For anyone who has ever been to Abkhazia, the pot holed road from the Inguri Bride through the Gali region and up into Sukhum/i will be struck by the devastation of the 1992-1993/4 war*. Buildings, houses, villas, remain in ruins. The Gali region, mostly inhabited by some 45,000 Georgian retournees will have to endure yet […]
Water is something we rarely think about; we get up in the morning and turn on our taps to brush our teeth, hop in a nice hot shower and pour ourselves a glass of ice water on a hot summers day, all without a thought about how clean it is or where it came from. […]
Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the international court at The Hague, said Wednesday his office is assessing allegations of war crimes in Georgia. Ocampo met with Russian and Georgia officials to go over claims of attacks on non-combatants in the conflict over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. “My office considers carefully all […]
Pregnancy and birth should be happy times for women and their families, however in many countries they are cause for grave concern as high levels of mortality follow both. While both maternal and infant mortality are easily preventable, there numbers remain at shocking highs in many countries around the world. In recent news some countries […]
As Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces he will punish Georgia, reports from the war-torn country suggest that Russia may not be fully withdrawing. Both France – the current president of the European Union – and the United States cautioned Russia to abide by the terms of the ceasefire. Meanwhile, the Manchester Guardian notes that Georgia's […]
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (UPI) — An Iraqi court resumed session Monday in the case against former Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz for the execution of several merchants in 1992. Aziz, a Christian, and seven other defendants face war crimes charges in an Iraqi court for ordering the execution of several businessmen who had protested rising […]
Rwanda has cast a long shadow over France. Within that darkness lurks a web of lies and deceit. If justice prevails then French ministers and military officers will stand trial at the International Criminal Court. On Tuesday morning, August 5th, the Mucyo commission publicly released a 337-page report accusing France of complicity and participation in […]
The sacrifice that some children make at such young age is hard for most to imagine, but across the world many young people sacrifice their education and future to support that of their families. War, natural disasters and poverty have left many families and children seeing little options for survival and prosperity, causing many to […]
“A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie…. Children have been treated … as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.” – Beatrix Campbell, British journalist. Do we hear the voices of the […]
As Jurist notes, Georgia has filed a complaint against Russia at the ICJ, and Russia is seeking evidence of war crimes by Georgian forces.
Many heard the buzz and outrage over China's now infamous lip singing little girl at the opening ceremony. The 7 year old, Yang Peiyi, had won a national song contest to sing at the Opening Ceremonies, was replaced by 9 year old Lin Miaoke, who was deemed as more attractive, and suitable for the world […]
When Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili traveled to the Georgian-Abkhaz ceasefire line last year, he promised a crowd of Georgian refugees their return to Abkhazia within a year. But Saakashvili's promises to Georgian refugees rang hollow, even before the current crisis. A combined total of some 250,000 Georgians fled Abkhazia following the 1992-1994 war and the […]
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