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AZERBAIJANI JOURNALIST KHADIJA ISMAYILOVA RECEIVES YOUNG WOMEN OF THE CAUCASUS FOR PEACE AWARD
ARMINFO
Monday, March 25, 21:26
Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova has received the award
"Young Women of the Caucasus for Peace". The award was introduced in
2011 in memory of the human rights defender Anahit Bayandur.
Unfortunately, Ismayilova was unable to receive the award personally,
as she could not come to Armenia. Zaruhi Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
gained the second place, and Malikat Jabirova (Dagestan) gained the
third place. To note, a total of 16 people applied for participation.
Gulnara Shahinian, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery, a member of the Council of Democracy Today NGO, said that
when their movement was established two years ago, nobody believed in
its future. "But we are going ahead, and this is already the second
award ceremony. The first one took place in Tbilisi last year.
Unfortunately, our colleagues from Azerbaijan were not able to come,
though all the necessary conditions had been created for them",
she said.
She stressed that the award is a contribution to the future. She
said that there is a good deal of groundwork, which will be put in
practice in the future. "Together with our Azerbaijani colleagues,
we are studying the possibility return of the refugees. Our colleagues
from the OSCE Minsk Group speak of the need for the forced migrants'
return, but who has asked the migrants what they want or whether they
want to return at all? And this is what we, as an independent NGO,
are going to take up", she stressed.
In the meantime, Shahinyan pointed out that it is time for the nations
of the South Caucasus countries to solve their problems themselves
and to decide themselves what kind of future they want to have. "We
need international organizations as friends and colleagues, but not
mediators. We have already grown up and we can decide our future
without any mediators", she said.
The international conferences "Caucasus - our common home" and
"Twenty years of women's movement for peace in the Caucasus"
were held in Yerevan on March 23-24. Women from all the Caucasus
countries participated in the conference, except the representatives
of Azerbaijan and Karachay-Cherkessia.
ARMINFO
Monday, March 25, 21:26
Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova has received the award
"Young Women of the Caucasus for Peace". The award was introduced in
2011 in memory of the human rights defender Anahit Bayandur.
Unfortunately, Ismayilova was unable to receive the award personally,
as she could not come to Armenia. Zaruhi Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
gained the second place, and Malikat Jabirova (Dagestan) gained the
third place. To note, a total of 16 people applied for participation.
Gulnara Shahinian, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of
Slavery, a member of the Council of Democracy Today NGO, said that
when their movement was established two years ago, nobody believed in
its future. "But we are going ahead, and this is already the second
award ceremony. The first one took place in Tbilisi last year.
Unfortunately, our colleagues from Azerbaijan were not able to come,
though all the necessary conditions had been created for them",
she said.
She stressed that the award is a contribution to the future. She
said that there is a good deal of groundwork, which will be put in
practice in the future. "Together with our Azerbaijani colleagues,
we are studying the possibility return of the refugees. Our colleagues
from the OSCE Minsk Group speak of the need for the forced migrants'
return, but who has asked the migrants what they want or whether they
want to return at all? And this is what we, as an independent NGO,
are going to take up", she stressed.
In the meantime, Shahinyan pointed out that it is time for the nations
of the South Caucasus countries to solve their problems themselves
and to decide themselves what kind of future they want to have. "We
need international organizations as friends and colleagues, but not
mediators. We have already grown up and we can decide our future
without any mediators", she said.
The international conferences "Caucasus - our common home" and
"Twenty years of women's movement for peace in the Caucasus"
were held in Yerevan on March 23-24. Women from all the Caucasus
countries participated in the conference, except the representatives
of Azerbaijan and Karachay-Cherkessia.