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Aygun is a freelance journalist publishing in Azerbaijani and regional media, including her current work as a multimedia producer at Voice of America. She has also worked on international documentary film festivals including CineDOC-Tbilisi and DokuBaku and is the founder of Sevil, an international women’s documentary film festival in Azerbaijan.
As media provide a platform for politicians and celebrities to unleash barrages off homophobic statements, activists fight to provide legal protection for queer people in Azerbaijan. This is the analysis of the selected news articles (100 hate speech cases, published from 2015 to 2021) made in collaboration with Queeradar LGBTQI+ monitoring platform and OC-Media
Rusiyanın işğalı milyonlarla ukraynalı üçün ölüm, terror və qeyri-müəyyənlik gətirdi. Davam edən münaqişə nəticəsində çox sayda insan didərgin düşüb. Kyiv, Xarkiv, Çerniqov, Mariupol və digər şəhərlərdə davam edən atışmalar hələ ki, ölkənin qərb regionuna, xüsusən də Lvivə çatmayıb. Məhz buna görə, bir çoxları Lvivdən təhlükəsizlik kanalı kimi istifadə edir. Ukraynda yaşayan azərbaycanlı və könüllü olaraq didərginlərə yardım səylərinə qatılan Həsən Mirzəyev öz təəssüratlarını Amerikanın Səsi ilə paylaşıb.
Animal rights activist Yelena Simakina has been actively rescuing, treating and relocating stray animals for nearly seven years. In addition, the protection of animal rights is one of the main issues that Yelena Simakina has been fighting for all these years. These volunteer activities include rescuing animals, covering all medical expenses, providing proper care for the animals, and vaccinating and sterilizing them in a timely manner. He keeps the rescued animals in a private shelter in Hovsan settlement. Yelena Simakina complains that 8 dogs, which she spent on material and moral resources, were taken away by the staff of the Center for the Care of Stray Dogs. She has filed a lawsuit against the Toplan Stray Dog Care Center. She says that 8 dogs taken by Topla's staff have official passports, vaccination and sterilization documents. Nevertheless, Yelena's repeated official appeals to Toplan were ineffective.
The story of a transgender woman in Azerbaijan.
One morning, 8 years ago, Gunay Mammadova became completely blind. And it changed a lot in her life. The disability didn't stop her, on the contrary, Gunay started to make her wishes come tru, she actively participates in social projects. She's one of the actresses in ESA theater in Azerbaijan.
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