WOMENAID INTERNATIONAL
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Baku 370014 Azerbaijan Telephone: (994 50) 310 32 48 Fax: (994 12) 93 80 71 (994 12) 90 83 20 E-mail: tamilla@azeurotel.com |
| Contact Person/s: Rena Tahirova |
| Description of
Activities:
The
Azerbaijan Feminist Group is a relatively young organization that began
informally and is just now beginning to seek money for some concrete capacity
building and seed project funding. In the past, the vast percentages
of activities were discussion groups and debates organized by the feminist
group, with relatively little costs involved. One concrete and extremely
valuable project that was executed by the Feminist Group was women’s library
that was funded by the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
The money was used to buy books on women’s issues, thought and theory.
The library is accessible to women in Azerbaijan working with women’s issues,
human rights, or simply interested to know more about women’s issues. Published
Feminist Digest.
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| HAYAT is a development
and human rights organisation, which covers Ganja, Mingechevir, Sumgait.
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The
Azerbaijan Feminist Group was organized under the umbrella of Helsinki
Citizen’s Assembly in 1997. The group was formed and led by the Chairwoman
- Rena Tagirova. Twenty women, most of whom work professionally with
women’s rights and the right’s of the child, work as volunteers for the
Feminist Group. Quarterly meeting are organized to discuss current
and future activities as well as problems confronting women in Azerbaijan
during this period of transition. Decisions are made by group consensus.
The beneficiaries of the group’s activities are predominately women interested
in gaining more information and engaging in dialogue on feminist issues.
The group provides a forum for discussion and a source of information to
these women. The structure is informal and open and encourages all
women to participate. Outside advice and moral support for the organization
comes from different organizations and individuals, both regional and international,
who participate under the umbrella organization of Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly.
The main purpose of our organization is to introduce feminist concepts and debates to women in Azerbaijan. Of special concern is the debate over equality under the law and access to equal opportunities in practice for women in Azerbaijan. The following are the main tasks of our organization:
The Azerbaijan Feminist Group works in close cooperation with other women’s groups and institutions. Cooperation between Azerbaijan’s Women’s Institute and our Feminist Group are strong. Women participating in the institute have access to our library and women in our group have actively participated in the institute. Members of the Feminist Group have strong connections with other research institutes and women’s organizations, such as: Humanitarian Center “Yuva” and Women for Free Elections. |
| Board Members: Pervana Mammadova, Tamilla Zeynalova, Ilgama Sharifova, Nasilya Mammadova, Arzu Abdullayeva. |
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To
add your organisation or yourself to the CaucasusNOW Directory you
need to download and complete
the application form (Word document file) and send it to caucasusnow@womenaid.org
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CaucasusNOW
is a regional initiative created by WomenAid
International, a humanitarian aid and development
agency which first established its presence
in the Caucasus region in 1994. It also works in
partnership with and through its Caucasus partner, WomenAid in Georgia,
which is based in Tbilisi.
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