On 3 December 2021, the Council of Europe in co-operation with the State Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs organised a workshop on gender stereotypes and violence against women in Gokhmukh village school in Azerbaijan.

Participants were informed about the impact of harmful gender stereotypes, as well as on how the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention, can contribute to eliminating violence against women and girls.

About 40 school children and teachers participated in the workshop and expressed their interest on the publications on the Istanbul Convention in Azerbaijani distributed among them during the workshop.

This activity took place under the project ‘Raising awareness of the Istanbul Convention and other gender equality standards in Azerbaijan’ implemented within the second phase of the European Union and Council of Europe joint programme on Partnership for Good Governance (PGGII) in the Eastern Partnership countries. Among other objectives, the joint project seeks to support the Azerbaijani authorities to sign the Istanbul Convention.