Growing Problems for Media Freedom in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan can be found in spot no 172 out of 197 countries ranked in the Freedom House Press Freedom Index for 2012. Azerbaijan shares this position with Russia and Zimbabwe. Compared with 2011, the...
View ArticleSpring School on the Principles for a Free Society
On May 7, 2010 the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation arranged Spring School, i.e. a youth conference on ideology based on the book “Principles for a free society” by Dr. Nigel Ashford. The participants came...
View ArticleStep backwards in Azerbaijan?
The Azerbaijan’s elections on November 7, 2010, did not mark meaningful progress in democratic development, said the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe/ Office for Democratic...
View ArticleRoad Blocks Stopped Conference Participants
Three conferences were held in cooperation with the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan (NIPA) in the Azeri capital Baku on 15-17 April. The overall topic was the post-election situation in...
View ArticleProtests in Azerbaijan
One in a series of anti-regime protests, inspired by the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, was held on Sunday 17 April, in the Azerbaijani capital Baku. The rally was carried out despite...
View ArticleAzeri Visit to Sweden
September 5-9, 2011 a delegation from the Azeri opposition party NIPA is visiting Stockholm, Sweden. The program – organized by the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation – includes meetings at various levels...
View ArticleGöran Lennmarker interviewed by the Azeri Press Agency
”It is easy to start a war, but it is difficult to end one” Göran Lennmarker, chairman of the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. Read the interview by the Azeri Press Agency (APA) in English Read the...
View ArticleAzeri visit to Brussels
Ali Orujov, Yusif Baghirzade, Kristina Lutz, Elshan Mustafayev, Fuad Mukhtarov and Arzukhan Ali-Zada On 21-24 November, the leadership of the oppositional National Independance Party of Azerbaijan...
View ArticleEducation about Democracy in Azerbaijan
Swedish MP Elisabeth Bjornsdotter Rahm in Baku On January 27-29, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in cooperation with the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan, NIPA, arranged two conferences in the...
View ArticleEurovision Song Contest – in the Shadow of Dictatorship
On May 26, the Eurovision Song Contest will be organized in Baku, Azerbaijan. The former Soviet state is today led by an authoritarian president. The legal system has serious defects and arbitrary...
View ArticleNew Report: Azerbaijan – in the Shadow of a Dictatorship
An interview report written by Elisabeth Precht, Head of Information at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. Read the report Read or download the report (pdf)
View ArticleWhat is going on in Azerbaijan?
Thomas Gür holds up the JHS-report on Azerbaijan. To his left,Fuad Muxtarli and to his right Gerald Knaus. The Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation has during the last ten years been supporting democracy in...
View ArticleNewsletter No 3/2012
In Newsletter No 3/2012 you can read a report about Azerbaijan, including a number of interviews. JHS is launching the report prior to the Eurovision Song Contest that will be held in Baku in late...
View ArticleWhat is going on in Azerbaijan?
Gunnar Hökmark, moderate European politicians declare in a newspaper that Azerbaijan is a secular society, ”which defines the way to Europe but who, because of oil money gives the elite and the...
View Article“Visit the Political Opposition When Visiting Baku!”
It is disturbing that President Aliyev seems to have changed his mind in regards to Azerbaijan’s cooperation with the EU. Earlier he talked about a wish to become members of the EU in the future. Today...
View ArticleESI-Report about Azerbaijan
In 2011 European Stability Initiative published the report Generation Facebook in Baku. Please visit the homepage of ESA for further reading about Azerbaijan and analysis about the developments in the...
View ArticleNIPA Demands Investigation into Beating of Journalist
On April18, 2012, Azerbaijani journalist Idrak Abbasov was severely beaten by guards from Azerbaijan’s state oil company when he tried to film the demolition of houses by company employees in the...
View ArticleInteresting Seminar about Azerbaijan
Hans-Gunnar Adén (left) and Gunnar Hökmark MEP Gunnar Hökmark who recently visited Azerbaijan in his role as chairman of the Policy Committee of Euronests Parliamentary Assembly and Hans-Gunnar Adén,...
View ArticleSuccessful meetings in Brussels for the Azeri opposition
May 7-10, the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation arranged a party leadership visit to Brussels for the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan (NIPA). The goal with the visit was to strengthen the party’s...
View ArticleYouth Politicians from Eastern Europe at JHS Spring School
May 24-27, youth politicians from Eastern Europe and Sweden met at Hotel Utsikten in Nynäshamn, Sweden, to discuss Principles for a Free Society. The 21 participants, representing center-right...
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