• ESI report: Caviar Diplomacy. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe (24 May 2012)
• ESI report: Generation Facebook in Baku. Adnan, Emin and the Future of Dissent in Azerbaijan (15 March 2011)

Human Rights Watch

• HRW World Report 2012, "Azerbaijan: Country Summary" (Jan. 2012)
• "They Took Everything from Me": Forced Evictions, Unlawful Expropriations, and House Demolitions in Azerbaijan's Capital, 29 February 2012
• HRW World Report 2011, "Azerbaijan: Country Summary" (Jan. 2011)
• Beaten, Blacklisted, and Behind Bars: The Vanishing Space for Freedom of Expression in Azerbaijan, 26 October 2010

Amnesty International

• "Azerbaijan: No more running scared", 20 February 2012
• The Spring That Never Blossomed, published on 16 November 2011

Article 19

• Article 19, Running Scared: Azerbaijan's Silenced Voices, 26 March 2012
• Free Expression Under Attack: Azerbaijan's Deteriorating Media Environment, Report of the International Freedom of Expression Mission to Azerbaijan, 7-9 September 2010
• Article 19, Time to Reset the Code Locks: Realising the Right to Know in Azerbaijan after the Adoption of the 2005 Law on the Right to Obtain Information,October 2009

Freedom House

• Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2011: Azerbaijan(country chapter)

The European Parliament

• The European Parliament's resolution on the EU-Azerbaijan Association Agreement, adopted 18 April 2012

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

• PACE, Report on "The follow-up to the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan", 26 June 2012. Rapporteur: Christoph Strässer, Germany, Socialist Group
• PACE, Report on "The definition of political prisoners", 26 June 2012. Rapporteur: Christoph Strässer, Germany, Socialist Group
• PACE, "Honouring of obligations and commitments by Azerbaijan. Information note by the co-rapporteurs on their fact-finding visit to Baku (31 January – 2 February 2012)", 25 April 2012. Rapporteurs: Pedro Agramunt Font de Mora and Joseph Debono Grech.

The European Commission

• The European Commission, Implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in Azerbaijan. Progress in 2011 and Recommendations for Action. Brussels, 15 May 2012.

Foreign Policy Centre

• The Foreign Policy Centre, Spotlight on Azerbaijan, ed. by Adam Hug. London, May 2012.

IREX

• IREX, Media Sustainability Index 2012: Azerbaijan (country chapter)
• IREX, Media Sustainability Index 2011: Azerbaijan (country chapter)

OSCE/ODIHR election observation reports on Azerbaijan

• Final Report, Parliamentary Elections, 7 November 2010 (Warsaw, 25 January 2011)
• Final Report, Presidential Election, 15 October 2008 (Warsaw, 15 December 2008)
• Partial Repeat Parliamentary Elections, 13 May 2006 (Annex to the Final Report on the 6 November 2005 Parliamentary Election), (Warsaw, 23 June 2006)
• Final Report, Parliamentary Elections, 6 November 2005 (Warsaw, 1 February 2006)
• Final Report, Presidential Election, 15 October 2003 (Warsaw, 12 November 2003)
• Final Report, Parliamentary Elections, 5 November 2000 and 7 January 2001 (Warsaw, 15 January 2001).
• Final Report, Presidential Election, 11 October 1998

Eurovision-related coverage in international media:

• Stefan Niggemeier, "dapd-Feature über Baku: »Naiv, blind oder bezahlt«" (24 April 2012)
• Amanda Erickson, "Middle-Class Families Face Evictions in Azerbaijan", New York Times, 10 August 2011
• Damien McGuinness, 'Evicted in Baku to make way for Eurovision', BBC News, 22 December 2011
• ARD – Das Erste, "Rückschau: Aserbaidschan - wenige Monate vor dem Eurovision Song Contest", 5 February 2012 (based on the TV program on the same topic broadcast on 5 February 2012)
• Stefan Niggemeier, "Activists Hope Contest Will Improve Human Rights", Spiegel Online, 8 February 2012
• Hubertus Volmer, "Pomp und PR in Baku", n-tv.de, 17 February 2012
• NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), "ESC - Die "unpolitische" Show der Eurovision", 15 February 2012
• "Can Engelbert Humperdinck free Azerbaijan?" The Economist, 2 March 2012
• "Die Regierung ist wirklich wütend", n-tv.de, 9 March 2012
• Tracy McVeigh, "Human rights abuses spark demands to boycott Eurovision in Azerbaijan", The Guardian, 11 March 2012
• Barbara Oertel, "Boykott ist kein Thema", die taz, 12 March 2012
• Jerome Taylor and Richard Hall, "Eurovision: light entertainment in a dark place", The Independent, 19 March 2012
• Shaun Walker, "Azerbaijan warms up for Eurovision by torturing musicians", Belfast Telegraph, 22 March 2012
• Annette Langer, "Betonklotz ins Schlafzimmer geschleudert", 3 April 2012
• Annette Langer, "Azerbaijan Flouts Free Press on Eve of Eurovision", Spiegel Online, 4 April 2012
• Ellen Barry, "Reporter in Azerbaijan Beaten after Filming Dispute", The New York Times, 18 April 2012.
• Judy Dempsey, "Where a Glitzy Pop Contest Takes Priority Over Rights", The New York Times, 27 April 2012.
• Walter Mayr, "German Government Report Slams ‘State Repression'", Spiegel, 2 May 2012.
• Aleksandra Jolkina und Anieke Walter, „Das Imperium schlägt zurück", Stern.de, 10 May 2012.
• Shaun Walker, "Singing in Azerbaijan – but not for democracy", The Independent, 12 May 2012.
• Charlotte Eagar, "Greetings from Azerbaijan: The voices of protest you won't hear at this month's Eurovision Song Contest", Daily Mail Online, 12 May 2012.
• Roman Goncharenko, "Eurovision Spotlights Human Rights in Azerbaijan", Deutsche Welle, 17 May 2012. 
• Miriam Elder, "'Tortured' singer flees Azerbaijan days before Eurovision", The Guardian, 18 May 2012. 
• Roman Goncharenko, "Azerbaijan: Autocracy in an Oil Paradise", Deutsche Welle, 19 May 2012.
• The Economist, "Baku in her finest", 19 May 2012.
• BBC Panorama, "Eurovision's Dirty Secret" (video), 22 May 2012.
• Associated Press, "Azerbaijan basks in Eurovision glow, but fears spotlight on corruption, repression", Washington Post, 23 May 2012.

On lobbying:

• Robert Booth, "Prince Andrew row intensifies as he lobbies for Azerbaijan", The Guardian, 9 March 2011
• Rajeev Syal and Solomon Hughes, "Tory MP on intelligence committee is paid by Azerbaijan lobby group", The Guardian, 5 October 2011
• Kevin Bogardus, "Azerbaijan plants flag in DC lobbying scene", The Hill, 6 December 2011
• Ralf Neukirch, "Azerbaijan Seeks to Burnish Image Ahead of Eurovision", Spiegel, 4 January 2012
• Tanja Kewes, "Oh, wie schön ist Aserbaidschan", Handelsblatt, 29 January 2012. (about Azerbaijan's lobbying at the Davos Forum)