Azerbaijan - UN Member States must hold Azerbaijan to account for deteriorating human rights situation, failing to implement previous commitments

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Geneva, 29 April 2013: The member states of the United Nations should hold Azerbaijan to account during its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 30 April 2013 for its failure to protect basic human rights. The International Partnership Group on Azerbaijan, coordinated by ARTICLE 19, and local organisations urge the UN to take Azerbaijan to task for failing to implement the commitments it made after its first review in 2009. In its national report to the UPR, Azerbaijan stated that the right (...)

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