Azerbaijan
Divorce in Azerbaijan: women’s empowerment or stigma?
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
