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The Council of Europe is founded on human rights principles that Azerbaijan is flouting every day, Human Rights Watch representative said.

Rachel Denber, deputy director of Europe and Central Asia program, pointed out unprecedented decision by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to downgrade Azerbaijan’s status in the group from compliant to a candidate country because of its failure to follow those rules.

EITI promotes good governance of resource-rich countries by fostering open public debate about how oil, gas, and mining revenues are used.

“With the EITI’s unprecedented decision, I can’t help thinking about Azerbaijan and another organization, the Council of Europe,” Denber writes in her article. “Most of the country’s human rights leaders who had regularly spoken out at the Council of Europe about the crackdown in Azerbaijan are now behind bars, in exile, or in hiding.”

 

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