South Azerbaijan
Background Notes
111111-- South Africa (06/05) ... 111111-- South Korea (04/05) ... Within each Background Note is a link under "OFFICIAL NAME" that goes to the respective "country page" containing additional information. For a specific country, click on the Background Note link below, or, for a list of the countries in a region of the world (with links to respective country pages) go to the Countries and Other Areas section in each of these regions: Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Near East, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. ... [Read More]
Armenia -- Azerbaijan
Denver (HCG) First Interstate Tower South, 621 17th St., ... Pittsburgh (HC) Bailey Center/Southpointe, 125 Technology ... [Read More]
The Azerbaijan School Connectivity Program (ASCP) – Youth Programs Division – Citizen Exchanges
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Signatories to the 1970 UNESCO Convention
Mongolia NORTH & SOUTH AMERICANORTHAFRICA, ... South Africa ... SOUTH ASIA Argentina ... [Read More]
Azerbaijan
e. Acceptable Conditions of WorkAccording to a new presidential decree, as of September 1, the minimum wage of $5.60 (27,500 manats) was raised to $9.20 (45,000 manats) per month and would be raised again to $12.25 (60,000 manats) on January 1, 2004. The minimum wage for calculating pensions was $17.35 (85,000 manats) per month. Several presidential decrees during the year raised the minimum wage of most government employees between 50 and 100 percent. The minimum wage was not sufficient to provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family. The recommended monthly wage level to meet basic subsistence needs was estimated to be $96 (470,400 manats) per person. Most workers earned more than the minimum wage, and the average actual salary was $73.50 (360,000 manats). Many relied on the safety net of the extended family or on remittances from relatives working in Russia. Combinations of these and other strategies were the only way for broad se ... [Read More]
FY 2005 NGO Guidelines for South Caucasus Programs
Proposals should be no more than 5-7 pages in length. Descriptions of background information should be succinct. Do not include a general description of the conflicts in the South Caucasus. Proposals should only provide information on the NGO’s activities in the South Caucasus in past years if that information is relevant to the FY2005 proposal. ... PRM’s Program Announcement for the South Caucasus in www.grants.gov is linked to these program guidelines, as well as to PRM’s General NGO guidelines. Both guidelines are also at http://www.state.gov/g/prm, under Funding. ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
Cote d’Ivoire is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. Available information indicates that the overall magnitude of trafficking in Cote d’Ivoire has diminished in the past few years. Ivoirian girls are trafficked within the country for exploitation as domestic servants, street vendors, and prostitutes, and occasionally are lured to Europe where they are forced into commercial sexual exploitation after being deceived by false marriage proposals. Children from Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Benin are trafficked to Cote d’Ivoire for agricultural and domestic labor exploitation. Nigerian and Ghanaian women and children, as well as some females from Algeria, Morocco, China, and the Philippines, are trafficked to Abidjan and other large towns for sexual exploitation. Some of these women also transit Cote d’Iv ... [Read More]
U.S. Department of State Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates
SOUTH ASIA• Afghanistan: Kabul ... • South Africa: Pretoria ... and North Africa South Asia Key Officer Listing ... [Read More]
Afghanistan
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Azerbaijan (10/04)
Location: South Caucasus; bordered by Russia to the north, the Caspian Sea to the east, Iran to the south, and Georgia and Armenia to the west. ... More than 30,000 people were killed in the fighting from 1992 to 1994. In May 1992, Armenian and Karabakhi forces seized Susha (the historical, Azerbaijani-populated capital of Nagorno-Karabakh ) and Lachin (thereby linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia). By October 1993, Armenian and Karabakhi forces had succeeded in occupying almost all of Nagorno-Karabakh, Lachin, and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan. As Armenian and Karabakhi forces advanced, hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees fled to other parts of Azerbaijan. In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities, unimpeded access for international humanitarian relief efforts, and the eventual deployment of a peacekeeping force in the region. The UN also called for immediate withdrawal of all ethnic Armenian forces from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Fighting continued, however, until May 1994 when Russia brokered a cease-fire. ... [Read More]
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