Ombudsman Office and the UN Country Team in Azerbaijan inked a Memorandum of Understanding

The Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) Ms. Sabina Aliyeva and the UN Resident Coordinator in Azerbaijan, Ms. Vladanka Andreeva bilaterally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The signing ceremony was attended by the delegations of the two entities.  

The main objective of the MoU is to promote universal values of human rights, rule of law, gender equality, prevention of discrimination, and good governance, to strengthen cooperation with civil society institutions, and to promote human rights education at all levels. It was deemed necessary to establish a joint Working Group to carry out effective cooperation on the issues concerned in the MoU.  

According to the MoU, joint projects for human rights education and awareness-raising activities, further expansion of the UN human rights mechanisms, follow-up on and implementation of recommendations of within those mechanisms, strengthening the institutional capacity-building for the Ombudsman Institution, developing national human rights strategies, and other activities to support the implementation of “The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021-2025 between the UN and Azerbaijan” will be implemented.