internally displaced persons

Resettlement to Jabrayil to begin in September

Resettlement to Jabrayil to begin in September

Former internally displaced persons (IDPs) will begin returning to Jabrayil next month. In total, 41,000 IDPs will return home during the first stage of the "Great Return" program.

Shusha welcoming new residents

Shusha welcoming new residents

Another group of former internally displaced persons was sent today to the Azerbaijani city of Shusha from the Garadagh district of Baku. At this …

Azerbaijani families return to Zabukh

Azerbaijani families return to Zabukh

A phased return of internally displaced persons to the village of Zabukh has begun in Azerbaijan. At the first stage, 20 families will be resettled, all of them will be provided with new apartments.

Former internally displaced persons returning to Zabukh

Former internally displaced persons returning to Zabukh

The State Committee of Azerbaijan for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons held a draw among the families who will be resettled in the village of Zabukh in Azerbaijan’s Lachin district at the first stage, the Committee of Azerbaijan …

Shusha welcomes former residents

Shusha welcomes former residents

After nearly three decades of Armenian occupation, Azerbaijan's city of Shusha – once known as the Pearl of Karabakh – is ready to welcome back its former residents as the traces of the destructive occupation are erased

Exiled Azerbaijanis: "We are ready to live in liberated territories, even in tents."

Exiled Azerbaijanis: "We are ready to live in liberated territories, even in tents."

As a young woman in 1993, Azerbaijani Ramziya Sharifova waded across a river into Iran with her family to escape Armenian forces capturing her village, then watched as they burned it to the ground. Nearly 30 years later, she's finally planning to go home. The 47-year-old librarian is one of the 750,000 Azerbaijanis who fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region in southwestern Azerbaijan and several surrounding districts in the early 1990s

Armenia abuses concept of “welcoming culture” in its own political interests

Armenia abuses concept of “welcoming culture” in its own political interests

Illegal resettlement is a gross violation of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime, Gulshan Pashayeva, the board member of the Center of Analysis of International Relations of the Republic of Azerbaijan, writes in the article Illegal resettlement in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan: Cause and effect for EurActiv