Baku Climate Action Week
On September 30, the First Baku Climate Action Week (BCAW 2024) opened in Baku, which will last until October 4.
The event is attended by representatives of political, financial, scientific and cultural circles, as well as representatives of civil society and the media.
Participants will discuss topics such as "energy transition," "urbanized environment," "high-quality water," "food and agriculture," etc.
Recall that the COP29 conference will be held in Baku in November this year.
Politics
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Today in Strasbourg, a protest in defence of Iqbal Abilov, a researcher of Talysh culture arrested in Azerbaijan, took place in front of the Palais de l'Europe.
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Azerbaijani political emigrant Vidadi Iskenderli, who lives in France, was attacked by unknown persons on 29 September.
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Senior U.S. and EU officials on human rights last week met in New York to discuss Georgia, TURAN's U.S. correspondent reports.
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The award ceremony for the 2024 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize – which honours outstanding human rights defenders worldwide – will be a highlight of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), to be held in Strasbourg from 30 September to 4 October 2024. An overall winner will be selected from among three shortlisted candidates. The winner of the 2022 Prize Vladimir Kara-Murza, recently released from detention in Russia, will also make a statement during the ceremony.
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