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In Azerbaijan every year 40-60 children of different ages commit suicide and even more children make suicide attempts. As Azerbaijani News Agency APA reports, Nabil Seidov, the head of the Alliance for Children’s Rights NGO said about this during the roundtable discussion devoted to the rights of children.

He noted that the youngest child who committed suicide last year was 9 years old. According to Seidov there is no reliable statistics about the attempts of suicides in Azerbaijan. He stressed that if more accurate statistics is produced it will turn out that the situation is much worse.

“Every year thousands of children and teenagers suffer from depression, emotional experiences and other kinds of mental disorder. They as well become witnesses of criminal acts and violence (domestic violence included). During the last two years almost 300 children have been confronted with different kinds of violence. Only in Baku during these two years almost 40 children became the victims of sexual abuse and exploitation,” Seidov said.

Note that the Azerbaijani authorities do not disclose the official statistics on suicides in the country. However, according to the Azerbaijani media at least 40 people have committed suicide in Azerbaijan since January 2014. There are also 5 cases of suicides of children under 18.