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To the submitted addresses it is possible to receive legal, psychological and medical aid:
The Crisis Center:
t: 4943376
wcc@online.az
legal consultation. pre-judicial preparation of the documentation . psychological rehabilitation, consultations of the gynecologist. psychiatrist, neuropathologist.
MHAIDS Azerbaijan:
t: 5106614
mhaids@initiative.az
consultations of the gynecologist. psychiatrist, neuropathologist. venereologist, the organization of the specialized analyses
Research Center ⅁Tꍊ
t: 438 15 77:
areat@azeronline.com
Consultations in registry offices about an opportunity of the conclusion of the marriage contract at registration of a marriage as precautionary measure against economic violence over family.
LTD ᷠand Order튍
꠨050) 341 06 60
law_order@gender-az.org
legal consultation, drawing up of judicial claims , pre-judicial preparation of the documentation, participation in judicial sessions as the public defender (prosecutor)
쥡n World㯣ial Union
꠴97 10 58
Support to victims of human trafficking shelter for victims of human trafficking
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| p; IN THE WORLD OF GENDER |
PORTRAIT OF SUCCESS: VALERIE DANIELS-CARTER
What will it take for your dreams to be heard?
Read... 2011/07/14
| RUSSIA - WOMEN OPPOSE RESTRICTION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
On June 18, 2011, a demonstration called ‘Fight abortions, not women!' took place on Pushkin Square in Moscow, attended by an alliance of Feminist groups (Pro-Feminism, the Moscow Radical Feminist Group, and the Moscow Feminist Group), LGBT, and left-wing activist groups
Read... 2011/06/22
| FIRST EUROPEAN EQUAL PAY DAY MUST BE FOLLOWED BY CONCRETE TARGETS & MULTIDIMENSIONAL STRATEGY: EUROPEAN WOMEN'S LOBBY
 The European Women's Lobby (EWL) today welcomed the launch of the first ever European Equal Pay Day that will in 2011 fall on Saturday 05 March, an initiative that already existed in many Member States and that is supported by women's organisations
Read... 2011/06/22
| A NEW RUSSIAN WOMEN’S MOVEMENT - OR A CYNICAL POLITICAL PLOY?
 MOSCOW - They dress in all white, their insignia is the highest grade students earn in Russian schools, and their name essentially means "the teacher's pets."
Read... 2011/06/09
| ISLAMIC FEMINISM - LANA ABU AYYASH
 A Jordanian woman leader reflects on her path to Islamic feminism, including how she founded Sister Power, the online social network for Muslim women
Read... 2011/05/31
| JAPAN - PREGNANT WOMEN & NEW MOTHERS NEED VERY ACCURATE INFORMATION ON SAFE DISTANCES FROM NUCLEAR RADIATION
 Pregnant women and mothers of young babies in Japan are getting mixed signals about how far away they should be from the nuclear-power-plant disaster
Read... 2011/05/03
| WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS - TARGET OF VIOLENCE & REPRESSION + ACTIVE AGENTS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Margaret Sekaggya, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders submitted her third report to the UN Human Rights Council
Read... 2011/05/03
| UN WOMEN’S BACHELET OUTLINES NEW PEACEBUILDING INITIATIVE
 UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet today announced a new initiative to boost women's roles in conflict resolution
Read... 2011/03/28
| LIBYAN WOMAN STRUGGLES TO TELL MEDIA OF HER ALLEGED RAPE & ABUSE BY GOVERNMENT MILITIA
A Libyan woman burst into the hotel housing the foreign press in Tripoli on Saturday morning in an attempt to tell journalists that she had been raped and beaten by members of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's militia
Read... 2011/03/28
| SAUDI ARABIA - WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE IS UNCLEAR FOR APRIL 23 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Women may not again be allowed to vote when municipal elections take place next month, it has been reported both in the local media and by sources
Read... 2011/03/28
| UNHCR - UN REFUGEE AGENCY HIGHLIGHTS REFUGEE AND DISPLACED WOMEN ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
A Sudanese refugee in Chad's Amboko camp. Displacement is often hardest on the elderly
Read... 2011/03/28
| CHINA - FORCED ABORTION - ONE-CHILD POLICY
 Friends grieve at the funeral of a 21-year-old Chinese woman who died following a forced abortion in February, 2009
Read... 2011/02/07
| HUNDREDS OF WOMEN DIE FOR “HONOUR” EACH YEAR
 Did 22-year-old Saima Bibi scream out as she was electrocuted at her parents' home in their village near the southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur in Pakistan?
Read... 2011/02/05
| TRAFFICKING FILM - "NOT MY LIFE" - WOMEN & GIRLS
Human trafficking is a multi-billion industry that is worth an estimated US$32 billion each year
Read... 2011/02/05
| HEADSCARF CONTINUES AS POLITICAL ISSUE
A ruling by an administrative court banning female candidates for academic posts from being veiled during an admission examination has brought the headscarf back to the front of Turkish politics, and reignited tensions between secularist and religious forces
Read... 2011/02/05
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TAJIKISTAN - PLIGHT OF ABANDONED WIVES OF MIGRANT HUSBANDS
When men migrant workers abroad cut ties with home in Tajikistan, and stop sending money, their wives/families are ill-equipped to fend for themselves
Read... 2010/12/29
| UZBEKISTAN - CASE AGAINST RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHER-JOURNALIST UMIDA
Rights groups ridicule suggestions that Umida
Ahmedova's images libel Uzbek nation as a whole
Read... 2010/01/27
| UZBEK MINISTERS TACKLE SEX TRADE
Sex
trafficking has made a rare appearance on the agenda of a government meeting in
Uzbekistan
Read... 2009/09/12
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THE LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN
The book «the Legal Handbook for Women » is released in Tbilisi
Read... 2010/12/13
| SECRETS OF SEXUAL FORCED LABOUR IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS
 I have vivid memories of a school trip to
Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres north
of Berlin:
the crematories, the so-called ‘Station Z' built for the extermination of
prisoners in 1942, the infirmary... I have no recollection, however, of the
camp brothel
Read... 2010/01/27
| “KYZYL-SHAFAG AND KERKENJ: HISTORY OF VILLAGE SWAP UNDER KARABAKH CONFLICT”
The Heinrich Boell Foundation,
Germany and the Independent Research Group "NOVATOR" conducted
a presentation of the book titled "Kyzyl-Shafag
and Kerkenj: History of Village Swap under Karabakh Conflict" on June 9 in Caucasus Research
Resource Center
Read... 2009/06/10
| GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN PRACTICE: A TOOLKIT
 The integration of a gender
perspective into programming and policy-making - Gender Mainstreaming - has
become a key priority of UNDP
Read... 2009/03/31
| EDUCATING WOMEN TO EDUCATE A NATION
 The present work is dedicated to a unique phenomenon
which is the first secular school for Muslim girls in the Islamic world
Read... 2009/03/14
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TODAY MARKS THE BIRTHDAY OF AZERBAIJAN'S FIRST LADY, MEHRIBAN ALIYEVA
 Azerbaijani First Lady, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, UNESCO and ISESCO Good-Will Ambassador and Member of the Azerbaijani Parliament, Mehriban Aliyeva, is celebrating her birthday today, on August 26
Read... 2011/08/26
| AZERBAIJAN – PLIGHT OF SINGLE MOTHERS
 Alimony and welfare provision fails to provide adequate support
Read... 2011/06/10
| TRADITIONAL FAMILY INSTITUTE IN AZERBAIJAN IS IN CRISIS
The traditional family institution in Azerbaijan is in a period of deep crisis, said in an interview with Objective TV (obyektiv.tv) Head Women's Crisis Centre Matanat Azizova
Read... 2011/06/08
| AZERBAIJAN - FEARS FOR UNSCHOOLED GIRLS' FUTURES
 Many parents take girls out of school as for early marriage
Read... 2011/05/31
| PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OF LALA AGHAYEVA LAMBERT "SHADOWS. LATE AFTERNOON"
 On 2 february 2011 a personal exhibition of Lala Agayeva Lambert named "Shadows. Late Afternoon" opened in the Art Gallery of the Museum Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan
Read... 2011/02/10
| AZERBAIJAN - HIJAB BAN FOR SCHOOLGIRLS IS CONTROVERSIAL
Azerbaijan's education ministry has banned schoolgirls from wearing headscarves to class, causing outrage among the more devout in this Muslim-majority country
Read... 2011/02/10
| BIRTH RATE REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH IN 16 YEARS IN AZERBAIJAN
In 2010, 165,000 babies have been born and 56 600 persons died in Azerbaijan
Read... 2011/01/26
| MEHRIBAN ALIYEVA - THE MOST ACTIVE AND MODERN FIRST LADY, ACCORDING TO EKHO KAVKAZA WEBSITE
An article titled "First Ladies of Caucasus" by Russian journalist Oleg Kusov was posted on the www.ekhokavkaza.com
Read... 2011/01/26
| MEHRIBAN ALIYEVA: AZERBAIJAN PAYS GREAT ATTENTION TO DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
 The first-ever World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education under the motto "Building the Wealth of Nations" has started today in Moscow
Read... 2010/09/30
| PRESIDENT OF HEYDAR ALIYEV FOUNDATION MEHRIBAN ALIYEVA BECOMES YEAR'S MOST MERCIFUL AND ACTIVE PARLIAMENTARIAN
The staffers of the "Gadin Dunyasi" (Women's World) magazine have today visited the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to announce results of its survey, which named President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, UNESCO and ISESCO goodwill ambassador, MP Mehriban Aliyeva the Most Merciful and Active Parliamentarian of the Year
Read... 2010/07/15
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THE LIBRARIAN OF AGIC HAS NEW PUBLICATION
The
Final Report of the FP6 Research project - Coordination Action on Human Rights
Violations (CAHRV): Gendering Human Rights Violations: The case of
interpersonal violence
Read... 2008/04/07
| 2007, December
Read... 2008/01/09
| Global Fund for Women - On the forum in Tbilisi
Read... 2006/06/03
| Gender Study and ICT
Read... 2006/05/16
| New editions in library of AGIC
Read... 2006/05/03
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TRAINING ON CLIMATE CHANGE FOR MEDIA AND NGOS
 On
20 November 2007 UNDP Azerbaijan together with the experts of the Azerbaijan
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources and the Social - Ecology Centre
"EcoSphere" (the chief of NGO " EcoSphere" is Firusa Sultan-zade) organized a one day training for journalists and Azeri NGO representatives on
global climate change.
Read... 2007/11/26
| New project of the Citizens' Labour Rights Protection Leagua
Read... 2006/05/16
| The Help to Jobless Women
Read... 2005/12/30
| "Êàmillik" Develops
Read... 2005/01/20
| Debate in a Civil Society
Read... 2005/01/03
| Social Trusteeship
Read... 2005/01/01
| In October 2004
Read... 2004/10/01
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FLORIDA CONSORTIUM FOR WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES CONFERENCE, "GENDERED AND RACIALIZED TECHNOLOGIES OF CHANGE: MOVING DISCREDITED KNOWLEDGE FROM THE MARGINS TO THE CENTER"
Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change: Moving Discredited Knowledge from the Margins to the Center
Read... 2010/11/05
| CALL FOR PAPERS FOR BOOK ON THE ROLE OF GENDER IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel,
Dr. Ruth Stanley - Free University Berlin
Read... 2008/09/24
| NATIONAL STATEHOOD AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES
Date: October 10-11, 2008
Read... 2008/09/24
| SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN RUSSIA IN THE LIGHT OF GLOBALIZATION PROCESSES
Date: October 2-10, 2008
Read... 2008/09/24
| FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON WOMEN AND THE MEDIA, ENTITLED “VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INFORMATION OR SPECTACLE?” WILL BE HELD ON 27-28 OCTOBER 2008, IN VALENCIA, SPAIN
The Congress is organized by
the Valencia Regional Authorities for Social Affairs in collaboration with the
Zero Tolerance Foundation (Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana
Frente a la
Discriminación y los Malos Tratos) and the Coso Foundation
(Fundación de la
Comunidad Valenciana para el Desarrollo de la Comunicación y la Sociedad)
Read... 2008/09/24
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GENDER DIRECTORY
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is the data-base of all the national actors involved in women's and gender issues work. The data base supposes to include the gender focal points:㴡te agencies, National parliament, Business sector, Mass media outlets, 鮴ernational organizations, functioning in Azerbaijan, Funding institutions, functioning in Azerbaijan,鰬omatic corps, functioning in Azerbaijan, the individual actors (individual feminists, writers and poets, artists, scientific womenghts lawyers). Attention! The directory is connected by links to databases of women·Os (both registered and non-registered), NGOs carrying out gender projects, researchers and teachers.
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AGIC promotes creating the history of civil society and those initiations by studying womanవblic activity in the end of XIX - the beginning of XX centuries. The collection of the visual evidences and oral reminiscences allows not only to recalled the events, become utterly absorbed in the atmosphere that reigned at that time but also to comprehend, understand how and what efforts were demanded for establishing of Caucasus womenghts. The information collected here will serve also as a supporting material for teachers, historians and researchers working in the sphere of womand gender problems. They will get an opportunity of using these unique documents as historical references, visual and oral evidences.
In Azerbaijan by initiative of the President Ilham Aliev in accordance with Presidential Decree dated by 6 of February 2006 State Committee on Family, Women and Children issues has been established. Chairwoman of the Committee is Mrs. Khidjran Guseynova. She is the professor of the Baku State University and the first woman- the doctor of political sciences in Azerbaijan