International armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation - August 2008
The ICRC has mounted a significant humanitarian operation to help those injured, displaced or otherwise affected by August's international armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation.
Georgia / Russian Federation: a difficult winter ahead Three months since war broke out between Russia and Georgia, thousands of people face a difficult winter. The ICRC has been helping the most vulnerable including the displaced, dispersed families and the elderly.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
22-10-2008 Operational update
Georgia/South Ossetia: remote areas lack food, proper access to health care In an effort to assess the overall humanitarian situation in rural South Ossetia and to provide assistance, the ICRC recently visited the Akhalgori/Leningori area, mostly populated by ethnic Georgians, and Ossetian villages such as Khetagurovo, Avnevi, Khodabula and Didi Tskhiata.
(News)
7-10-2008 News release
Georgia: ICRC delivers insulin to Tskhinvali Tskhinvali (ICRC) – A one-month supply of insulin was delivered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to Tskhinvali today.
(News)
3-10-2008 Operational update
Georgia/Russian Federation: ICRC continues to assist the most vulnerable Nearly two months after the beginning of the conflict that displaced thousands, people have begun to return to villages north of Gori. The ICRC continues to distribute food and household items to those most in need and inform the population about mines and unexploded ordnance.
Georgia / Russian Federation: a difficult winter ahead Three months since war broke out between Russia and Georgia, thousands of people face a difficult winter. The ICRC has been helping the most vulnerable including the displaced, dispersed families and the elderly.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
Features and interviews
15-10-2008 Feature
Georgia: you can't put hope in a box Kakha Khasaia's career with the Red Cross spans 16 years during which he has done practically every job, from guard to head of office. Jessica Barry caught up with him at his base in Zugdidi.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
7-10-2008 Feature
Georgia: 200,000 meals cooked in under three weeks. Thousands of displaced people in Gori cannot meet their basic needs. Even preparing meals has become a challenge to them. The Italian Red Cross offers them a lifeline.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
1-10-2008 Feature
Georgia: the elderly hard-hit by conflict When conflict in Georgia drove thousands of people from their homes, those too old and weak to flee stayed behind, often isolated. Zoé Brabant, a member of the ICRC mobile health team that went into Gori to assist them, shares her experience.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
26-9-2008 Feature
Georgia: portraits from Tbilisi The elderly are amongst the greatest casualties of the recent war in Georgia and South Ossetia, particularly because of the manner in which it has changed their lives irrevocably. The ICRC’s Jessica Barry has been talking to some of them.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
24-9-2008 Feature
Georgia: portrait from Zugdidi Many people who fled conflict in Abkhazia in 1992-3 remain displaced in Western Georgia and are now being joined by families made homeless by the recent fighting. A visiting ICRC team, including Jessica Barry, has been checking on their wellbeing.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
10-9-2008 Feature
Georgia: ICRC mobile clinic helps villagers with chronic diseases For people cut off from health services in remote villages affected by the conflict in Georgia and South Ossetia, the mobile clinic run by the Norwegian Red Cross and ICRC is a lifeline in more ways than one.
(The ICRC worldwide\Eastern Europe and Central Asia\Georgia)
