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1-01-2009    
The ICRC in Azerbaijan

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News published over the last 12 months
3-11-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: ICRC helps provide clean drinking water
Baku (ICRC) – In the village of Hasangaya, in Terter district, almost 100 internally displaced people (IDPs), mainly women and children, now have unimpeded access to safe drinking water thanks to work carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with local authorities and community members.
(News)
25-9-2009  
Azerbaijan: ICRC restores water supply to frontline school and health point
Baku (ICRC) – A health point and a secondary school serving over 3500 returnees of the two frontline villages of Yuhari Qiyamadinli and Mirzanagilar in Agjabadi district, now have access to clean water thanks to work carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with local authorities and community members.
(News)
24-8-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: families of missing to share memories on the International Day of the Disappeared
Baku (ICRC) – Families of people missing in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will gather in five Azerbaijani cities, Shamkir, Ganja, Aghjabadi, Barda and Baku from 25 to 30 August to commemorate the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August).
(News)
30-7-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: a step towards bringing answers to the families of missing people
BAKU (ICRC) – The first phase of a nationwide effort to collect and centralize data on missing persons in connection with the Nagorny Karabakh conflict has been completed.
(News)
12-6-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: two nurses receive Florence Nightingale Medal
Baku (ICRC) – The delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Azerbaijan and the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan are organizing a ceremony on 12 June to honour two nurses who have been awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal.
(News)
15-5-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: parliament and ICRC promote rights of missing persons and their families
Baku (ICRC) – The fate of more than 4,500 persons who went missing during the Nagorny Karabakh conflict remains unknown. For the families, this means severe and long-lasting pain.
(News)
13-2-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: Collection of data on missing people moves forward
Baku (ICRC) – The families of more than 4,400 people missing in connection with the Nagorny Karabakh conflict still have not found out what became of their relatives.
(News)
6-2-2009  News release
Azerbaijan: body of Karabakh resident handed over under ICRC auspices
Geneva (ICRC) – The body of a resident of Nagorny Karabakh killed on the Line of Contact on 26 January 2009 has been transferred today from Azerbaijan to Nagorny Karabakh.
(News)
16-12-2008  News release
Azerbaijan: ICRC helps restore water in conflict-affected village
Baku (ICRC) – Over 1,200 internally displaced people living near the front line in the village of Shukurbayli, in the Fizuli district of south-western Azerbaijan, now have access to clean water thanks to the rebuilding of the water supply system undertaken by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in cooperation with local authorities and community members.
(News)
19-11-2008  News release
Remains of Azerbaijani soldier returned under ICRC auspices
Geneva (ICRC) – The remains of an Azerbaijani soldier were transferred today from Nagorny Karabakh and handed over to the Azerbaijani authorities.
(News)
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Baku, orthopaedic rehabilitation center supported by ICRC. Prosthesis workshop.©ICRC/F.Clarke/ref. az-e-00055
The ICRC has been working in Azerbaijan, in the context of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, since 1992 and continues to monitor the situation of civilians living along the “Line of Contact” with Nagorny Karabakh and the international border with Armenia.


It focuses on the issues of missing persons and on visiting people held in connection with the conflict as well as other vulnerable detainees. The ICRC also supports the authorities in tackling tuberculosis in prisons and in making limb-fitting services available across the country.

The delegation promotes the implementation of international humanitarian law and its integration into the training of the armed forces as well as into university courses and school curricula. It supports capacity-building within the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society.

In Nagorny Karabakh, it also supports primary health care services.

Presence (2009): 91 staff, including 10 expatriates

Event
    2-7-2009
    Our world. Your move. Events in Azerbaijan.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Event Includes Photo

    15-5-2009
    Azerbaijan: humanitarian endeavour through children's eyes
    Baku (ICRC) – Some 120 pupils from Baku's schools took part in a drawing competition held in connection with the 150th anniversary of the battle of Solferino, which led to the creation of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Event Includes Photo

Feature
    30-9-2008
    Azerbaijan: safe playgrounds for children
    Although the hostilities in the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan were suspended over a decade ago, their deadly legacy lives on in the form of landmines. The ICRC endeavours to prevent the havoc they cause.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    25-9-2008
    Azerbaijan: War reporters learn about the laws protecting them
    On 3 and 4 July 2008, the ICRC and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) held a workshop on the rights that journalists have under international humanitarian law and international human rights law when they are on professional assignment in armed-conflict areas.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Feature

    12-4-2007
    Azerbaijan: TB mortality rate in prisons is decreasing
    With the support of the ICRC, the TB mortality rate in Azerbaijani prisons has decreased 10-12 fold since 2000. Just a few years ago, a 38 year-old detainee could never have imagined that he would not only survive TB, but be fully cured.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Feature Includes Photo

    23-3-2006
    Azerbaijan: improving access to treatment for tuberculosis in prisons
    When Natiq Agiyev was sixteen years old he watched his older brother Shahin fade away over the course of a year. He remembers that doctors did not want to look after his brother because his family could not find money for the treatment of Shahin's tuberculosis (TB).
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Feature

Operational update
    31-12-2006
    Azerbaijan: ICRC activities 2006
    In 2006 the ICRC focused on the issue of missing persons and those detained in relation to the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. It also continued to support the authorities in trying to bring prison tuberculosis under control, to promote international humanitarian law among authorities, armed forces, universities and schools, and to cooperate with the Azerbaijani Red Crescent Society.
    (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan)
    Operational update

Photo Collection
    27-12-2006
    Nagorny Karabakh: the lasting consequences of an unresolved conflict
    Twelve years after the cease-fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ICRC protection and assistance activities continue. The fate of thousands of missing persons remains unknown. Mines and unexploded ordnance continue to kill and maim. Many displaced persons have still not been able to go home.
    (Info resources\Photos\Eastern Europe and Central Asia)
    Photo Collection Includes Photo

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