Full Coverage: Azerbaijan

11/08/2007 The editor-in-chief of a pro-government daily paper in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to prison on criminal defamation and insult charges - propelling Azerbaijan to the top of the list of countries jailing journalists in Europe and Central Asia.
From Committee to Protect Journalists

07/30/2007 Thirteen years after the cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, villagers still living along the Azerbaijani frontline remain trapped in a state of neither peace nor war.

03/01/2007 Azerbaijan has become a major source of world oil. But the nation's number of registered drug addicts has also tripled over the past ten years, and a crime underworld has wrapped its tentacles around the oil industry.

12/12/2005 Eleven years after Armenia fought in southern Azerbaijan over a breakaway republic, unexploded landmines continue to make arable land too dangerous to sow and put locals at risk in their daily lives. Discover the process that's slowly giving villagers back their land, and meet some of those the mines have touched.

11/16/2005 In a region dominated by ethnic divisions and a history of violence, development projects are building more than livelihoods--the dividends of peace, education, and understanding have spread across Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

10/31/2005 Author Lauren Brodsky explores what the campaign efforts of one political candidate indicate about the state of democracy in Azerbaijan as the country prepares for November 6 general elections.

09/12/2005 The start of election campaigning has reignited the controversy over how independent the country’s new public service television station is.

08/18/2005 As part of The Great Volga River Route project, an International Workshop on Sustainable Development and World Heritage took place on 28-31 July 2005 in Bucharest, Romania.The aim is to link young people through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and engage them in the preservation and promotion of World Heritage and Biosphere sites.

05/26/2005 High level "celebrations" of the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline have made no reference to the continuing disregard for the rights and safety of people who live in its path. BP is the major shareholder.

05/25/2005 A Baku in Azerbaigian si è tenuta la cerimonia di apertura del tratto zero dell’oleodotto Baku-Tbilisi-Cheyan (Btc), che una volta completato sarà il più lungo al mondo. Il progetto da quattro miliardi di dollari è stato fortemente voluto dagli Stati Uniti, desiderosi di sfruttare il ricchissimo bacino petrolifero del Caspio. Altri due rapporti delle organizzazioni ambientaliste criticano l’insicurezza della pipeline verificata anche da un’indagine del parlamento inglese. Tra i finanziatori dell’oleodotto oltre a Banca Intesa, che sotto le pressioni ha deciso di ritirarsi dal progetto, rimane San Paolo Imi alla quale viene chiesta una scelta di responsabilità sociale. Intanto anche la Cina sul campo energetico sta vivendo un momento di carenza che porta a uno sfruttamento delle risorse idriche e minerarie con conseguenti problemi ambientali e sociali.

04/25/2005 The Knit for Kids project has provided over 250,000 sweaters--crafted by volunteer knitters across the United States--to needy kids around the world. Joan McKeon, the 200,000th sweater knitter, recently visited recipients in an Azerbaijan orphanage.

08/27/2004 UNDP and the government of Azerbaijan are partnering to shape up the country’s e-governance programme. The proposed national governance network will also help curb corruption in Azerbaijan.

08/24/2004 The U.S. defense secretary’s recent visit to Azerbaijan and recent comments by the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe are fueling speculations that the former communist country may be one of future military sites for the Pentagon’s rapid deployment force. The U.S. announced last week that it will pull 70, 000 troops from Europe and East Asia as part of the Pentagon’s shift to more mobile armed forces.

07/28/2004 Construction of a strategic pipeline that is to run from Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean has been stopped after the environmental authorities in Georgia found that the British Petroleum-led consortium that is building it had failed to get the proper clearances.

07/28/2004 Construction of a strategic pipeline that is to run from Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean has been stopped after the environmental authorities in Georgia found that the British Petroleum-led consortium that is building it had failed to get the proper clearances.

04/22/2004 Azerbaijan is about to adopt a new national programme to combat human trafficking in the next few days, as the scale of the problem is becoming ever more evident and is threatening to bring international sanctions against the country.

03/02/2004 Already a target of criticism for its likely damage to the environment, the BTC oil pipeline is now the focus of labor protests as well. Workers say they are being forced to work seven days a week for subsistance wages and subjected to discrimination.

03/02/2004 Already a target of criticism for its likely damage to the environment, the BTC oil pipeline is now the focus of labour protests as well. Workers say they are being forced to work seven days a week for subsistence wages and subjected to discrimination.

02/06/2004 L'Azerbaïdjan traverse sa pire crise des droits de la personne depuis dix ans, tandis que les forces gouvernementales se livrent à la torture, aux passages à tabac et à des arrestations massives contre l'opposition politique dans le pays, indique Human Rights Watch dans un nouveau rapport.

02/04/2004 Environment and human rights groups slammed the Royal Bank of Scotland for providing a loan to the controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, in spite of the bank’s own environmental rules. Royal Bank’s role in the project will be confirmed with the signing of the pipeline financial package in Baku.