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The protection of LGTB rights today is considered part of the progressive Western politics, while the Islamic world appears now to the public eye as a wild land ruled by brutality and homophobia. However, the situation was reversed only a couple of centuries ago: in the West, homosexuality was considered a crime, while the rest of the world was rather indifferent to it. It was the Europeans who spread homophobia everywhere, and the fundamentalists took the imported European views as their own tradition.

It is no coincidence that Western politicians and media today are putting pressure on Azerbaijan, calling it to secure LGBT rights. However, a comparison of the LGBT-related facts, based on the 2019 report drafted by ILGA itself, shows that there is no significant difference in terms of LGBT rights in Azerbaijan and many other European countries.

UEFA has denied Volkswagen from displaying Pride-themed adverts during the semi-final matches in Russia and Azerbaijan.

On 10 June, a new EU-funded project to support modern, innovation driven, and sustainable civil society was launched in Azerbaijan.

ILGA-Europe on May 17 published its annual “Rainbow Europe Map and Index, rating 49 European countries on their legal and policy situations for LGBT+ people.

Behavior within the social unit of family can often be observed on a larger scale, that of individual social groups, and, sometimes, entire states. The patriarchal family, as an example of the family advocated by the main religions, is copied at other levels. Man is the head of a family, clan, social group, autocratic state.

However, in the early years, women still could not fully comprehend the significance of the rights they had gained, and the relics of feudal patriarchal way of life hindered the handling of women's issues in Azerbaijan. Therefore, the issuance of decrees, resolutions and regulations and the adoption of laws did not mean actual gender equality.

When speaking of myths, we have to agree upon certain boundaries, because a myth (“word”, “speech”) is a boundless notion. This Greek word can mean so much in our communication: from extreme fiction to something incredibly deeply rooted, a kind of higher truth.

In this article, I will analyze how the right to abortion is implemented practically and legally, comparing the situation in Azerbaijan and in other countries of the world. I would like to emphasize the importance of finding the "golden mean" in this matter, given that either extreme—tight restrictions on abortion and the absolute reign of liberal freedoms—creates a set of problems of its own.

According to the report published by the World Economic Forum in 2021, Pakistan ranks 153rd among 156 countries for gender parity in different areas of life.

Unlike many Muslim countries but resembling many Christian ones, population growth in Azerbaijan has slowed dramatically, and the current rate of births per woman, 1.9 children per life time, is now below replacement level, although some further increases will occur because of the larger number of potential mothers now.

Just as many Azerbaijanis, especially in recent years, have taken refuge in Poland in the hope of making more money, many Poles go to other European countries or the United States for the same purpose.

In the mid-1930s, the landscape of Azerbaijani cinema was very odd. The ideology that prevailed in all Soviet culture, including cinema, seemed to pass the films made in Azerbaijan by.

The EU signed the convention on June 13, 2017, but Council of Europe members Russia and Azerbaijan did not.