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<\/p>\nIEPF had also joined the mine action program since 2000. IEPF continuously conducts projects on mine action, surveying and resolving the mine survivors\u2019 problems\u201d.<\/p>\n
Siyab Mammadli, Head of Program Department, IEPF, informed the participants about ongoing and implemented projects of the Fund. He stated: \u201cIEPF has already implemented the project \u201cEstablishing and Functioning of Mine Victims Association in Terter District of Azerbaijan\u201d (2006-2007) by the financial support of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM\/WRA). In March 2007 as a result of this project the Azerbaijan Mine Victims Association (AMVA) was established by the IEPF and has since been registered. From July 2007 to July 2008, IEPF had implemented the projects \u201cEstablishing of the Fuzuli Regional Branch and Directing the Activity of Terter Regional Branch of AMVA\u201d and \u201cEstablishing of the Aghstafa Regional Branch of AMVA and Directing its Activity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Thereafter, a discussion was held on the given topic after S.Mammadli\u2019s presentation. Shalala Hasanova, Head of the Information Service at the State Committee on Securities, Aziz Aliyev, Head of Information Department of ANAMA, Rauf Zeyni, President of the National NGO Forum, Fuzuli Rzaquliyev, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Patriotic War Veterans\u2019 Union, Elchin Mammad, journalist-participant of the mine issue contest expressed their points of view on the event. They highly appreciated the IEPF\u2019s activities in this field.<\/p>\n
Azer Hasret, Head of Department, IEPF, presented the book \u201cThese are their fates\u201d based on the materials collected during the implementation of the above mentioned projects. He noted that the book reflects mine survivors\u2019 lives and the tragedies they face: \u201cWe all should read this book to understand the sense of the problems. The book reflects only small episodes of 27 mine survivors lives. These are very short but very serious sad nuances of their lives. For me, each healthy man should learn from these persons how to be strong-willed and great survivors\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rey Karimoglu, Collaborator of the Fund spoke about the contest on journalist investigation and reporting on \u201cMine survivors\u2019 lives, their tragedies and problems\u201d organized by the International Eurasia Press Fund and the Azerbaijan Mine Victims Association. He stated: \u201cJournalists were deeply interested in this contest from the beginning. Till the last day of the contest \u2013 July 20, various journalists published 20 articles in different newspapers. We do regret that 4 out of these articles didn\u2019t meet the requirements of the contest and only 16 ones were accepted for reviewing. Active journalists from the leading daily and weekly newspapers participated in the contest. On July 16, Board of Jury met to define the winners of the contest for the last time. The winners were defined through cumulative points given by each jury member at the last meeting\u201d. He noted that the judges evaluated the articles based on 1-10 points schedule for relevance, comprehensiveness and professionalism<\/p>\n
The IEPF and AMVA awarded the journalists with unanticipated gifts: \u201cAs announced previously, the winners of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places would be awarded. But later taking into account the active participation of journalists in the contest the IEPF and AMVA authority decided to make changes in the procedure. It was decided, not to change the award amount, but also to select two and three journalists respectively for the 2nd and 3rd places\u201d.<\/p>\n
The winners were presented with various awards. Here is the list and the awards of winners of the mine issue contest on \u201cMine survivors: needs, problems and objectives\u201d organized by the IEPF jointly with the AMVA below:
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\nOne 1st place: Elshad Pashasoy, \u201cYeni Musavat\u201d newspaper \u2013 Diploma and US250$
\nTwo 2nd places: Lale Musaqizi, \u201cMerkez\u201d newspaper and Rashad Suleymanov, \u201cEkspress\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and US150$ to each journalist
\nThree 3rd places: Aynur Elgunesh, \u201cBizim Yol\u201d newspaper, Seymur Verdizade of \u201cReytinq\u201d newspaper and Melahet Rza of \u201cSharq\u201d newspaper \u2013 diplomas and US100$ to each journalist
\nBahar Rustemli, \u201cReytinq\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nKabuter Haqverdi, \u201cYeni Azerbaycan\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nElchin Mammadli, \u201cTezadlar\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nBabek Jahandar, \u201cParitet\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nNizami Huseyn, \u201c24 saat\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nKhalid Vahidoglu, \u201cUch noqte\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nAli Rzaqulu, \u201cResmi Baki\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nIsa Musa, \u201cVeten sesi\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nMammadrza Qulu, \u201cVeten ugrunda\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nEyyub Mammad, \u201c525-ci qezet\u201d newspaper \u2013 diploma and a watch
\nAt the end of the meeting Aflatun Amashov, Chairman of the Azerbaijan Press Council made a speech. He stressed the importance of the activities carried out by the IEPF and wished the Fund successes in its future perspectives. Kabuter Haqverdi, journalist of \u201cYeni Azerbaycan\u201d newspaper made a commendable step as a mother whose act can be a lesson to authoritative and rich men. She said that she was going to give half of her son\u2019s first salary as a present to Bakhtiyar Aliyev \u2013 a juvenile boy-mine survivor.<\/p>\n
Nate Reynolds and Behruz Mammadov, representatives of US Embassy to Azerbaijan, Nicat Karimov, representative of UNHCR, Elchin Qadim, representative of the State Committee on Refugees\/IDPs Issues, Mugalib Mahmud, representative of Ombudsman Office, heads and representatives of NGOs and journalist organizations were among the participants of the event.<\/p>\n
Note: Articles submitted to the contest are posted (in Azerbaijani) on the IEPF web site: link \u201cM\u00fcsabiq\u0259\u201d (Contest).![](\"http:\/\/www.iepf-ngo.org\/photos\/bamf_tedbir2.jpg\")
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Correspondent of \u201cYeni Azerbaycan\u201d newspaper gave half of her son\u2019s first salary as a present to a juvenile boy-mine survivor
\nIEPF, Baku, 05 Aug 2008 \u2013 Today International Eurasia Press Fund (IEPF) jointly with Azerbaijan Mine Victims Association (AMVA) held a conference on \u201cMine survivors: needs, problems and objectives\u201d at the conference hall of the Institute of Human Rights, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Umud Rahimoglu, Chairman of the IEPF opening the meeting informed participants that they will hear the report on the projects related to mine survivors that were implemented with the financial support of U.S. Department of State; presentation of a book devoted to mine survivors and announcing of winners of the mine issue contest. He briefly informed the participants on the core necessity of the IEPF\u2019s establishment and talked about how the IEPF had joined the mine action program since 2000: \u201cLast years considerable activities were carried out in both mine clearance and mine needs assessment directions under the umbrella of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iepf-ngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}