Children's Rights in Azerbaijan: Law, Reality, and Challenges

More than 1,000 complaints by Azerbaijani consumers were resolved in their favour in the first five months of 2026, while businesses returned more than 152,000 manats to customers, according to the State Agency for Antimonopoly and Consumer Market...

Amendments to Azerbaijan’s Law on Psychiatric Care have entered into force, providing for the digitalization of psychiatric care records, new grounds for conducting psychiatric examinations without a person’s consent, and additional measures during...

Overcrowding in Azerbaijan’s penitentiary system is becoming one of the country’s most significant institutional challenges amid a rise in the prison population and an increasing share of detainees held in pretrial detention, according to Council of Europe statistics and expert assessments.

A delegation from the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) visited Azerbaijan from September 22 to October 3 as part of a periodic review of the country. This was the first mission since the CPT delegation was denied entry to the country last summer.