evening meeting with a group of civil society representatives in Baku. He expressed concern about the current situation and the facts of restrictions on human rights in Azerbaijan. “The European Union admires your dedication, despite the restriction you are facing. We are watching closely the situation […]
«Since July this year another and more systematic narrowing the scope of the activities of civil society in Azerbaijan is observed,” stated former PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan ,Christopher Strasser. Currently, he is the Ombudsman of the German government. In an interview with German television station N-TV, he recalled the arrests of human […]
The Baku prison number 1 violated the confidentiality of correspondence of the contained therein human rights defender Intigam Aliyev and his lawyer Anar Gasymly. As the lawyer told Turan, there are no problems with the conditions of Aliyev. However, bureaucratic obstacles are created to the realization of the right to defense. So records prepared by […]
Over the last 14 years the number of the registered drug addicted persons in Azerbaijan increased by more than two times. According to the State Statistics Committee, in 2000, there were 14010 drug addicted people, and in 2013- 28,376. At the same time, in 2013, for the first time with a diagnosis of “drug addiction” […]
According to the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan the number of abortions is constantly growing. Thus, in 2000, women aged 15 to 49 years made 95.200 abortions, in 2013 there were – 146,600. Per thousand women in 2000 there were an average of 7.8 abortions, and in 2013 – 10.4. For every one hundred births […]
The Working Group of Experts will hold on August 27 press conference at the UN office in Baku, and will present a primary data on the impact of business on human rights in Azerbaijan. Experts are in the country for several days, and their purpose is to find out and evaluate the sate of the […]
The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) stated that it is in shock after a near-fatal attack on the well-known journalist Ilgar Nasibov in Azerbaijan. With this attack, which was particularly shocking in its violence, the alarming deterioration of human rights record has reached the point of no-return. According to the statement, a journalist […]
The Azerbaijanis living compactly in the Derbent region of Dagestan protest actions against the unlawful decisions of the leadership of this country, was announced at today’s press conference at the International Press Center, organized by the leadership of the magazine “Azerbaijan Dunyasy.” The magazine’s editor Eldar Ismail said that the reason for the protest was […]
Former political prisoners are concerned about the conditions of the “prisoners of conscience,” said Elshan Hasanov, the coordinator of the Public Alliance “Azerbaijan has no political prisoners.” Despite old age and disease, a known human rights activist Leyla Yunus is kept in intolerable conditions. She is not provided with proper medical care, cannot receive the […]
United Nations human rights experts* today condemned the growing tendency to prosecute prominent human rights defenders in Azerbaijan, and urged the Government “to show leadership and reverse the trend of repression, criminalization and prosecution of human rights work in the country.” “We are appalled by the increasing incidents of surveillance, interrogation, arrest, sentencing on the […]
The Azerbaijani government has been waging an unprecedented drive since July against human rights advocates, independent journalists, and their supporters. On 14 May, Azerbaijan assumed the chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s ministerial committee. Recent events make clear that the country is the most repressive of the council’s 47 members. A number of media-support organizations […]
The Nobel Women’s Initiative calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to release human rights defenders Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus. Leyla is the founding director of the Peace and Democracy Institute in Baku and a friend of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. The activists have been detained now for over two weeks. Leyla Yunus’ health has dramatically deteriorated while in […]
A meeting of representatives of political parties in the country dedicated to the issue of political prisoners and government pressure on civil society took place on Friday in the office Classic Popular Front Party . A number of political parties participating in the event reached 14. However, among them were not representatives of the National […]
Ahmad Shahidov asked his collogue Simon Panek to bring clarification on the issue of his being pro-armenian or not Ahmad Shahidov, Head of the Azerbaijani Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (AIDHR) wrote an open ...
On Friday the President Ilham Aliyev received in Baku a chairman of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielmann. During the meeting Spielmann stressed the importance of conducting the international conference on the theme: ...
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule had a Monday evening meeting with a group of civil society representatives in Baku. He expressed concern about the current situation and the facts of restrictions on human rights ...
«Since July this year another and more systematic narrowing the scope of the activities of civil society in Azerbaijan is observed,” stated former PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan ,Christopher Strasser. Currently, he is ...
The Baku prison number 1 violated the confidentiality of correspondence of the contained therein human rights defender Intigam Aliyev and his lawyer Anar Gasymly. As the lawyer told Turan, there are no problems with the ...
Over the last 14 years the number of the registered drug addicted persons in Azerbaijan increased by more than two times. According to the State Statistics Committee, in 2000, there were 14010 drug addicted people, ...
According to the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan the number of abortions is constantly growing. Thus, in 2000, women aged 15 to 49 years made 95.200 abortions, in 2013 there were – 146,600. Per thousand ...
The Working Group of Experts will hold on August 27 press conference at the UN office in Baku, and will present a primary data on the impact of business on human rights in Azerbaijan. Experts ...
The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) stated that it is in shock after a near-fatal attack on the well-known journalist Ilgar Nasibov in Azerbaijan. With this attack, which was particularly shocking in its ...
The Azerbaijanis living compactly in the Derbent region of Dagestan protest actions against the unlawful decisions of the leadership of this country, was announced at today’s press conference at the International Press Center, organized by ...
Former political prisoners are concerned about the conditions of the “prisoners of conscience,” said Elshan Hasanov, the coordinator of the Public Alliance “Azerbaijan has no political prisoners.” Despite old age and disease, a known human ...
United Nations human rights experts* today condemned the growing tendency to prosecute prominent human rights defenders in Azerbaijan, and urged the Government “to show leadership and reverse the trend of repression, criminalization and prosecution of ...
The Azerbaijani government has been waging an unprecedented drive since July against human rights advocates, independent journalists, and their supporters. On 14 May, Azerbaijan assumed the chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s ministerial committee. Recent ...
The Nobel Women’s Initiative calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to release human rights defenders Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus. Leyla is the founding director of the Peace and Democracy Institute in Baku and a friend of the Nobel ...
A meeting of representatives of political parties in the country dedicated to the issue of political prisoners and government pressure on civil society took place on Friday in the office Classic Popular Front Party . ...