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are the special issues (printed analogues were distributed in regions), shining{covering} about debatable problems gender theories, gender attitudes and relations in the most different areas of a public life. The research data resulted editions in a significant part are made by advisers of AGIC




THE GENDER RESEARCHES

In this section the gender researches are presented. The researches have been realized by the Azerbaijan authors with 1998 on present time




HOT LINE

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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 •   IN THE WORLD OF GENDER

SAVE – SISTERS AGAINST VIOLENT EXTREMISM CONFERENCE


2008122905_120Participants of the first SAVE conference which was held in the Palais Schönburg in Vienna, Austria (from left to right, from first row)
Read... 2008/12/29

USA SECT CHILDREN ABUSED & UNDERAGE GIRL MARRIAGES - REPORT


A high percentage of families at a Texas polygamous compound abused or neglected their children - and more than a quarter of girls age 12 and older were forced into underage marriage, according to a report from welfare officials
Read... 2008/12/29

ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION, TRADITIONS, NATIONAL LAWS, GENDER


France - A Private Feud Turns Into a National Issue - France Overrules Muslim Couple's Annulment
Read... 2008/12/29

QUESTIONS ABOUT STONING


What is stoning? Read... 2008/12/29

BRIDGING THE GENDER DIVIDE


2008120804_120The Secretariat's emphasis on bridging the gender gap in water issues and ways to incorporate women as a Major Group of Agenda 21 into the participation mechanisms
Read... 2008/12/08

CONJUGAL WRONGS DON'T MAKE RIGHTS - INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM, CHILD MARRIAGE & SEXUAL RELATIVISM


This thesis examines international feminist activism from the late nineteenth century to the present
Read... 2008/12/08

STATUS OF SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONVENTION ON ACTION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS


The Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings [CETS No.197] was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 3 May 2005 and opened for signature in Warsaw on 16 May 2005, on the occasion of the 3rd Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe member States
Read... 2008/12/08

SHOURA COUNCIL REJECTS PROPOSAL TO EASE SAUDI MARRIAGES TO FOREIGNERS


The Shoura Council yesterday rejected a recommendation to simplify regulations governing Saudis marrying non-Saudis
Read... 2008/12/08

THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S IN-DEPTH STUDY ON ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN


Read... 2008/11/26

UNIFEM ANNOUNCES US$19 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR 23 PROJECTS IN 29 COUNTRIES TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN


2008 Amount Higher than Total Disbursed since Inception of UN Trust Fund in 1996 / UNIFEM Executive Director: "Extremely Encouraging Trend"
Read... 2008/11/26

COMBATING IMPUNITY TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN


Women must play an active role in peace negotiations, and in the effort to combat impunity for rape and other acts of violence, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in a statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Tuesday
Read... 2008/11/26

CAMEROON’S FIRST LADY TO BECOME GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR UNESCO


2008111506_120The First Lady of Cameroon, Chantal Biya, will become a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for education and social inclusion, the agency announced today
Read... 2008/11/15

UK SLIPS FURTHER DOWN GLOBAL GENDER EQUALITY LEAGUE


Britain is failing to bridge the gender gap, with increasing numbers of women earning less than men, an international thinktank has warned
Read... 2008/11/15

WOMEN COUNT CALLS FOR PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON WOMEN


Likens this moment in history to JFK's 1961 commission of the same name
Read... 2008/11/15

NO MORE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS! RESPECT FOR ALL OUR RIGHTS NOW!


2008111507_120The year 2008 marks 60 years since the United Nations' approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first step in the establishment of a legal system mandating inalienable rights for all people. Under this system, governments, institutions and social actors have the duty not only to acknowledge and respect universal human rights but also to promote them actively and guarantee their enjoyment. Indeed, each and every one of us is called to uphold this ethical and moral imperative
Read... 2008/11/15


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 •   GENDER ISSUE'S NEWS

EMPOWERING YOUNG WOMEN TO LEAD CHANGE A TRAINING MANUAL


2008111203_120Empowering 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

MAYBE BABY


MAYBE BABY  is an intimate, provocative book that takes a new look at the emotional and physiological journeys of 6 women in their '30s and '40s as they pursue pregnancy through the world of Assisted Reproductive Technology, a multi-billion dollar industry on the cutting edge of medicine and science.
Read... 2008/08/22

APDIP AND APC WNSP RELEASE PUBLICATION ON GENDER AND ICT


This publication, with a foreword by Executive Director of UNIFEM, Noeleen Heyzer, looks at information and communications technology (ICT) for development through a gender lens and discusses ICT within a gender equality framework
Read... 2008/07/04

GENDER-RESPONSIVE BUDGETING NEWSLETTER


2008040903_120UNIFEM's Gender Budgets Programme has begun publishing Gender Responsive Budgeting Newsletter, a quarterly publication that seeks to encourage knowledge sharing from gender budget initiatives around the world, share news on progress made in incorporating a gender perspective into budgeting, and inform practitioners of new resources and publications on gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).
Read... 2008/04/09

WOMENLEAD IN PEACE AND STABILITY


2007121501_120Read the stories from an extraordinary group of women who are mediating conflict, caring for refugees, restoring communities and building more responsive governments. These 15 leaders came together for CEDPA's WomenLead in Promoting Peace and Stability workshop, held Oct. 23-Nov. 17, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Each has a powerful story to tell about the conflict in her country, and how women are building lasting peace by rewriting constitutions, negotiating human rights protections, securing access to land and water, and changing mindsets that limit women's roles in their communities.
Read... 2007/12/15

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 •   GENDER IN AZERBAIJAN

SEMINAR SERIES ON RESEARCHING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE


Seminar series organized by UNFPA's Combating Gender Based Violence Project and Caucasus Resource Research Center on the occasion of 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence concluded on December 4, 2008 with a presentation on Gender and Gender Based Violence in Azerbaijan: Qualitative Approach in Research delivered by Dr. Farideh Heyat, PhD in Social Anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
Read... 2008/12/11

NEW VEILING IN AZERBAIJAN: GENDER AND GLOBALIZED ISLAM


European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 15, no. 4, 361-376 (2008)
Read... 2008/12/02

UNFPA’S GBV PROJECT JOINS EFFORTS WITH UNHCR AND SCFWCA TO PRODUCE A DOCUMENTARY ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND TRAFFICKING


In autumn of 2008 UNFPA CO, UNFPA's GBV Project in Azerbaijan and UNHCR CO joined efforts to produce an educational documentary film on Domestic Violence (DV) and Human Trafficking (HT) in Azerbaijan
Read... 2008/12/01

GBV PROJECT ENCOURAGES THE RESEARCH AND INFORMATION SHARING ON GBV IN AZERBAIJAN THROUGH SERIES OF EVENTS IN NOVEMBER 2008


In order to attract the attention of local academic community to the issue of GBV and give an impetus to further research of GBV in Azerbaijan UNFPA's GBV Project and CRRC jointly organise series of events in November of 2008
Read... 2008/11/29

UNFPA’S GBV PROJECT BRINGS “WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE”, A WORLD RENOWNED DOCUMENTARY SERIES ON GBV, TO AZERBAIJAN


Along with efforts to increase awareness and knowledge of the population about GBV in Azerbaijan GBV Project introduces the general public to the international experience of combating GBV
Read... 2008/11/28

MORE THAN HALF OF ACCUSED WOMEN IMPRISONED FOR MURDER


On Thursday the Women's Problems Research Center NGO conducted a roundtable session on the study of social problems of imprisoned  women and the assistance  in their resolution"
Read... 2008/11/28

UNFPA’S GBV PROJECT IN AZERBAIJAN: GENERAL PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON GBV


GBV Project in Azerbaijan together with State Committee on Family Women and Children Affairs developed two TV Clips promoting a single message of Stopping the Violence Against Women
Read... 2008/11/26

UNFPA’S GBV PROJECT CREATES TARGETED EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ON GBV FOR SELECTED POPULATION GROUPS IN AZERBAIJAN


The Awareness Campaign is one of the main elements within UNFPA's Combating Gender Based Violence in Azerbaijan Project (GBV Project)
Read... 2008/11/25

VICTIM SUPPORT GROUPS – NEW APPROACH TO ASSISTING VICTIMS OF GBV IN AZERBAIJAN


New approach to assisting victims of GBV is introduced as a part of UNFPA's GBV Project in Azerbaijan
Read... 2008/11/24

COUNTRY-WIDE SURVEY ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN


For the first time in Azerbaijan Combating Gender Based Violence (SC) Project (UNFPA) conducts a country-wide Survey on Domestic Violence and Violence against women
Read... 2008/11/22


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 •   EVENTS OF CENTER

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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 •   EVENTS OF NGO'S

TRAINING ON CLIMATE CHANGE FOR MEDIA AND NGOS


dsc00942_120_01On 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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 •   NEWS OF CONFERENCES

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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 •   ANALYTICS

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VIRTUAL MUSEIM

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.




EUROPEAN WOMEN’S THESAURUS

The European Women’s Thesaurus is the tool for definition and search of the "female" information in databanks, the Internet and the collection of women’s libraries, the documentary centers and archives. The European Women’s Thesaurus contains 2087 European terms.

In the Azerbaijan version of the Thesaurus are brought 589 terms reflecting sociopolitical realities of the Azerbaijan society, national and Islamic culture.




GENDER DIRECTORY

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.




AZERBAIJAN STATE COMMITTEE ON FAMILY, WOMAN AND CHILD PROBLEMS

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




THE NATIONAL DOCUMENTS

The section presents the international documents on achievement of equality between men and women and protection of human rights for women.




THE INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS

The section presents the international documents on achievement of equality between men and women and protection of human rights for women.




DATABASE OF WOMEN'S NGO

The database base of women’s NGOs includes the registered and unregistered organizations, women’s f groups. Attention! There aren’t practically precisely profile NGOs in Azerbaijan. For completeness of the information search is recommended to realize by several key words




DATABASE OF NGOS, CARRYING OUT GENDER PROJECTS

The database represents the information about the international and national projects on gender problems for the period 1998-2007. Search is carried out both by thematic key words and under names of NGOs






Human Rights in the XXI Century - Azerbaijan














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Regional Initiative of Women's Groups for Promoting ICT as a Strategic Tool for Social Transformation









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