Topic: Encouraging Political Participation by Women
Country: Azerbaijan
Delegate Name: Cristina Gardner
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Azerbaijan position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
Azerbaijan has a strategic alliance with Israel. Israel's pre state experience of discrimination and persecution had produced in the founders of the state a heightened sensitivity to the issue of the group discrimination and this included an appreciation of the need for equal treatment of women. In the public sphere, observance of religious courts of exclusive jurisdiction over matters of personal status (such as the matter of marriage and divorce) excludes women from taking public office on such matters—there are no women acting as rabbinical judges, kadis or priests with judicial authority in the various religious courts. We seconds these views. Sharia Law, or Islamic Law is the religious law forming part of the the Islamic tradition. Seeing as in 96.9% of our population is Muslim, we are against the participation of political participation of women in our country. In our country, 12 percent of women hold decision-making positions in government. We feel as though women lack the training and experience needed for them to qualify for political duties. We refuse to include women in our cabinet. Women are such a small force, and are not capable of the tasks we put upon the men in our country. There are no legal registrations on the participation of women in politics in our country. Because of this, we have no obligation to include women in politics in any way shape or form. By saying this, I am not saying we have no women involved in politics, but the vast majority is dominated by men: the stronger, more capable of the two genders.
