The ICRC in Georgia

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The ICRC in Georgia

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For many families, memories and faded photos are all they have of their loved ones

Protection activities remain the priority for the ICRC in Georgia, where it has worked since 1992. Direct assistance programmes for displaced people and the extremely poor have been phased out, but the ICRC keeps an emergency-response capacity and seeks to encourage the authorities to find long-term solutions for vulnerable population groups.

The ICRC makes regular visits to prisons throughout the country to monitor the treatment and conditions of detainees. It supports efforts by the authorities to curb the spread of tuberculosis in
prisons.

It also continues to help the Georgian and Abkhaz authorities shed light on the fate of some 2,000 people missing since the armed conflict.

Civilians are still at risk in some areas from unexploded munitions, which kill and maim. The ICRC provides support to orthopaedic rehabilitation centres in Tbilisi and Gagra.

The ICRC works to help the authorities incorporate international humanitarian law into local legislation and to have it put on the training agenda for the military and in schools and universities. It also encourages efforts by the Red Cross Society of Georgia to implement its new statutes.

Presence (2008): 128 staff, including 13 expatriates

Operational update

14-12-2007

ICRC activities in Georgia : January to November 2007

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Operational update

Press article

30-4-2007

Georgia : A tale of three women

Since 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

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Press article

Stories from the field

7-4-2006

Georgia / Abkhazia: blues on both sides of the line

Five women reflect on poverty, families and solitude in the no-man's-land of life in a country divided since the conflict started in 1992. More than a decade on, lives remain on hold.

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Stories from the field Includes Photo