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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 «AREAT»
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 “Law and Order”:
ò: (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)
«Clean World» Social Union
ò: 497 10 58
Support to victims of human trafficking shelter for victims of human trafficking
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CHINA - FEMALE IMAMS FOR MUSLIM WOMEN'S INDEPENDENT MOSQUES
It is 5:50 in the morning, and dark shadows scurry through narrow alleys to the mosque, as the call to prayer echoes from a minaret in Kaifeng
Read... 2010/08/10
| GIRLS WITH AUTISM FACE CHALLENGES OF WOMANHOOD
Katie's eyes twinkle mischievously from across the classroom, sparkling from behind her red hair falling over her face
Read... 2010/08/10
| USA - WOMEN, HOUSING & SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Overview of Sexual Violence and Homelessness
Read... 2010/08/10
| TOP UN OFFICIALS DEBATE ROLE OF CULTURE IN WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
The role of culture in promoting the empowerment of
women and upholding human rights was hotly debated today by senior United
Nations officials, activists and academics as the UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) meets in New York to push for women and girls to be at the
forefront of efforts to achieve development targets
Read... 2010/07/07
| WOMEN’S ROLE IN A WARMING WORLD
 In June climate negotiators will reconvene in Bonn, Germany for an
interim meeting to discuss the working text of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, the international treaty that aims to
stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would
prevent climate change's worst effects
Read... 2010/06/02
| GERMANY - LEGALIZATION OF PROSTITUTION BROUGHT MORE EXPLOITATION THAN EMANCIPATION TO WOMEN - REPORT
Read... 2010/06/02
| RUSSIA - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN WIDESPREAD - AI REPORT
Russian authorities should take more measures to prevent violence
against women, Amnesty International said in its latest annual report issued
Thursday
Read... 2010/06/02
| SMOKING CAUTIONS FOR WOMEN - UN
Women
increasingly targeted by advertisers who used gimmicks to associate smoking
with beauty and gender liberation
Read... 2010/06/02
| WOMEN SPEARHEAD FLOOD MANAGEMENT IN EASTERN INDIA
 Having lost everything to the floods in 2000, the women in villages of Bengal decided to take rehabilitation efforts into their own hands and formed almost 500 self help groups
Read... 2010/04/24
| SAUDI ARABIA - WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT A CHALLENGE - STUDY
JEDDAH: In spite of promising policies and programs to encourage the full participation of women in the Saudi labor market, less than 15 percent of the Kingdom's work force is made up of women, says a recent study
Read... 2010/04/24
| USA - STATE OF UTAH - FETICIDE LAW CAN PUT MISCARRIAGE ON TRIAL
Under a new Utah law, women who miscarry under certain conditions are open to murder charges and life sentences
Read... 2010/04/24
| TURKISH PROBE REIGNITES THE 'SATURDAY MOTHERS'
With bright red carnations and laminated posters, the Saturday Mothers of Turkey sit in silence, demanding information about people who disappeared in the 1990s
Read... 2010/04/24
| WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT LIFTS OBSTACLES TO ACHIEVING DEVELOPMENT GOALS, BAN SAYS
More than a decade
after world leaders agreed to eliminate all forms of discrimination against
women, their empowerment remains a necessary element in attaining development
targets, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today
Read... 2010/03/06
| CANADA - MAIL-ORDER BRIDES A BOOMING BUSINESS
Three to six months worth of e-mails, a 14-day visit
to Russia,
and a new wife
Read... 2010/03/06
| JAPAN: CAREERS ON HOLD FOR MOST WOMEN
 Tomoko Ando and her husband
divorced because she refused to quit her job as a lawyer and start a family
Read... 2010/01/27
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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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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
| EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN TO LEAD CHANGE A TRAINING MANUAL
 Empowering Young Women to Lead Change is an easy to follow resource
manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a
host of issues that are important to them
Read... 2008/11/12
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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
| TIME TO STOP CHILD MARRIAGES
The Dilara Aliyeva Women's Rights Society has released a report on its ‘Little Brides' project, revealing that in some regions girls are getting married as young as 12 or 13 years old
Read... 2010/05/06
| EARLY AND KINDRED MARRIAGE HARMFUL
A project devoted to ending early and kindred marriages was presented today in the Media Centre by the joint working group on application of international human rights standards
Read... 2010/04/28
| PROJECT: ASSISTANCE TO SINGLE- MOTHERS
The "Legal and Psychological Assistance to Divorced Women" project was discussed today in the Media Center
Read... 2010/04/28
| AZERBAIJAN'S STATE COMMITEE PROPOSES TO RESTORE TITLE OF MOTHER-HEROINE
 The State Committee for
Family, Women and Children's Problems proposes to restore title of
Mother-Heroine, the committee chairwoman Hijran Huseynova said at a press
conference
Read... 2009/12/05
| AZERBAIJAN BANS CHILDREN UNDER 15 YEARS OLD TO WORK
Azerbaijani
parliament has banned child labor
Read... 2009/12/05
| AZERBAIJAN RELEASES STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
 The
Azerbaijani parliament held a hearing entitled "Say NO to violence against
women" on Dec. 2
Read... 2009/12/05
| AZERBAIJAN NOTES RISE IN CRIMES COMMITTED BY WOMEN
The number of crimes committed
by women has recently increased in Azerbaijan, chairperson of the
State Committee for Problems of Family, Women and Children Hijran Huseynova
said at the press conference
Read... 2009/12/05
| CHILDREN ARE FUTURE OF AZERBAIJAN, LET'S NOT BE INDIFFERENT TO THEIR PROBLEMS: PRESIDENT OF HEYDAR ALIYEV FOUNDATION
"Children are future of Azerbaijan. Let's
not be indifferent towards their problems," Azerbaijan's
First Lady, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Goodwill Ambassador of
UNESCO and ISESCO Mehriban Aliyeva said addressing a national conference on
Child Protection Reform in Azerbaijan,
which was dedicated to the Year of Children and the 20th anniversary of UN
Convention on Child Rights
Read... 2009/10/23
| THE STAFF MEMBERS OF THE OMBUDSMAN OFFICE ATTENDED THE ROUND TABLE ENTITLED “CHILD RIGHTS IN FAMILY RELATIONS”
Staff members of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the
Republic of Azerbaijan Yegana Jafarova and Faig Agayev attended the round table
"Child rights in family relation" organized by the State Committee on Family,
Women and Child issues in the frame of Child Year
Read... 2009/10/08
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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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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
| CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ISLAMIC FEMINISM - CATALONIAN ISLAMIC BOARD – SPAIN
The Third International
Congress on Islamic Feminism has been announced by Junta Islàmica Catalana
(Catalonian Islamic Board) and will take place in Barcelona, 24th-27th October 2008
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: State agencies, National parliament, Business sector, Mass media outlets, International organizations, functioning in Azerbaijan, Funding institutions, functioning in Azerbaijan, Diplomatic corps, functioning in Azerbaijan, the individual actors (individual feminists, writers and poets, artists, scientific women’s rights lawyers). Attention! The directory is connected by links to databases of women’s NGOs (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 woman’s public 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 women’s rights. The information collected here will serve also as a supporting material for teachers, historians and researchers working in the sphere of woman’s and 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