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News Azerbaijan: ICRC helps restore water in conflict-affected village 16-12-2008 News release 24-11-2008 News release Section ICRC operations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia A country-by-country overview of the ICRC’s work to provide neutral and independent assistance and protection for victims of conflict.
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Azerbaijan and Armenia. Thousands of people are still missing in connection with the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
The ICRC maintains its broad coverage of humanitarian issues throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia, through its network of six country and regional delegations. Their operational priorities are to protect and assist people affected by conflict and armed violence, to respond to emergencies and to promote respect for international humanitarian law (IHL). The country and region names used herein are intended to facilitate reference and have no political significance.  Key document1-4-2008 A journalist in Kyrgyzstan's prisons: re-learning how to "hurry up and wait" Imogen Foulkes is the BBC correspondent in Geneva. She recently travelled to Kyrgyzstan to report on the ICRC's support for efforts to fight multi-drug-resistant TB in prisons. Before flying home she contributed this report to icrc.org. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Kyrgyzstan) Feature Includes Photo Annual Report27-5-2008 ICRC Annual Report 2007: Europe and the Americas: Introduction(Info resources\Annual Report\2007) Annual Report Includes PDF, Map Annual Report Includes PDF, Map Feature5-1-2009 Georgia: victims of conflict hope for a brighter year aheadAs Orthodox Christmas approaches in Central and Eastern Europe, many displaced and isolated families affected by the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia five months ago remain in need of help. For elderly people, like 60-year-old Nunu Doliashvili, the holiday season would have been very bleak indeed, were it not for some much-needed assistance from ICRC. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 15-10-2008 Georgia: you can't put hope in a boxKakha Khasaia's career with the Red Cross spans 16 years during which he has done practically every job, from guard to head of office. Jessica Barry caught up with him at his base in Zugdidi. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 7-10-2008 Georgia: 200,000 meals cooked in under three weeks.Thousands of displaced people in Gori cannot meet their basic needs. Even preparing meals has become a challenge to them. The Italian Red Cross offers them a lifeline. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 1-10-2008 Georgia: the elderly hard-hit by conflictWhen conflict in Georgia drove thousands of people from their homes, those too old and weak to flee stayed behind, often isolated. Zoé Brabant, a member of the ICRC mobile health team that went into Gori to assist them, shares her experience. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature 30-9-2008 Azerbaijan: safe playgrounds for childrenAlthough the hostilities in the Nagorny Karabakh region of Azerbaijan were suspended over a decade ago, their deadly legacy lives on in the form of landmines. The ICRC endeavours to prevent the havoc they cause. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan) Feature Includes Photo 26-9-2008 Georgia: portraits from TbilisiThe elderly are amongst the greatest casualties of the recent war in Georgia and South Ossetia, particularly because of the manner in which it has changed their lives irrevocably. The ICRC’s Jessica Barry has been talking to some of them. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 24-9-2008 Georgia: portrait from ZugdidiMany people who fled conflict in Abkhazia in 1992-3 remain displaced in Western Georgia and are now being joined by families made homeless by the recent fighting. A visiting ICRC team, including Jessica Barry, has been checking on their wellbeing. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 10-9-2008 Georgia: ICRC mobile clinic helps villagers with chronic diseases For people cut off from health services in remote villages affected by the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia, the mobile clinic run by the Norwegian Red Cross and ICRC is a lifeline in more ways than one. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature 25-8-2008 Georgia: out in the villages life continues, but nothing is the sameMost able-bodied people having fled to safety, the elderly and infirm in isolated villages are left to fend for themselves. The ICRC is bringing them relief and helping those who have lost contact with family members restore it. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 21-8-2008 Georgia: for the ones left behind - so near and yet so farFor the elderly, the sick and the frail who were unable to leave home when other family members fled the fighting in and around South Ossetia, each passing day of separation increases their vulnerability. Jessica Barry has been talking to some of the displaced in Tbilisi about the loved ones they left behind. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Feature Includes Photo 20-3-2008 Kyrgyzstan: fighting drug-resistant TB in the prisonsPrisons in Kyrgyzstan have long been a breeding ground for tuberculosis, including drug-resistant strains that are extremely difficult to treat. The ICRC is helping the authorities to tackle this deadly infectious illness in prisons. Jan Powell reports from the Kyrgyzstan capital, Bishkek. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Kyrgyzstan) Feature Includes Photo 12-4-2007 Azerbaijan: TB mortality rate in prisons is decreasing With the support of the ICRC, the TB mortality rate in Azerbaijani prisons has decreased 10-12 fold since 2000. Just a few years ago, a 38 year-old detainee could never have imagined that he would not only survive TB, but be fully cured. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Azerbaijan) Feature Includes Photo ICRC film15-5-2008 Chechnya: rising from its ashesIn Grozny, the streets of the market are full. But despite the rebuilding, it’s hard to find a decent flat or a proper job. Some people have started their own businesses thanks to the ICRC, such as Taiza who is making mattresses. But as Grozny rises from its ashes, other families still struggle to come to terms with the past, desperate to know what has happened to their missing relatives. (Info resources\ICRC publications and films\Films\From the field) ICRC film Includes Video Interview28-8-2008 Georgia: getting medical care to isolated people in and around GoriThe ICRC is actively working throughout Georgia to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people displaced or isolated by the armed conflict. Most recently, a mobile health clinic was set up and sent out to remote villages around the Georgian town of Gori and treated over 80 primarily elderly patients. Interview with an ICRC surgeon, Marco Baldan, who has just returned from Georgia. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Interview Includes Photo 15-8-2008 Georgia/Russian Federation: civilians in need in conflict affected areasThe humanitarian situation of thousands of civilians affected by the conflict in Georgia remains extremely serious. As far as the security situation allows, the ICRC is responding to the crisis by providing medical supplies and emergency assistance items, as well as providing water and improving living conditions in shelters for the displaced. The head of the ICRC's Eastern Europe department, Pascale Meige Wagner, explains. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Interview Includes Photo 14-8-2008 Georgia/Russian Federation: assistance through rapid deployment makes the differenceAs Georgia continues to reel from the violence of the past week, the ICRC's emergency response is in full swing. So far, almost 100 tonnes of relief supplies have been flown to the affected region. The organization has also sent over 40 additional staff to Georgia and the Russian Federation to support efforts in helping people who were forced to flee their homes. The ICRC's rapid deployment adviser, Samuel Bon, describes the role of the Rapid Deployment Unit, and how it is helping to bring assistance to thousands of people in Georgia and North Ossetia. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Interview Includes Photo 12-8-2008 Georgia/Russian Federation: ICRC delivers assistance to civilians in conflict affected areasThe ICRC is flying 15 tonnes of medicine and medical supplies to Georgia on Tuesday to help treat those injured in the armed conflict involving Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian troops. Large numbers of civilians have been hurt in the conflict and thousands have been forced to flee their homes. Sangeeta Koenig, the ICRC's deputy head of operations for Eastern Europe, talks about the organization's response to the crisis. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Interview Includes Photo 9-7-2008 Russia: training in humanitarian law, and applying itWilliam Bowie learnt about the ICRC growing up in South Africa and seeing his mother send his father – a prisoner-of-war in Germany during World War II – parcels, through the ICRC. He heads an ICRC department for cooperation with the armed and security forces. (ICRC Activities\Promoting IHL\Armed forces and police) Interview Includes Photo Operational update6-11-2008 Georgia / Russian Federation: a difficult winter ahead Three months since war broke out between Russia and Georgia, thousands of people face a difficult winter. The ICRC has been helping the most vulnerable including the displaced, dispersed families and the elderly. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Operational update Includes Photo 24-7-2008 The Russian Federation: ICRC activities from April to June 2008The ICRC carries out wide-ranging activities in the Russian Federation, focusing on restoring family links, income-generating projects for indigent communities in the northern Caucasus, providing sanitation aid and mine-risk education, promoting international humanitarian law and supporting Russian Red Cross programmes. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Russia) Operational update Photo Collection26-8-2008 Georgia/Russian Federation conflict: a selection of photos - 2 The following selection of photographs can be downloaded at high resolution. (Info resources\Photos\Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Photo Collection Includes Photo 19-8-2008 Georgia/Russian Federation conflict: a selection of photos - 1 The following selection of photographs can be downloaded at high resolution. (Info resources\Photos\Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Photo Collection Includes Photo 27-12-2006 Nagorny Karabakh: the lasting consequences of an unresolved conflict Twelve years after the cease-fire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ICRC protection and assistance activities continue. The fate of thousands of missing persons remains unknown. Mines and unexploded ordnance continue to kill and maim. Many displaced persons have still not been able to go home. (Info resources\Photos\Eastern Europe and Central Asia) Photo Collection Includes Photo Press article2-1-2008 Return to Vedeno While the situation is gradually returning to normal in hechnya, an ICRC worker gives an account of his return to the Vedeno area, a place he enjoyed in his youth. Article published in the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, No 3, 2007 (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Russia) Press article Includes Photo 30-4-2007 Georgia : A tale of three womenSince Georgia gained independence in 1991, thousands of families have been uprooted and torn apart by the tensions caused by the secessionist aspirations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The stories of three women poignantly attest to the suffering these people have endured - Article published in the Red Cross Red Crescent Magazine, No 1, 2007 (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia) Press article Report4-4-2007 The Russian Federation: ICRC plan of action 2007In this document the ICRC describes its projected activities for 2007, including its plans to meet the humanitarian needs of those affected by the violence in Chechnya. (The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Russia) Report Includes PDF Video Collection21-8-2008 Georgia: ICRC gets help to people caught up in conflictIn the first days of the emergency, hundreds of tonnes of food, blankets and sanitary supplies were flown into the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. During his 3 day visit to Georgia and the Russian Federation, ICRC President Jacob Kellenberger saw the difficult conditions for himself, and met some of the thousands of people displaced by fighting and in urgent need of assistance. (Info resources\Video) Video Collection Includes Video  |
