“Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans” (photo reportage from the 9-th training day)

On November 22, 2010, “Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan” Foundation finished the ninth training day in the frame of the project “Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans”. The project is funded by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and implemented by the “Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan” Foundation. Trainings encompass the topic of social rights as part of human rights and psychological activities in order to provide the young people from orphanages with necessary capacity to integrate into society and to help them to be responsible citizens and free individuals in Azerbaijan. 20 young people, 14-17 year old have been involved in the trainings and the venue for the trainings is the orphanage number 2 in Mardakan settlement of Baku city. Moreover, the training participants live in the orphanage and do not have any parental support and access to social life. The legal part of the trainings is provided by the professional lawyer Ulviyya Rahimova. On the 9-th day of the trainings, Ms. Rahimova informed the training participants of gender-based violence, or violence against women (VAW), which is human rights problem throughout the world. And then, she continued the training dealing with the types of violence, major victims, threats and main reasons for domestic violence. The participants in small groups with the help of the trainer discussed state of gender-based violence in Azerbaijan and defined the actions that can be considered as domestic violence in general. At the end of the training, extracts from the law regarding violence were disseminated among the trainees. The psychological part of the trainings is conducted by professional psychologist Aynur Babirova. Ms. Babirova informed the training participants about psychological reasons for violence, especially domestic violence. The trainer communicated the psychological effects, social consequences and physical consequences of violence and sexual violence to the training participants. The trainer arranged a simulation game regarding violence in families and the participants expressed their viewpoints and gave their feedback on the topic at the end of the training.