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Women In Azerbaijan
Women in Azerbaijan nominally enjoy the same legal rights as men; however, societal discrimination remains a problem.Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Azerbaijan (2011) (2011). ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the .'' Baku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statue Of A Liberated Woman
Statue of a Liberated Woman is a statue by Fuad Abdurahmanov. It was built in 1960 at the Public Square at the branching of Gurbanov and Cafar Cabbarli streets in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was inspired by the character of Sevil from the Jafar Jabbarly's play ''Sevil''. The act of publicly removing the veil symbolizes the transition of Azerbaijani women from seclusion to participation in Soviet society. Background Fuad Aburahmanov, the designer of the statue stated: :"The topic of emancipation of Azerbaijani women has attracted me for a long time. When I started work on the sculpture, for some reason I imagined an eagle that had become entangled in the net. She tears her bonds, finally, frees from them. One more moment, and it will soar into the sunny sky." Veil as a part of woman’s wardrobe was the trait of all cities where trade was developing. The anti-veil movement was initially started in 1908 in Baku by liberal bourgeoisie well before the Soviet Hujum in 1927. However, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands, part of which is in Turkey. The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several independent states, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyla Mammadbeyova
Leyla Alasgar gizi Mammadbeyova, née Zeynalova''Conquering the Skies''. Baku Magazine, #2 (22), March–April 2011; p. 72. ( Azerbaijani: ''Leyla Ələsgər qızı Məmmədbəyova''; 17 September 1909 – 4 July 1989), was the first Azerbaijani female aviator.The Proprietress of the Sky by I.Gadirova. ''Nash Vek''. 7 May 2004. Retrieved 6 June 2007 She also was the first female pilot of , of and of Southwest Asia. Career Mammadbe ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organized Crime And Corruption Reporting Project
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a global network of investigative journalists with staff on six continents. It was founded in 2006 and specializes in organized crime and corruption. It publishes its stories through local media and in English and Russian through its website. OCCRP works with and supports 50+ independent media outlets in Europe, Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In 2017, NGO Advisor ranked it 69th in the world in their annual list of the 500 best non-governmental organizations (NGO). History OCCRP was founded by veteran journalists Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu. Sullivan was serving as the editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and Radu worked with an early Romanian center. The team paired with colleagues in the region on a story looking at energy traders. The project showed traders were buying power at below production rates while the public was paying increasingly higher fees. In 2007 the project won the first ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments." The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. Its original focus was prisoners of conscience, with its remit widening in the 1970s, under the leadership of Seán MacBride and Martin Ennals to include miscarriages of justice and torture. In 1977, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the 1980s, its secretary general was Thomas Hammarberg, succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Court Of Azerbaijan
The Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan Republic ( az, Azərbaycan Respublikasının Konstitusiya Məhkəməsi) is an independent state body of the Republic of Azerbaijan which jurisdiction is prescribed by the Constitution of Azerbaijan. The Constitutional Court gives interpretation of the Constitution and laws based on petitions of the President of Republic, Milli Majlis, Cabinet of Ministers, Supreme Court, Prosecutor's Office and Ali Majlis of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. Overview To ensure the supremacy of the Constitution of Azerbaijan and protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals are the main objectives of the Court. The Constitution of Azerbaijan (adopted on November 12, 1995), interstate agreements (Azerbaijan is a party to), Law “On Constitutional Court” (adopted on December 23, 2003), other laws and the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court are the legal basis for the activity of the Constitutional Court. The President of Azerbaij ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Election Commission
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a central or state election commission, an election board, an electoral council or an electoral court. Election commissions can be independent, mixed, judicial or executive. They may also be responsible for electoral boundary delimitation. In federations there may be a separate body for each subnational government. An election commission has a duty to ensure elections are conducted in an orderly manner. Electoral models Independent model In the independent model the election commission is independent of the executive and manages its own budget. Countries with an independent election commission include Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabina Aliyeva
Sabina Yashar gizi Aliyeva ( az, Səbinə Yaşar qızı Əliyeva; born May 7, 1980), is an Azerbaijani civil servant, the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Azerbaijan Republic (since 2019). Biography Sabina Aliyeva was born in Baku on May 7, 1980. In 1996 she finished the secondary school № 8 in Baku with distinction. In this year she entered into the Law faculty of Baku State University and graduated from this university in 2000 with distinction. In 2002 she got master's degree on the specialty of State Law in the Law faculty of Baku State University. Since 2009 till 2012 she studied International relations in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 2016 Aliyeva received the PhD in Law. She defended the thesis on the specialty of "International Law; Human Rights". On November 29, 2019, Sabina Aliyeva was elected as the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the National Asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absheron District
Absheron District () is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the east of the country and belongs to the Absheron-Khizi Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khizi, Gobustan, Baku, Hajigabul, Salyan, and the city of Sumgait. Its capital and largest city is Khyrdalan. As of 2020, the district had a population of 214,100. Although the district shares the same name as the Absheron Peninsula, the area covered by the district is not conterminous, being further west and mostly inland. History Absheron District was founded in 1963 by the Soviet government to assure enough labour force, highly educated professional staff and necessary provisions are given to enterprises and firms, kolkhozes and collective farms, poultry and agrarian industries, construction centres, scientific-research institutes and laboratories present on the territories of Baku and Sumgait. There are many historical monuments on the territory of Absheron. For example, in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahar Muradova
Bahar Avaz Muradova (born 20 March 1962) is an Azerbaijani politician affiliated to the New Azerbaijan Party and former deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (2005–2019). Early life Born in Füzuli, Füzuli rayon on 20 March 1962, Muradova attended the Baku Light Industry Technical School, from where she received a diploma in textile industry. Later she joined the Baku State University to study Law. She did her doctorate in Political Science. Career In 1981, Muradova took up the job of supervisor at a textile factory in Baku. Later, she turned to politics and became a member of New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) in 1993 and has since held important positions within the party, including that of deputy chairman of party's female cadre and a deputy executive secretary. From 1995 to 2000, Muradova served in the Office of the Azerbaijani President. After winning the Azerbaijani parliamentary election in 2005, she was appointed the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
