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Parvana Rahimova has over 3 years of experience as a journalist and photographer. She is passionate about documentary filmmaking, and visual arts. She is also highly interested in social and gender i
A child's shoe left in the mud in a village that suffered numerous missile strikes during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Photo; Parvana Rahimova.
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Invisible scars: Children, war, and mental health in Azerbaijan

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The legacy of two wars, and neverending skirmishes have taken a heavy toll on the children living in Azerbaijani villages near the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact. Seven-year-old Aysu was one of the five people killed in Azerbaijan’s village of Garayusifli during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. Her father, Rovshan Iskenderov, said that before the missile hit he had last seen her playing in the yard.  ‘The shrapnel shattered my daughter’s internal organs. I wish I hadn’t seen her like that’