Azerbaijan: Violence against Women
After quickly glancing at the Russian-language Day.az online publication, I came across to an overwhelming number of articles dealing with violence again women in Azerbaijan. This week alone, the publication covers a woman killed by her nephew, a man in prison for having killed his wife, a mother beaten to death by her son, and a 21-year-old in court for having raped his 15-year-old sister.
And this all in a country of less than 9 million people.
Azerbaijan’s neighbor Armenia was condemned by Amnesty International for inaction against domestic abuse last week.
ANON on 24 Jan 2009 at 7:22 am #
Iam for and i promote violence against women! You armenians take our land, and now you tell us how to treat our women?!
Rena Safaralieva on 13 Feb 2009 at 6:09 pm #
If many of you – Azeri men fought with Armenians rather than with your women, the lands may not have been surrendered