On International Women’s Rights Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns of the plight of nine women journalists imprisoned in Azerbaijan, including three correspondents for Meydan TV, an ...

Through legislation, state programs, international cooperation, and public awareness campaigns, Azerbaijan has sought to build a more inclusive ...

Aysel Umudova and Ulviyya (Ali) Guliyeva, currently in custody in relation to the so-called "Meydan TV" case, have faced sexual harassment, rape threats and - in Guliyeva's case - physical violence ...

Only one month after the U.N.'s premier climate summit in Dubai last month, Azerbaijan—the next hosts—announced a 28-man organizing committee with not a single woman. Following justified outrage, they ...

BAKU, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan on Friday added 12 women to its COP29 organising committee after criticism of the body, which had previously been entirely all male. Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas ...

On February 28, independent Azerbaijani journalist Fatima Movlamli was detained as part of an ongoing investigation against an independent media outlet Meydan TV. Movlamli is the ninth woman ...

In the wake of the Iran protests, Western feminists must stand in solidarity with South Azerbaijani women, who are fighting against ethnic discrimination and gender apartheid. As I write, the Iranian ...

67.6% of women in Azerbaijan considering such screening about associated thalassemia health risks and costs is lower than the global average of 84.5% 5.2% of the global population carry hemoglobin ...

5.2% of the global population carry hemoglobin abnormalities, resulting in 300,000 to 400,000 children born with severe hemoglobinopathies annually. Thalassemia, a hereditary hemoglobinopathy, occurs ...