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ICFJ's Country Director in Timor-Leste, Charles Rice, was recently invited to address the first-ever Congress of the Center for Timor-Leste Investigative Journalists. With an audience of about 30 journalists, Rice covered the role that journalists, particularly investigative journalists, play in society. He also urged reporters to make their voices heard when the draft for the new Media Law comes up for discussion in Parliament in late March.
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 Children can be seen working all over Baku – doing all sorts of jobs. It often means little or no time for school and play. These children have to grow up fast. Samira Hasanli reports.
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 Garbage is a growing problem in Baku, particularly in the settlements around the city. Reporter Xumar Huseynova visited one settlement where the trash just keeps piling up.
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26-year old Carlo Castoro thinks okra could be the next big thing in Azerbaijan. The former Peace Corps volunteer, who studied agro-business in college, spent two years in a small Azeri village called Alnazarli and came to the conclusion that okra might help revive the struggling economy.
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 The International Center For Journalists broke new ground in Azerbaijan Friday night with its transmission of a pre-election forum over the Internet. The event, entitled “Democracy in Azerbaijan: Goals and Challenges,” drew an audience of more than 100 people to the Park Inn, but also attracted viewers that ranged from Azerbaijan to North America.
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After a successful pre-election forum, the first-ever in Azerbaijan, ICFJ and the Baku program recieved great feedback from local and state press. Read an article from a local English language newspaper, Caspian Business News.
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Women forced or tricked into prostitution need help if they are to be reintegrated into society, say experts.
Esmira fell prey to human traffickers after she confronted a group who had lured one of her sisters.
Her sister had been tricked into an unregistered marriage with one of the traffickers, who had abandoned her when she became pregnant.
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ICFJ is pleased to welcome you to the first-ever pre-election forum in Azerbaijan. The purpose of the program is to generate discussion about issues important to this country on the eve of its presidential elections. A panel of distinguished guests will discuss political pluralism, civil society and economic development. Throughout the evening, the studio audience can ask questions to panelists relating to these three topics.
The program is being broadcast live, worldwide, on the internet as a TV webcast – this is the first time such a event has ever been broadcast on the internet from Azerbaijan.
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Under a blazing hot sun, the police officer shouts instructions to the hundreds of people standing in the long line that stretches around the Passport Registration Management office building in central Baku. Some people say they started lining up for their international passports at 4 a.m. in order to get a good place in the line.
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.jpg) Sometimes cosmetics and other goods as well as skin care products can be bought in the underground passage at Besh Mertebe in Baku . The cosmetics seller, Ziya, has a big assortment of skin care products, some of which are certified and recommended by a fictitious Doctor Laura. The salesman said that his products are very effective and are in great demand among his customers.
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