Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review 16th Session of the UPR Working Group REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN Submitted 9 October 2012   Joint Submission by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, NGO in General Consultative Status with ECOSOC   and Center for National and International Studies (CNIS)          CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation          Mr Mandeep Tiwana, Email mandeep.tiwana@civivus.org Ms Renate Bloem, Email renate.bloem@gmail.com Tel +27 11 8335959, Web www.civicus.org   Center for National and International...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 03.06.2021 “…We have risked our lives, but you have taken away our rights…” The FB community continues to express its concern over the many disturbing anomalies being faced in the political and economic arena. A major worry permeating society is the tension on the state borders with Armenia and the growing probability of a new war. FB users discuss relations with Turkey, together with opposition and civil activities in terms of their extension from official to public levels; denounce significant social contrasts in the country and  dramas unaddressed by the state...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 28.01.2021 “…Why is Azerbaijan managed as a company, while SOCAR as a separate state…?” The FB community is concerned with the protest of the martyrs’ families, the sentence of the person who hit the human rights defender Ogtay Gulaliyev, the domestic situation in Russia, government re-shuffles, the protest of the handicapped, the nepotism in SOCAR and private business of bureaucrats, the role of Iran in the conflict and resistance to participation in post-conflict restoration; it reacts to and decries President Aliyev’s blaming of the Karabagh losses in 1992...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 13.02.2020 The dominating topic of FB were falsifications and results of the parliamentary elections, state violence during and  after elections, decision of REAL activist Erkin Gadirli to join new parliament, cancellation of the voting results in some precincts. The civil activist and REAL member Zohrab Ismayil writes about necessity of the alternative data to clarify the true winners in the precincts. Based on such data, he published the list of some of those who in reality won the race in their precincts.In precinct 11- Sehavet Soltanli, 12- Natig Jafarli, 16- Erkin...


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FB Digest@VoxPOPULI 29.12.2019 The most popular topics continue to be the results of local elections, preparation to the upcoming parliamentary elections, the detention and beating up of the local election candidate and popular blogger Mehman Huseynov, publication of the list of parliamentary election candidates by the ruling party YAP. The FB users widely and with great concern share news about disappearance of the blogger Mehman Huseynov, who ran for the local elections, and then by news that he was severely beaten up by policemen. Nurlan Libre, Ilkin Rustamzade, Azadlig Newspaper and many...


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