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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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SAVE – SISTERS AGAINST VIOLENT EXTREMISM CONFERENCE
 Participants 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
 The
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
 The 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!
 The 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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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
| 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
 UNIFEM'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
 Read
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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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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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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