Azerbaijan Continues Crackdown on Civil Society

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Azerbaijan and notes that the government accepted numerous broad recommendations in a wide range of areas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting human rights education, and equality. The government accepted recommendations regarding freedom of speech and association, particularly those that implied approval of its current measures in these areas. It is disappointing that the government relegated for further study a series of recommendations on the need to protect LGBT people from discrimination, to reform…

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