The New York-based Human Rights Watch Helsinki (HRW) has been documenting violations of human rights and humanitarian law by Russian and other forces in the Chechnya conflict. A fact-finding mission...
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Crosslines - Reverberations in Central Asia
The material that follows has been provided by CROSSLINES Reverberations in Central Asia In the immediate aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union, some analysts predicted a new "Great Game" in...
Crosslines: Chechnya - war and human rights
The material that follows has been provided by CROSSLINES The Red Army's Folly, Yeltsin's Afghanistan or Russia's Bosnia? The glib phrases disguise the fact that Chechnya's crisis has its own...
Crosslines: Lack of donor response
The material that follows has been provided by CROSSLINES International aid organizations meeting at a joint donor briefing in Geneva on 22 February noted that inter-agency coordination for...
Crosslines: Russians keep UN agencies out ot Chechnya
The material that follows has been provided by CROSSLINES Russians keep United Nations agencies out of Chechnya By late-February Russia was still allowing only three international organizations - the...
Crosslines: Chechnya - How best to express concern
The material that follows has been provided by CROSSLINES Chechnya: how best to express concern Even if a prolonged military ceasefire is achieved in Grozny and other parts of Chechnya, it will not...
The Hard Lessons of Rwanda
The everyday slaughter that swept across Rwanda has dealt the international community some harsh lessons: in the midst of several triumphs were cruel failures that delivered a shock to the system on...
UNHCR: Bureaucracy, Nurse, and Scapegoat
Despite the experiences of Somalia, Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the United Nations seems reluctant to set up a High Commissioner for War Victims, leaving its refugees body to insist on helping only those...
Doctors cannot stop genocide.
The following summary is based on an interview with Alain Destexhe, Secretary General of Medecins-sans-Frontieres International in Brussels. The most crucial problem when dealing with situations such...