Stakeholder Summary >> Azerbaijan, Review Documentation, 4

CWMW stated that women cannot fully enjoy their rights to sexual and reproductive rights due to, among others, the following underlying factors: 1) due to the military-political events in Qarabakh in 1988, many young men died, which increased pressure on women to give birth to/have male children; 2) economic difficulties related to the transition period made a large number of men l/go abroad to search for/in search of employment, leaving women as the majority of the workforce; and 3) the social and cultural environment caused by the conflict placed psychological and emotional pressure on women. [Para 21]