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Within the “Sixteen-day” active campaign, a conference titled “Power to women, progress to the society”, devoted to the campaign against women’s violence started in Baku.
Chairman of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children, Hijran Huseynova stressed that the society must unite in the fight against women’s violence.
She said that prevention of violence against women is one of the important issues of the modern period.
“Today, this global problem concerns Azerbaijani society as well. We hope that improving the welfare of the population, further improvement of national and spiritual values in the family, as well as active propaganda carried out in regions of the country as part of the successful Azerbaijani economic development will lead to a successful solution to this problem,” Huseynova noted.
She also underlined that prevention of violence means strengthening of family institution as well as development of the country. “It is necessary to provide women subjected to violence with psychological, medical and legal assistance. It is also important to reintegrate them into the family and society,” the chairperson said.
Huseynova added that lack of awareness among women about their rights paves the way for further problems. “To prevent violence against women it is needed to protect their rights and create equal terms with men,” she stated.
Addressing the event, vice-president of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Pamela Patten, the UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan Antonius Broek, the Charge d’Affaires of the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan Derek Hogan, the deputy interior minister Oruj Zalov spoke around the topic.
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