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Monthly Updates

January 2023

A law further restricting the activities of political parties came into force on 11 January, raising the barriers for registration and requiring parties to submit detailed personal information on all members to the state. The space for political party operations in Azerbaijan is already miniscule – only one member of parliament is nominally independent – and analysts say the law will likely damage the already low public trust in parliament and political parties, provide the state with expanded opportunities for surveillance, and further inhibit freedom of association.  

December 2022

Azerbaijani government-backed protesters have blockaded the sole road connecting Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia since 12 December, causing shortages of food and medicine in the region. The protesters claim ethnic Armenians in the self-declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic are illegally exporting minerals to Armenia via the road, and Azerbaijani government officials have alternatively blamed Russian peacekeepers and Nagorno-Karabakh residents themselves for the blockade, as well as denied the blockade’s existence. Armenians and the international community have described the blockade as a ploy by Azerbaijan to exert more direct control over the disputed territory.

September 2022

Fighting on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border killed 207 Armenian soldiers, 80 Azerbaijani soldiers, and 4 Armenian civilians. Over 2,700 Armenian civilians were evacuated from the border area. Contrary to the two previous wars and long-running low-level hostilities between the two countries, the fighting did not involve the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, but Azerbaijan’s incursions into the internationally recognized borders of Armenia. Videos released online from the fighting showed what appears to be attacks on Armenian civilian infrastructure and the execution of Armenian prisoners of war by Azerbaijani forces. Azerbaijan has blamed undocumented Armenian provocations for the outbreak of fighting. 

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GSoD Indices Data 2012-2021

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Basic Information

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Population Tooltip
10 145 210
System of government
Presidential system
Head of government
Prime Minister Ali Asadov (since 2019)
Head of government party
New Azerbaijan Party
Electoral system for lower or single chamber
First Past the Post
Women in lower or single chamber
18.3%
Women in upper chamber
Not applicable
Last legislative election
2020
Head of state
President Ilham Aliyev
Selection process for head of state
Direct election (two-round majority)
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) date
15/05/2018
Latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) percentage of recommendations supported
69.11%
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Human Rights Treaties

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State Party State party
Signatory Signatory
No Action No action
United Nations Human Right Treaties
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
State Party
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
State Party
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
State Party
Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
State Party
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment
State Party
Convention on the Rights of the Child
State Party
International Convention on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
State Party
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 
Signatory
International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
State Party
International Labour Organisation Treaties
Forced Labour Convention
State Party
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
State Party
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention
State Party
Equal Remuneration Convention
State Party
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
State Party
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
State Party
Convention concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
State Party
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention
State Party
Regional Treaties
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
State Party
Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
State Party
Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
State Party
Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
State Party
Protocol No. 7 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
State Party
Protocol No. 12 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
Signatory
Protocol No. 13 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
No Action
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Attributes Over Time

Representative government neutral Representative Government
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Representative government neutral Fundamental rights
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Representative government neutral Checks on government
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Representative government neutral Impartial administration
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Representative government neutral Participatory engagement
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GSoD Indices

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