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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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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
| KUWAIT CRITICISED OVER DOMESTIC WORKERS, STATELESS ARABS + "KAFEEL" SPONSOR-SYSTEM KEPT IN FORCE - GENDER
Human Rights Watch yesterday
criticised Kuwait
for abuses against foreign female domestic workers and depriving stateless
Arabs of their rights, but praised some improvements
Read... 2010/01/27
| EGYPT - WOMEN RECITING QURAN IN PUBLIC - DIVISIVE
Muslim cleric says such a call echoes a Western
agenda and would 'tempt men'
Read... 2010/01/27
| FRANCE MOVES CLOSER TO BANNING FULL MUSLIM VEIL
Critics Argue Proposed Move Would Be A Violation Of Basic Rights
Read... 2010/01/27
| IN LOVING MEMORY OF VALERIE JEFFS MACKERT
 Valerie was a
beautiful young girl with a smile that could light up any room
Read... 2009/12/05
| WOMEN WON'T WAIT - END HIV & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. NOW
1 December 2009. In
response to the World AIDS Day 2009 theme 'Universal Access and Human Rights',
the Women WON'T wait
Read... 2009/12/05
| YEMEN WOMEN FACE VIOLENCE & DISCRIMINATION
Women in Yemen
face systemic discrimination and endemic violence with devastating consequences
for their lives, Amnesty International said in a campaign report on Wednesday
Read... 2009/12/01
| GUATEMALA - WIDESPREAD RAPE & SEXUAL ABUSE OF WOMEN PRESSURES PUSH GOVERNMENT ATTENTION, ACTION
In Guatemala, drug trafficking, gang
violence, and a climate of impunity lead to widespread rape of women
Read... 2009/12/01
| NORWAY - PROSTITUTES BACK ON OSLO STREETS - NEARLY AT LEVEL AS BEFORE THE LAW BAN ON PURCHASE OF SEX SERVICES
 The number of foreign prostitutes on Oslo streets is nearly
back to what it was before the ban on the purchase of sex services
was introduced last year, public broadcaster NRK reports
Read... 2009/11/20
| AUTHOR ONAL FOUND REMORSE AMONG TURKISH 'HONOR' KILLERS
 Journalist Ayse Onal's
coverage of the Turkish men who murdered their sisters and mothers in
"honor" killings finds they often feel betrayed by their families
Read... 2009/10/26
| DEVELOPMENT & GENDER FOR EASTERN EUROPE, CAUCASUS & CENTRAL ASIA
The International Gender Policy Network (IGPN)
released an in-depth regional report on advocacy for development cooperation
and gender for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Read... 2009/10/26
| MEXICO: RURAL POVERTY HAS A WOMAN'S FACE
Some
transformations occur so imperceptibly that people only become aware of them
when the new reality has set in
Read... 2009/10/12
| NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY
Since 2000, Bangladesh has celebrated National
Girl Child Day each September 30
Read... 2009/09/18
| WOMEN, CHILDREN INCREASINGLY TARGETED IN SOUTHERN CLASHES
 Women and children are being increasingly targeted in the escalating
attacks against communities in Southern Sudanese states, exacerbating the dire
humanitarian situation, say officials
Read... 2009/09/12
| TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD PROGRAM SHOWN TO SIGNIFICANTLY DELAY CHILD MARRIAGE
An innovative program designed
and evaluated by the Population Council, in collaboration with government
agencies in Ethiopia,
has significantly reduced child marriage among young adolescent girls
Read... 2009/09/12
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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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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
| AZERBAIJANI FAMILY IN THE FOCUS OF THE NATIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Domestic violence continues to represent one of the most prevalent and less
visible forms of the gender based violence in Azerbaijan
Read... 2009/09/18
| LIFE BETRAYED: STOP TRAFFICKING BEFORE IT STARTS
Each year tens of young girls and women are recruited from Azerbaijan to
work in the sex industry abroad
Read... 2009/09/15
| FIRST LADY OF AZERBAIJAN NOMINATED TO AWARD OF “GREAT WOMAN OF XXI CENTURY”
 First lady of Azerbaijan,
President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, UNESCO and ISESCO Goodwill
Ambassador Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva was nominated to the award of "Great Woman of
the XXI century"
Read... 2009/08/24
| CHAIRPERSON OF STATE COMMITTEE FOR FAMILY, WOMEN & CHILDREN AFFAIRS MEETS UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE IN AZERBAIJAN
Chairperson of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children
Affairs Hijran Huseynova has met today here with Mark Hereward, new
Representative for the United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF) in Azerbaijan
Read... 2009/08/24
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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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