Soviet-Era Registration System Fosters Discontent in Kyrgyzstan
Azim Pasanov’s home on the outer limits of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s capital, has no water and no electricity. Eighteen years after he moved there, his life remains unsettled. Doctors won’t see his...
View ArticleSevere Flooding Creating New IDPs in Azerbaijan
When the sun finally came out recently, women at a temporary camp in Shirvan, in central Azerbaijan, tried to tidy the tents they now call home, and restore a semblance of normalcy to their lives.read...
View ArticleTbilisi Uses Hip-Hop to Raise Awareness of IDP Issue
“Mr. President, are you ready to rock?” exclaimed Senegalese hip-hop star Youssou N' Dour as Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili arrived at a May 26 concert that was designed to raise awareness about the...
View ArticleGeorgia Prepares for Local Elections
Georgia’s May 30 local elections are providing an opportunity to gauge the mood of tens of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons, many of who will be voting for the first time since Tbilisi’s...
View ArticleAid Organizations: Georgia’s IDPs Face Risk of Hunger
Two years after Georgia’s August 2008 war with Russia, the end of an international food assistance program could put thousands of families displaced by the conflict at risk for hunger, two...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Authorities Using Soviet-Style Controls to Reverse Urbanization...
Copyright show: No Three years ago, Said Davlatov left his farm in Uzbekistan’s remote Karshi Province, moved to Tashkent, and became a construction worker. The move paid off: he recently bought a...
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