December 23, 2010 - 9:20am, by Molly Corso Georigia Seventeen-year-old Ketevan, an Internally Displaced Person from the breakaway region of Abkhazia, has little reason to celebrate the holidays this...
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Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Walter Kälin: Addendum - Follow-up mission to Georgia (A/HRC/16/43/Add.3)
Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary ...
Georgia: Group of IDPs Protests Against Planned Eviction
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 21 Dec.'10 / 19:55 Several hundreds of internally displaced persons held a rally outside the Parliament on December 21 to protest against their imminent eviction from over...
Armenia + 10 more
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani (A/HRC/16/43)
Human Rights Council Sixteenth session Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary ...
Georgia + 1 more
Georgia project leads the way for socio-economic integration of refugees
TBILISI, Georgia, December 20 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has joined forces with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to launch a project that should ease the socio-economic integration of Chechen...
Armenia + 3 more
Violence-free conflicts: conflicts with no solution?
Vicenç Fisas (Director of the School for a Culture of Peace, UAB) It is a demonstrable fact that many conflicts in which peace processes are present experience in a standstill their negotiations. The...
Afghanistan + 3 more
Women 'Watching and Waiting', Special Representative Says as Security Council Concludes Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict
SC/10126 Security Council 6453rd Meeting (Resumed) (AM) "Women now are watching and waiting," Margot Wallström, the Secretary-General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, told the...
Georgia: Securing a Stable Future
Two and a half years after the war with Russia, Georgia's political life is increasingly turning towards preparations for the 2012-2013 elections and debates around divisions of power after a recent...
European Union, World Bank and Government of Georgia Finance Improvements in Housing and Infrastucture for Conflict Affected People
10 December, 2010, TBILISI. The European Union, the World Bank and the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia have announced today about a joint project totaling around € 4,9...
Georgians and Abkhazis meet to clarify fate of persons missing from 1992-93 armed conflict
News Release 10/226 Geneva (ICRC) - Abkhaz and Georgian participants in a newly created coordination mechanism met on 9 December under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross...
Georgian Food Prices Spark Malnutrition Fears
Poorest on diet so meagre that experts warn of under-nourishment. By Manana Vardiashvili - Caucasus CRS Issue 569, 4 Dec 10 Food prices in Georgia have risen so fast this year that poorer sections of...
Georgia: Immunization campaign aims to keep Abkhazia region polio-free
UNICEF and European Union support vaccinations By Maya Kurtsikidze ABKHAZIA, Georgia, 3 December 2010- UNICEF, the Abkhaz authorities and the European Union have left no stone unturned in their...
As Temperatures Plunge, WFP Georgia Warms up the Most Vulnerable With Food Rations
TBILISI - As the winter weather in the Republic of Georgia begins to bite, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Wednesday that it will distribute vital food supplies to feed 6,700...
Georgia + 2 more
Central Asia: OSCE Summit Concludes Final Session Without Deal On Action Plan
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 02.12.2010 20:03 By RFE/RL The OSCE's first summit in more than a decade has concluded without agreement on an action plan meant to strengthen the security group's role in the...
Russia + 3 more
Radical Islam in the North Caucasus
By Sergey Markedonov Nov 29, 2010 As Kyrgyzstan plunges into crisis and the threat of a second Afghanistan in Central Asia looms large, the situation in the "Big Caucasus" seems less pressing and...
Armenia + 5 more
OSCE summit in Kazakhstan: ICRC shares its humanitarian concerns
29-11-2010 Interview The ICRC has been invited to a summit organized in Astana, Kazakhstan on 1-2 December 2010, by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). On the eve of the...
World + 4 more
Meeting the Challenge: Protecting Civilians through the Convention on Cluster Munitions
Cluster Munitions: No Middle Ground on Absolute Ban Nations Should Reject Weak Alternative to Joining Treaty (Geneva) - The Convention on Cluster Munitions is the only viable solution to ending the...
Human Rights, Democracy and Displacement in Georgia
Event Summary Since the conflicts over Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the early 1990s, violence has erupted several times in Georgia, most notably in August 2008. Large-scale human rights violations...
Georgia + 1 more
Russia and Georgia: The Circassian Question
This article originally appeared on openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons licence. A series of recent international conferences have pushed the Circassian question on to the international...
Armenia + 3 more
The Lightness of History in the Caucasus
This article originally appeared on openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons licence. The Caucasus is often depicted as a region of peoples locked in enduring and invariant nationalist enmity. The...