Azerbaijan’s national parks and nature reserves: the reality of wildlife protection

Work to drain groundwater in the centre of Baku’s Buzovna settlement has entered its final stage about six months after it began, but state institutions have yet to disclose the project’s cost, source of financing, client, contractor or documents...

Falling births, fewer marriages and the concentration of people around Baku are turning demography from an abstract statistic into a long-term economic risk. The Great Return may partly reshape Azerbaijan’s settlement map, but constructing houses is...

Azerbaijan is expanding its network of inclusive classrooms, but a substantial gap remains between a child’s right to learn alongside their peers and the daily realities of school life. A ramp and an enrolment order do not necessarily mean that a...

The construction of a sewer line serving properties controlled by the Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation has developed from a local infrastructure project into a story of opacity, damaged roads, environmental risks and the prolonged disregard of...