A/HRC/43/44/Add.1 meeting that the Special Rapporteur held with a group of farmers was a clear reflection of this, as it was only attended by men and with no female representation. 102. Female representation in public and political institutions is very low, which appears to contribute to this ongoing marginalization. Only 16.8 per cent of seats in the parliament are occupied by women.47 With some notable exceptions, the vast majority of the meetings the Special Rapporteur held with government officials were conducted by men. 103. Globally, domestic violence is one of the obstacles to women’s access to food in family situations. It is a continuous problem in Azerbaijan, as in many other countries, and one of the legal remedies is to ratify the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. Moreover, training programmes for judges and the security forces, educational and legal policies, and the establishment of shelters for women in need throughout the country are important steps that should be taken. B. Children 104. On the outskirts of Baku, in Bilgah, the Special Rapporteur visited public orphanage No. 11, which is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. There are 210 children at the orphanage, of whom 90 per cent have disabilities.48 The Special Rapporteur was positively surprised at the infrastructure, organization and services (psychologists, speech therapists, physiotherapists, music and arts therapies, etc.) provided by this State institution. She commended the Government for its efforts to provide opportunities for children with disabilities to learn and interact with their peers without disabilities. Integrating students can be beneficial for both groups of students, as well as for their parents and teachers. 105. The majority of children in orphanage No. 11 had been placed in out-of-home care because of socioeconomic hardship, divorce or inadequate or lack of family support services, and/or at the specific request of the parents. The institution also provides a daycare centre from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for children whose parents cannot take care of them during the day. 106. During her visit to the regions, the Special Rapporteur was alerted to the fact that there are significant numbers of children involved in informal work in the harvesting of tea, tobacco and cotton, including in hazardous situations. Nobody was able to provide precise data on the magnitude and relevance of child labour. 107. The Special Rapporteur was concerned at the lack of an effective system for collecting disaggregated data on infant and child mortality, child malnutrition, children with disabilities, and child labour, sexual abuse and exploitation. That constitutes a severe obstacle to ensuring the development of targeted policies and social protection programmes aimed at supporting children. C. Internally displaced persons 108. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh is the subject of an unresolved dispute with Armenia. As a result of the conflict in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh region, it is reported that over 30,000 people on both sides were killed. 49 Following the conflict, Armenia gained control over seven Azerbaijani districts adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh and approximately 1 million Azerbaijanis were forced to flee their homes.50 Living conditions 47 48 49 50 Government of Azerbaijan, voluntary national review, 2017, p. 12. Information provided by the Head of orphanage No. 11 See Ishaan Tharoor, “The crisis over Nagorno-Karabakh, explained”, The Washington Post (5 April 2016). See UNHCR, “Azerbaijan: analysis of gaps in the protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs)” (October 2009). 17