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Parliament offers to make amendment to legislation on children in Azerbaijan

20 November 2009 15:44 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev â€“ APA. Azerbaijani parliamentâ€™s special sitting on the rights of the child has ended, APA reports. Parliamentarians made a number of proposals. MP Ali Huseynov said the best indicators concerning the arrest of children in CIS were in Azerbaijan. He said 49 juveniles were serving imprisonment in Azerbaijan and added that a modern jail would be built for the imprisoned juveniles soon.

MP Gular Ahmadova said infant death should be reduced. She noted that UNICEF should implement projects in this field. Ahmadova said UNICEF gathers statistics more rather than protects the rights of children.

MP Ganira Pashayeva noted that President of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva cared for children much. She said the foundation had built 300 schools.
â€œThere are 20,000 children deprived of parental care. The Foundation has overhauled 31 children’s homes and boarding schools. Moreover, Heydar Aliyev Foundation is implementing projects for the children with seeing and hearing problems, those suffering from diabetes and thalassemia. The representatives of the international organizations participating here should not ignore that the rights of the children of Azerbaijani refugees and IDPs have been violated. Violation of the rights of hundreds of thousands of the displaced children as a result of Armeniaâ€™s aggressive policy should be prevented,â€ she said.

Azay Guliyev said the Council of State Support for Nongovernmental Organizations under President of Azerbaijan Republic financed 42 projects in connection with children in 2009.

MP Malahat Ibrahimgizi offered to make amendment to the legislation on children. She said the law on â€œRights of childrenâ€ still contained Soviet-ear criteria.
â€œPrevention of infant death is one of the issues to which Azerbaijan state pays much attention. Why doesnâ€™t our legislation regard 1kg baby as child? At present a baby is considered a child after 28 weeks. This figure should be reduced to 22 weeks. A baby weighing over 500g should be considered a citizen. These standards work in the whole world,â€ she said.