Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of hundreds of refugees from Uzbekistan who fled to Kyrgyzstan after security forces reportedly fired on thousands of mainly unarmed and peaceful demonstrators in the city of Andizhan, in Uzbekistan, on 13 May 2005.
This document follows up on Amnesty International’s report Kyrgyzstan: refugees in need of a safe haven This report updates that account, and is based on information gathered from interviews and documents obtained by an Amnesty International delegate on a visit to Kyrgyzstan from 21 – 30 July 2005. Amnesty International received disturbing reports that law … متابعة قراءة Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan in pursuit of refugees in Kyrgyzstan: a follow-up report
This document outlines the situation of Sudanese refugees on the Chad border, both inside and outside of camps
This is a brief report on the delegations itinerary, and meetings with displaced people.
This document outlines urgent protection issues faced by civilians displaced from Darfur.
This document outlines the extent of human rights violations in Darfur, and in the camps for people displaced by the abuses there. It includes recommendations for conflict resolution.
This short update looks at the situation following the events at a Moscow theatre, when a group of some 50 people described as Chechens took hostage over 700 people during a performance. In the wake of the hostage incident in Moscow, the situation in and around Chechnya – including the camps for internally displaced persons … متابعة قراءة Russian Federation: update on the situation regarding Chechens and in the Chechen Republic following the October hostage taking incident in Moscow
In February 2001, thousands of people from indigenous minorities, collectively known as Montagnards, held protests in the Vietnamese Central Highlands focusing on a number of grievances, including anger at government confiscation of their ancestral forest homelands, an influx of lowland Vietnamese settlers taking their agricultural land, lack of freedom of worship for the many who … متابعة قراءة Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority
Since 27 February 2002 the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have launched two waves of incursions into the Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in 1967, using tanks, armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and Apache helicopters. In the six weeks up to 11 April 2002 more than 600 Palestinians may have been killed and more than 3, 000 … متابعة قراءة Israel and the Occupied Territories: the heavy price of Israeli incursions
This document describes the experiences of two Nepalese refugees from Bhutan as illustrations of the problems facing the people in the refugee camps. They are waiting for the governments of Bhutan and Nepal to come to an agreement on their right to return to Bhutan. But ten years after they first arrived at the refugee … متابعة قراءة Bhutan: ten years later and still waiting to go home: the case of the refugees