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REFUGEES/IDPS
2010-12-24
A Town in the City for 30 000 IDPs
In accordance to the state strategy about IDPs, in spring of 2011 about
30 000 IDPs will be settled in the territory of Maltakva, in Poti. The
IDP families will be resettled to Poti from various regions of the
Western Georgia. It is unclear what measures the government will take
to prevent worsening of the economical situation of the IDPs by mass
resettlement.
2010-12-23
A Town in the City for 30 000 IDPs
In accordance to the state strategy about IDPs, in spring of 2011 about
30 000 IDPs will be settled in the territory of Maltakva, in Poti. The
IDP families will be resettled to Poti from various regions of the
Western Georgia. It is unclear what measures the government will take
to prevent worsening of the economical situation of the IDPs by mass
resettlement.
2010-12-21
IDPs in Kheta Requesting Improvement of Their Life Conditions
In the village Kheta of Khobi municipality, in the former building of technical college, forty families of IDPs from Abkhazia have been accommodated. For six months, they have not been provided with water and have been carrying unhealthy water from the well. Several times, children got poisoned. The IDPs are talking about the unduly conducted rehabilitation works. Their houses do not have chimneys, thus they do not have heating system.
2010-12-21
IDPs Protesting against the New Wave of Evictions
Bakurtsikhe, Lesichine, Potskhoetseri, Chkaduashi, Narazeni, Abashispiri – these are the villages where the IDPs are going to be moved to once again. The eviction and forceful displacement to the regions from 30 compact settlement places of Tbilisi was planned for December 26th, but as a result of the protest rallies and activity of civil society, the government stopped this process till January 15th.
2010-12-17
Human Rights Center Requests Stopping the Mass Eviction of IDPs from the Compact Residence Places
Human Rights Center is concerned with the feasible mass
eviction of IDPs. In 24 collective centers of Tbilisi, the IDPs have
been informed that the buildings that they are currently living in are
not the places of compact settlements and thus cannot be intended for
long-term living.
2010-12-14
New Lodgers of Tsintskaro
The village Tsintskaro of Tetritskaro municipality was
inhabited by Greeks till 2005. Nowadays, it is inhabited by
eco-migrants, the so-called old IDPs and the IDPs displaced since the
conflict of 2008 in the Kodori valley.
2010-12-06
Terrible Losses Overnight'
Cables Track US Diplomatic Efforts to Avert Russian-Georgian Conflict. The leaked embassy cables show how the US, after spending years helping to build up Georgia's military capabilities, made last-ditch diplomatic attempts to avert the August 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia.
OTHER NEWS
Interior Ministry Says it 'Foiled Terror Plot'
The video, released on behalf of the Taliban, was posted on Internet from Georgia - Irakli Gharibashvili
People Will Be Discharged from Fines for Having Illegally Constructed Buildings
11 Officers of Senaki Brigade Questioned in Akhalaia’s Case
Majoritarian Candidates Lost Interim Elections Received 5 000 Lari Back
Archive
BLOG
Historic Review of Georgian Political Advertisement
In 2005, American researchers estimated that political advertisements on TV have short (two-week) impact on voters. But the result is so rapid andDetailed...
Pre-election Advertisement Promises
Quality and Purpose of Political Advertisements
EDITORIAL
Human Rights Center to Monitor Trials on Former Senior Governmental Officials
How the detention process of former senior officials is going on; whether political motivation is detected in it and will the new initiativeDetailed...
As a result of international oppression, State Audit Office and National Bureau of Enforcement postponed the repressions
The August war- who is guilty?
POLL
What do you think, shall the archive of illegally obtained operative materials be destroyed or not?