Azerbaijan

9.3 million people
5,290 USD GNI (PPP)
Internet:
Partly Free
Press:
Not Free
Not Free

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Statements

Azerbaijan: Adoption of Council of Europe resolutions is essential for human rights protection and democratic progress

Jan 21 2013 - 11:20am

The International Partnership Group, which includes Freedom House and other prominent international human rights organizations, urged the Parliamentary Assembly in the Council of Europe to make a strong call for Azerbaijan to improve its deteriorating human rights record.

Issues: 
Freedom of Expression, Human Rights Defense, Intergovernmental Bodies, Internet Freedom, Media Freedom
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia
Statements

Seeking a More Free Internet through Multi-­Stakeholder Dialogue

Nov 14 2012 - 4:20pm

Freedom House led a delegation of civil society leaders and online activists from around the world to Baku, Azerbaijan last week for the 7th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the UN's flagship conference for discussing global Internet policy. Following the IGF, 17 organizations and individuals signed on to a joint statement to highlight the concerns they raised throughout the Forum, and to offer recommendations to governments, internet companies, and international organizations on how to better protect internet freedoms.

Issues: 
Freedom of Expression, Internet Freedom
Regions: 
Americas, Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe
Press Release

Projects Promoting Open Internet in Myanmar and Syria Win Freedom House Competition

Nov 10 2012 - 4:45am

November 10, 2012 – A project offering internet users in Syria a way to securely connect to the internet and another to establish a forum to monitor internet censorship in Myanmar were selected as the winners of Freedom House’s IGF Incubator Challenge, an international competition to fund Internet freedom initiatives. U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Richard L. Morningstar presented the winners - Anas Helali from Syria and Htaike Htaike Aung from Myanmar - at a ceremony held in the Old City of Baku on November 10.

Issues: 
Internet Freedom
Regions: 
Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Middle East and North Africa
Press Release

New Criteria Will Help Define ‘Political Prisoners’

Oct 4 2012 - 3:33pm

Freedom House welcomes the resolution passed October 3 by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) that sets concrete criteria for what defines a “political prisoner,” the first time such criteria has been documented by a major intergovernmental organization.

Issues: 
Civil Society, Human Rights Defense, Intergovernmental Bodies, Rule of Law
Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia, Western Europe

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Special Reports

Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On

“Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On,” marks the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. The retrospective essay examines the changes in the political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well as includes graphs and rankings that illustrate the region's performance in the annual Freedom House publications Freedom in the World and Freedom of the Press. The report  concludes that there is a serious and disturbing failure to embrace democratic institutions in most of the post-Soviet region.

Regions: 
Central and Eastern Europe/Eurasia

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