Azerbaijan – Human Rights

By ALAKBAR RAUFOGLU contact.az WASHINGTON – Washington debates over responding effectively to Baku’s crackdown on activists Washington officials, leading rights campaigners agree that more need [more >>>]

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Following today’s meeting of the Board. The situation facing civil society in Azerbaijan is clearly problematic. The Board discussed the [more >>>]

By RAYHAN DEMYTRIE* BBC News “We are the last of the Mohicans,” says Leila Alieva. “First the government weakened the opposition, then targeted independent media, [more >>>]

By THOMAS DE WAAL* European Stability Initiative (ESI) Dear Colleague, In 1989 during some of the most tumultuous days of perestroika, Andrei Sakharov stood up [more >>>]

Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Written question No. 667 to the Committee of Ministers by Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, Group of the European People’s [more >>>]

PEN International PEN International is deeply concerned by the news that journalist and political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva is being subjected to a growing campaign of [more >>>]

By ARZU GEYBULLAYEVA Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso The #Caviardiplomacy continues to be successful. The alarm messages arriving from Azerbaijan on the systematic violation of human [more >>>]

Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) Future European Union High Representative for Foreign Policy was questioned about the EU’s stand on human rights in Azerbaijan, amongst [more >>>]

By David J. Kramer and Richard Kauzlarich The American Interest As the West has turned its attention to the Islamic State and the Ukraine crisis, [more >>>]

By ROBERT COALSON RFE/RL An Azerbaijani investigative journalist has been told that she faces arrest upon her return to Baku from a trip to meet [more >>>]