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 … Continue reading 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 document is a summary of a report specifically looking at the actions of the IDF in Jenin and Nablus between April and June 2002. The report examines allegations of unlawful killings; the use of Palestinians as human shields during military operations; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of people detained; blocking of … Continue reading Israel and the Occupied Territories: shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus: summary
This report specifically looks at the actions of the IDF in Jenin and Nablus between April and June 2002. The report examines allegations of unlawful killings; the use of Palestinians as human shields during military operations; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of people detained; blocking of medical assistance, food and water; and … Continue reading Israel and the Occupied Territories: shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus
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 … Continue reading 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 … Continue reading Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority