Human Rights Day in Azerbaijan
Human Rights Day in Azerbaijan is held on June 18. This event in the second decade of the month June is annual. Help us
June 18 is marked in Azerbaijan as Human Rights Day, according to a decree on the annual celebration of the date signed on June 18, 2007 by President Ilham Aliyev.
The measure was preceded by the approval of the state program on the protection of human rights on June 18, 1998 by Azerbaijani National Leader, former President Heydar Aliyev. Since then the support of human rights became one of the main priorities of state policy and June 18 has been marked as Human Rights Day in the country.