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UN: Georgian IDPs have right to return to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

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IDPs from Abkhazia living in a Sanatorium in Western Georgia (DFWatch)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the ninth consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly on June 7 passed a resolution calling for the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the wars in Georgia in the early 1990s.

The first resolution

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16 years on, refugees still living in temporary housing

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Refugees from the war in Abkhazia twenty years ago are still living in a derelict hospital kitchen building. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Twelve families of refugees are living in the kitchen building of a former hospital in Zugdidi, a town that lies not far from Abkhazia, the breakaway region they fled from.

For 16 years, they have been living in the derelict building, waiting to be

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Refugees from Abkhazia are in a difficult situation

Valentina Sajaia, 90, lives in Sanatorium with her grandchildren for last 20 years (DF Watch photo)
Valentina Sajaia, 90, lives in Sanatorium with her grandchildren for last 20 years (DF Watch photo)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Valentina Sajaia, 90, has been living in the Likani settlement for the last 20 years with about 120 other families, who were forced to leave their houses in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. She has raised four children without her husband

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UN calls for Georgia's internal refugees to be let to return

Georgia's UN Ambassador, Alexander Lomaia, says it won't be long until there is support from a majority of UN states for allowing refugees to return to their homes in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The UN General Assembly July 3 passed a resolution calling for internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia and so called South Ossetia, Tskhinvali region, to be let to return home.

It was a humanitarian resolution, addressing demographic

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Georgia's refugees to be top priority for the ombudsman

Refugees have organized themselves and ask for an allowance it is possible to live on. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Public Defender gives priority to the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Giorgi Tughushi presented his annual report on human rights in Georgia, which in details describes problems faced in different areas, like the prison

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