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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

JAPAN: CAREERS ON HOLD FOR MOST WOMEN


2010012702_120Tomoko 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


2009120503_120Valerie 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


2009111904The 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


2009102601_120Journalist 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


2009091203_120Women 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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 •   OUR PARTNERS FORM CENTRAL ASIA INFORM

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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 •   GENDER ISSUE'S NEWS

SECRETS OF SEXUAL FORCED LABOUR IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS


2010012704_120I 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


2009033105_120The 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


2009031408_120_01The 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


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

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 •   GENDER IN AZERBAIJAN

AZERBAIJAN'S STATE COMMITEE PROPOSES TO RESTORE TITLE OF MOTHER-HEROINE


2009051802_120_04The 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


2009120201_120_01The 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”


2009052501_120_03First 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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 •   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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