NGO stands up for gay rights in Azerbaijan

Lindsay A. Lazarski, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Abstract

Azerbaijan is one of 11 countries reporting to the UN Committee monitoring the Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women at its current session. The government officials reporting to CEDAW, as the committee is known, also expressed concern over trafficking in persons in Azerbaijan, and the low representation of women in decision-making. But there is one issue that was not on their radar: the rights of some 200 lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women.