Country Azerbaijan
Year 2020 - 2023
Type of Measure Policies > National action plan specific to violence against women
Form of Violence Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Brief Description


The First National Action Plan for Combating Domestic Violence 2020-2023 was adopted in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The plan was developed in accordance with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Convention. 

Source of Information

The Government of Azerbaijan's submission for the 2022 Secretary General’s Report on the implementation of the General Assembly Resolutions on Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls

Information submitted by the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan with regard to the report of the Special Raporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences