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Azerbaijan
- State Women, Family & Children Committee Creates Data Bank on
Persons Who Committed Domestic Violence
The
Committee reports that a data bank on persons who committed domestic violence
is being created on the basis of the rules of preventive registration of
perpetrators of such violence, approved by the country’s government, and
conducting educational and preventive work.
"The
purpose of the data bank project is to identify the exact statistics of
domestic violence cases of criminal and non-criminal nature, collection of
information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the
As part of
the data bank the Committee plans to buy appropriate software.
"Work
on creation of a data bank may be launched earlier next year. It is difficult
to define now how soon it is created. Currently, we are gathering information
on this project," the Committee reported.
Under the
rules of preventive accounting of domestic violence perpetrators, educational
and preventive work with them will be conducted by psychologists, teachers and
other professionals. The rules do not cover prisoners and juveniles in special
educational, medical and rehabilitation facilities of open and close type.
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