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As of 2020, there were 22 women in the 125-seat parliament, including the Speaker of the National Assembly. The percentage of female members of parliament increased from 11 to 17.6 percent between 2005 and 2020. [7]
In Azerbaijan, 11% of women aged 20–24 years old who were married or in a union before age 18. The adolescent birth rate is 48.1 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2019, up from 43.5 per 1,000 in 2018.
Azerbaijan’s legislation does not contain any punitive measures for physical or online abuse and harassment against women. In March 2021, multiple Telegram groups shared sex tapes and nude photographs of Azerbaijani women, among them journalists, like Fatima Movlamli, and civic activists, like Narmin Shahmarzade.
Shahla Ismayil leads Women’s Association for Rational Development (WARD), a member of Human Rights House Azerbaijan. WARD empowers women and promotes gender equality and has a lot to be proud of, having pioneered dozens of significant initiatives empowering women over the years.
In Azerbaijan, feminist activists endure pressure from the authorities, harassment and hate from strangers as they stand up for countless women across the country protesting domestic violence and femicide.
In November 2022, Azerbaijan repealed job restrictions on women’s employment, working with the World Bank to show that these roles posed no specific threat to women’s health. Instead of across-the-board restrictions, the new rules adopt a health risk-based approach to certain jobs.
The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 79th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament. [2]
Women human rights defenders have faced threats, coercion, violations of their right to privacy and smear campaigns that are gender specific and target them as women. This type of gender-based violence and discrimination aims to silence their critical voices and discredit their work.
Gender equality in Azerbaijan is guaranteed by the country's constitution and legislation, and an initiative is in place to prevent domestic violence. Azerbaijan ratified a United Nations convention in 1995, and a Gender Information Center opened in 2002. A committee on women's issues was established in 1998. The Universal Declaration of Human ...
In Azerbaijan over the past five years, measures have been further strengethened to ensure gender equality, promote the culture of gender equality as well as women’s empowerment, with changes introduced in respective legislative acts, and implementation of gender policy improved at central and regional authorities, and şelf-governing bodies (mun...