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Chechnya

Voice | ‘Just give me back my children’

by Aida Mirmaksumova

•6 min read

According to Chechen tradition, a divorced woman cannot return to her parents’ house with her children, since the children ‘belong to’ the man and he and his family are responsible for them. Jamilya (not her real name), shared her story of separation with OC Media. ‘My ex-husband — the father of my children — worked in a construction company, and often used to travel to other cities. On one of his business trips, he met another woman. He left me and never returned. I stayed with my two childre

Azerbaijan

Divorce in Azerbaijan: women’s empowerment or stigma?

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Increased rates of divorce have become a topic of a public debate in Azerbaijan. Many see the reason in a changing place of women in society. Shafiga, 25, got acquainted with her future husband through her relatives. A year after the wedding, they had a son, and for several years she was sure that she had an absolutely happy family. But at some point her husband openly declared that he had another woman, with whom he had a religious marriage, and he would share his time between the two