Human rights in Azerbaijan, the Glossary
International organizations have frequently alleged that Azerbaijan has violated human rights standards established in international law.[1]
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94 relations: Abulfaz Elchibey, Amnesty International, Antireligion, Arab Spring, Arbitrary arrest and detention, ASAN service, Association of European Journalists, Ayaz Mutallibov, Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Azerbaijan in the Council of Europe, Azerbaijani Popular Front Party, Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, Baku City Executive Power, Baku Crystal Hall, Battery (crime), Caviar diplomacy, Civil and political rights, Committee to Protect Journalists, Constitution of Azerbaijan, Corruption in Azerbaijan, Council of Europe, Criminal procedure, Der Spiegel, Dubai, Electoral fraud, Enforced disappearance, European Convention on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, European External Action Service, European Parliament, European Stability Initiative, Eurovision Song Contest 2011, Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Eynulla Fatullayev, Facebook, Freedom House, Freedom in the World, Freedom of assembly, Freedom of religion, Freedom of religion in Azerbaijan, Freedom of speech, Freedom of thought, Heydar Aliyev, Human rights, Human rights in Asia, Human rights in Europe, Human Rights Watch, IFEX (organization), ILGA-Europe, Ilham Aliyev, ... Expand index (44 more) »
Abulfaz Elchibey
Abulfaz Gadirgulu oghlu Aliyev (Əbülfəz Qədirqulu oğlu Əliyev; 24 June 1938 – 22 August 2000), better known as Abulfaz Elchibey (Əbülfəz Elçibəy), was an Azerbaijani politician, Azerbaijani nationalist and Soviet dissident who was the first and only democratically elected President in post-Soviet Azerbaijan.
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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.
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Antireligion
Antireligion is opposition to religion or traditional religious beliefs and practices.
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Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) or the First Arab Spring (to distinguish from the Second Arab Spring) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
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Arbitrary arrest and detention
Arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention is the arrest or detention of an individual in a case in which there is no likelihood or evidence that they committed a crime against legal statute, or in which there has been no proper due process of law or order.
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ASAN service
The ASAN service (ASAN xidmət) is an Azerbaijani state agency for public services.
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Association of European Journalists
The Association of European Journalists (founded 1961, San Remo) is an organisation promoting the interests of journalists involved in European affairs.
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Ayaz Mutallibov
Ayaz Niyazi oghlu Mutallibov (12 May 1938 – 27 March 2022) was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the first president of Azerbaijan.
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Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic, was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds.
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Azerbaijan in the Council of Europe
Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on strengthening democracy and human rights, since 2001.
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Azerbaijani Popular Front Party
The Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (APFP; Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası) is a political party in Azerbaijan, founded in 1989 by Abulfaz Elchibey.
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Bakhtiyar Hajiyev
Bakhtiyar Ilyas oglu Hajiyev (Bəxtiyar İlyas oğlu Hacıyev; born c. 1982) is an Azerbaijani activist and blogger who served a prison sentence from 2011 to 2012 on charges of evading military service.
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Baku City Executive Power
The Executive Power of the Baku City, informally called the mayoralty of Baku or the Baku Soviet (Baksovet), is the executive authority of Azerbaijan's capital, Baku.
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Baku Crystal Hall
Baku Crystal Hall (Azerbaijani: Bakı Kristal Zalı) is an indoor arena in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact.
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Caviar diplomacy
Caviar diplomacy is a lobbying strategy of Azerbaijan, consisting of costly invitations to foreign politicians and employees of international organizations to Azerbaijan at the expense of the host country.
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Civil and political rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.
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Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.
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Constitution of Azerbaijan
The Constitution of Azerbaijan (Azərbaycan konstitusiyası) was adopted on 12 November 1995 by popular referendum.
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Corruption in Azerbaijan
Corruption in Azerbaijan is considered high and occurs at all levels of government.
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Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
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Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law.
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Der Spiegel
(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.
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Dubai
Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.
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Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.
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Enforced disappearance
An enforced disappearance (or forced disappearance) is the secret abduction or imprisonment of a person with the support or acquiescence of a state followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person's fate or whereabouts with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.
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European Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.
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European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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European External Action Service
The European External Action Service (EEAS) is the diplomatic service in charge of executing all international relations of the European Union.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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European Stability Initiative
The European Stability Initiative (ESI) is a think tank focusing on South East Europe and enlargement of the European Union.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2011
The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Eurovision Song Contest 2012
The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the 57th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Eynulla Fatullayev
Eynulla Emin oglu Fatullayev (Eynulla Fətullayev; born 25 September 1976) is an Azerbaijani journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of the news website Haqqin.az.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
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Freedom in the World
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.
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Freedom of assembly
Freedom of peaceful assembly, sometimes used interchangeably with the freedom of association, is the individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their collective or shared ideas.
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Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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Freedom of religion in Azerbaijan
Freedom of religion in Azerbaijan is substantially curtailed.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
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Freedom of thought
Freedom of thought is the freedom of an individual to hold or consider a fact, viewpoint, or thought, independent of others' viewpoints.
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Heydar Aliyev
Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev (Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev (Latin), Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев (Cyrillic),;,; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was an Azerbaijani politician who was a Soviet party boss in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1969 to 1982, and the third president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Human rights in Asia
The topic of human rights in Asia is one that encompasses an immense number of states, international governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
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Human rights in Europe
Human rights in Europe are generally upheld.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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IFEX (organization)
IFEX, formerly International Freedom of Expression Exchange, is a global network of more than 119 independent non-governmental organisations that work at a local, national, regional, or international level to defend and promote freedom of expression as a human right.
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ILGA-Europe
ILGA-Europe is the European region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
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Ilham Aliyev
Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev (İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev; born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who is the fourth and current president of Azerbaijan.
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Indefinite detention
Indefinite detention is the incarceration of an arrested person by a national government or law enforcement agency for an indefinite amount of time without a trial.
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Index on Censorship
Index on Censorship is an organisation campaigning for freedom of expression, which produces a quarterly magazine of the same name from London.
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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Jabbar Savalan
Jabbar Savalan (born c. 1991) is an Azerbaijani blogger and political activist.
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Lezgins
Lezgins (Лезгияр lezgijar) are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group native predominantly to southern Dagestan, a republic of Russia, and northeastern Azerbaijan, and speak the Lezgin language.
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LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".
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LGBT rights in Azerbaijan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Azerbaijan face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.
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List of heads of state of Azerbaijan
This is the list of the heads of state of Azerbaijan from 1918 to the present.
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Minority Rights Group International
Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international human rights organisation, headquartered in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala.
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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians until 2023, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaijanis until their expulsion during the 1990s.
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Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası) is a landlocked exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together.
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Nida Civic Movement
Nida Civic Movement (Nida Vətəndaş Hərəkatı), commonly referred to as N!DA or simply Nida, is an Azerbaijani civic movement founded in early 2011 to achieve democratic and social changes in Azerbaijan.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
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Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is the principal institution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) dealing with the "human dimension" of security.
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Ogtay Gulaliyev
Ogtay Gulaliyev is an Azerbaijani human rights activist.
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Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.
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Politics of Azerbaijan
The politics of Azerbaijan take place in an authoritarian system where elections are not free and fair, political opponents are repressed, civil rights are limited, human rights abuses are widespread, corruption is rampant, and power is concentrated in the hands of President Ilham Aliyev and his extended family.
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Prisoner of conscience
A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views.
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Proselytism
Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.
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Ratification
Ratification is a principal's legal confirmation of an act of its agent.
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Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization focused on safeguarding the right to freedom of information.
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Representative democracy
Representative democracy (also called electoral democracy or indirect democracy) is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public.
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Right to property
The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.
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Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding occupied territories.
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Secular state
A secular state is an idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.
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Social equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy, and equal access to certain public goods and social services.
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Strike action
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.
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Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
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Talysh people
The Talysh people (script, تالشان) or Talyshis, Talyshes, Talyshs, Talishis, Talishes, Talishs, Talesh are an Iranian ethnic group, with the majority residing in Azerbaijan and a minority in Iran.
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Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic
Talysh-Mughan, officially known as the Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic (Talysh: Толъш-Мъғонә Мохтарә Республикә, Tolış-Mığonə Muxtara Respublika), was a short-lived autonomous republic in Azerbaijan that lasted from June to August 1993.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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Vasif Talibov
Vasif Talibov (Vasif Yusif oğlu Talıbov; born 14 January 1960) is an Azerbaijani politician.
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Welfare
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.
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Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) is a body of independent human rights experts that investigate cases of arbitrary arrest and detention.
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World Press Freedom Index
The World Press Freedom Index (WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Azerbaijan
Also known as Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Freedom of assembly in Azerbaijan, Political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Racism in Azerbaijan, Social issues in Azerbaijan, Taleh Khasmammadov.
, Indefinite detention, Index on Censorship, Intellectual property, International law, Jabbar Savalan, Lezgins, LGBT, LGBT rights in Azerbaijan, List of heads of state of Azerbaijan, Minority Rights Group International, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, National Assembly, Nida Civic Movement, Non-governmental organization, North Korea, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ogtay Gulaliyev, Political prisoner, Politics of Azerbaijan, Prisoner of conscience, Proselytism, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Ratification, Reporters Without Borders, Representative democracy, Right to property, Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Secular state, Social equality, Strike action, Suffrage, Talysh people, Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic, The Washington Post, Torture, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council, United States Department of State, Vasif Talibov, Welfare, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, World Press Freedom Index.