DOCSLIB.ORG

Health Sector Field Directory

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

HEALTH SECTOR FIELD DIRECTORY Republic of Chechnya Republic of Ingushetia Russian Federation June 2004 World Health Organization Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia TABLE OF CONTENTS ORGANIZATION 1. Agency for Rehabilitation and Development (ARD/Denal) 2. CARE Canada 3. Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development (CPCD) 4. Danish Refugee Council/Danish Peoples Aid (DRC/DPA) 5. Hammer FOrum e. V. 6. Handicap International 7. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 8. International Humanitarian Initiative (IHI) 9. International Medical Corps (IMC) 10. Islamic Relief (IR) 11. International Rescue Committee (IRC) 12. Medecins du Monde (MDM) 13. Medecins Sans Frontieres – Belgium (MSF-B) 14. Error! Reference source not found. 15. Medecins Sans Frontieres - Holland (MSF-H) 16. Medecins Sans Frontieres - Switzerland (MSF-CH) 17. Memorial 18. People in Need (PIN) 19. Polish Humanitarian Organisation (PHO) 20. Save the Generation 21. SERLO 22. UNICEF 23. World Vision 24. World Health Organization (WHO) 2 Agency for Rehabilitation and Development (ARD/Denal) Sector: Health; Food; Non-Food Items; Education Location: Chechnya and Ingushetia Objectives: To render psychosocial support to people affected by the conflict; to provide specialised medical services for women and medical aid for the IDP population; to support education and recreational activities; to supply supplementary food products to vulnerable IDP categories with specific nutritional needs; to provide basic hygienic items and clothes for new-born; to help the IDP community to establish a support system for its members making use of available resources. Beneficiaries: IDP children, youth, women and men in Ingushetia and residents in Chechnya Partners: UNICEF, SDC/SHA CONTACT INFORMATION: INGUSHETIA Moscow Karabulak, Evdoshenko St. 56 Mrs. Luba Archakova, Programme Director Mrs. Zulikan Nikaeva, Co-ordinator of Psychological Project Tel: (8734) 44 42 90; 44 49 97 E-mail: [email protected] PROGRAMME ACTIVITY: ARD/DENAL is engaged in medical, psychosocial and educational programmes in 24 spontaneous settlements of Ingushetia and 8 mountainous locations in Chechnya. ARD/DENAL is largely involved into community work, mine awareness education and protection of IDP rights and interests. As such, larger degree of emphasis and focus are put on ARD maintained number of tents hosting schools, sport activities, IDP information and psychological medical support centres. After closure of “Sputnik” camp ARD moved its health post’ gynaecological services to the remaining “Satsita” IDP tent camp. It also operates one mobile medical unit (1 general physician, 1 paediatrician and 1 nurse) in selected settlements of Sunzha and Nazran districts in Ingushetia (see Table N1). ARD/DENAL counsellors provide daily psychological assistance along with the medical aid in 8 rural areas of Chechnya. Organised group work with children and their parents, teachers take place. ARD/DENAL hospital counsellor works with wounded patients of city hospital N9 (Grozny) assisting with psychological help, provision of required drug and referral, if required, to out-of-town treatment. The organisation plans to phase out of Chechnya and concentrate on implementation of more psychosocial and educational projects for Chechen IDPs in Ingushetia. ARD/Denal has a team of 76 people, including 2 doctors, 32 teachers and 23 counsellors. There are 14 people working in psychotherapy. Staff practices home visits. There are 32 project groups, each consisting on average of 12 people with on place follow up mechanisms. 3 LOCATIONS: • Health post – 1 in “Satsita” IDP camp (Gynaecology) • Mobile Medical Unit (MMU)– 1 (Physician, Paediatrician, Nurse) (see Table N1) • Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre – 12 (6 in Ingushetia and 8 in Chechnya) (See Table N2) Table N1 Location (Sleptsovskaya) Location (Karabulak) MRO ZhBI RPK Kar’er Ingushhimservice Promzhibaza Detsky dom Neftebaza MTF-4 and “Rassvet” Burploshadka Oksanov garage Souyzgaz Konservny zavod MTF-1 Location (Troitskaya) MTF-1 and “Saturn” Stroiuchastok MTF-2 Yandare STF Barsuku Torgovi Dom Plievo Table N2 Area covered by ARD Rehabilitation Centres Ingushetia Chechnya 1. Promzhilbasa (Karabulak) 1. Shali 2. MTF-1 (Karabulak) 2. Shatoi 3. Kar’er (Karabulak) 3. Serzhen-Yurt 4. Ingushhimservice 4. Chechen Aul 5. Duba-Yurt 6. Elistanzhi 7. Tevzanai 8. Khattuni 4 CARE Canada Sector: Health and Psychosocial Location: Chechnya and Ingushetia Objectives: To provide community-based psychosocial support to vulnerable groups, to enhance their psychosocial well being. Beneficiaries: Children, Youth and Adults Partners: BPRM, UNICEF, ECHO, Ministry of Education (MoE) CONTACT INFORMATION: INGUSHETIA Moscow Nazran, Kunaev street 38 Moscow, Krasina street 24/1/19 Ms. Christiane Tremblay, Country Representative Ms. Nadezhda Figurina, Ms. Christine Ash, Program Coordinator Administrative Office Tel/Fax: (8732) 22 16 60 Tel/Fax: (095) 254 59 96 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Email: [email protected] PROGRAMME ACTIVITY: Since October 2000, CARE has been implementing projects in the psychosocial arena and is an implementing partner of UNICEF, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (BPRM) and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO). CARE’s specific programming strategy in the North Caucasus focuses on community mobilisation and local capacity building in the psychosocial arena. Projects include vocational and adult learning programmes, pro-social promotion, small income generation support, and life skills training. It is expected that this approach will strengthen local people’s own resources for their return to Chechnya in the reconstruction and peace-building phase. Opportunities for youth to resume or complete their education. Increase the employability and self-sufficiency of youth who chose not to return to formal education. Enhance the capacity of youth to plan for more satisfying and productive futures within their society. Promote youth leadership and community participation through life skills education and structured social activities. 35,000 IDPs based in six locations Mental health and educational professionals using their experience and skills can render qualified assistance in reducing negative stress reactions in children through a community- based approach to intervention with severely traumatized children, which builds on family strengths and community involvement. LOCATIONS: • Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre: MTF – Ingushetia and Grozny (see Table 1) Table N1 Area covered by CARE Canada Ingushetia Chechnya 1. MTF (Karabulak) 1. TAC Michurin street 11 5 2. Aki-Yurt 2. TAC Ponyatkova street 11 3. TAC Mayakovskogo 119 4. TAC Mayakovskogo street 140 5. Children’s Centre (Library for Blind People) 6. School in Pervomaiskaya village 7. Technical College #2 (vocational training) 8. Medical College (vocational training) 6 Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development (CPCD) Sector: Food; Health; Education; Mine Action Location: Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Dagestan, Karachai-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria Objectives: To address food needs of displaced and vulnerable people; to provide psychosocial support to war-affected children; to support education and training and the rehabilitation of schools; to help build local capacities for conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the North Caucasus; to provide gynaecological, psychosocial and complementary medical assistance to displaced women; to raise awareness among young people of the dangers of landmines and UXO, drugs and alcohol. Beneficiaries: Displaced and local populations; vulnerable individuals and groups Partners: UNICEF, WFP, WarChild Netherlands CONTACT INFORMATION: INGUSHETIA Moscow Nazran, Tenistaya street 66 Suschevskaya ul. 8/12, office 515 127030 Moscow Ms. Sophia Pugsley, Programme Co-ordinator Ms. Marina Baisangurova, Administrator Adlan Adaev, Executive Director Tel/Fax: (8732) 22-62-12 Tel: (095) 775 48 67 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Fax: (095) 775 48 66 E-mail: [email protected] PROGRAMME ACTIVITY: CPCD was founded in 1995 in response to the needs of suffering civilians during the 1994-1996 Chechen war. CPCD now works in Chechnya, Ingushetia and across the North Caucasus. Programmes include psychosocial assistance to traumatised children in Chechnya and Ingushetia via “Little Star” centres, provision of gynaecological and psychosocial help to pregnant IDPs in Malgobek, an education programme in IDP camps in Ingushetia, reconstruction/repair of war-damaged schools in Chechnya, distribution of humanitarian aid, a vocational training programme for IDP youth, mines awareness and conflict resolution initiatives across the North Caucasus. The psychosocial rehabilitation centre ‘Little Star’ carries out group work and individual consultations with young people aged 7-23 affected by the war in Chechnya. Sixty counsellors work at thirty locations: five in IDP camps in Ingushetia, seventeen in Grozny and eight elsewhere in Chechnya. On average, each point targets 20 children (divided in two groups) over two months, totalling around 600 children every two months. CPCD conducts training sessions for Little Star staff and also organises a retreat outside the North Caucasus region every year. The Little Star co-ordination group conducts monthly internal seminars for the Little Star counsellors themselves and for teachers in Chechnya and Ingushetia. The Women’s Support Centre in Malgobek, established in November 2002, has a gynaecologist, two nurses,
Recommended publications
  • The Tourism Potential of the North Caucasus: the Formation, Characteristics and Development Prospects

    The Tourism Potential of the North Caucasus: the Formation, Characteristics and Development Prospects

    GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites Year XI, vol. 22, no. 2, 2018, p.347-358 ISSN 2065-0817, E-ISSN 2065-1198 DOI 10.30892/gtg.22206-293 THE TOURISM POTENTIAL OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS: THE FORMATION, CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS Svetlana ANDREYANOVA* Stavropol State Agrarian University, Department of Tourism and Service, 355017, 12, Russia, Stavropol, Zootekhnichesky Ave, e-mail: [email protected] Anna IVOLGA Stavropol State Agrarian University, Department of Tourism and Service, 355017, 12, Russia, Stavropol, Zootekhnichesky Ave, e-mail: [email protected] Citation: ANDREYANOVA, S., & IVOLGA A. (2018). THE TOURISM POTENTIAL OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS: THE FORMATION, CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS. GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites. 22(2), 347–358. https://doi.org/10.30892/gtg.22206-293 Abstract: This research looks at the North Caucasus region at the south of Russia, a bridge between the Black and the Caspian Seas, its unique geographical location that determined the diversity of natural, climate and ethnographic resources. The goal is to show the modern complications concerning of the North Caucasus Region unique offer on the world tourist market. This has been done by examining different zones of nature management with their features in region. For this research we used coefficients relate with the social and economic development, and tourism attractiveness. As a result, we found the existing problems which lead to low internal demand and adverse demand on the international tourist market. Through showing that the Solving these urgent problems together with implementation of the Development Strategies will make the North Caucasus an attractive resort for different kind of tourists.
  • Full Case Study

    Full Case Study

    National Park Service National Park Service U. S. Department of the Interior Civic Engagement www.nps.gov/civic/ Civic Engagement and the Gulag Museum at Perm-36, Russia Through communication with former prisoners and guards and an international dialogue with other "sites of conscience," The Gulag Museum at Perm-36, Russia, is building all its programs on a foundation of civic engagement. In December 1999, National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Marie Rust became a founding member of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience. At the Coalition’s first formal meeting, Ms. Rust met Dr. Victor Shmyrov, Director of the Gulag Museum at Perm-36 in Russia, another founding institution of the Coalition. Dr. Shmyrov’s museum preserves and interprets a gulag camp built under Joseph Stalin in 1946 near the city of Perm in the village of Kutschino, Russia. Known as Perm-36, the camp served initially as a regular timber production labor camp. Later, the camp became a particularly isolated and severe facility for high government officials. In 1972, Perm-36 became the primary facility in the country for persons charged with political crimes. Many of the Soviet Union’s most prominent dissidents, including Vladimir Bukovsky, Sergei Kovalev and Anatoly Marchenko, served their sentences there. It was only during the Soviet government’s period of “openness” of Glasnost, under President Mikael Gorbachev, that the camp was finally closed in 1987. Although there were over 12,000 forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, Perm-36 is the last surviving example from the system.
  • Numéro De Dossier File-Number

    Numéro De Dossier File-Number

    Numéro de dossier File-number COUR EUROPÉENNE DES DROITS DE L’HOMME EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS Conseil de l’Europe – Council of Europe Strasbourg, France REQUÊTE APPLICATION Timishev v. Russia présentée en application de l’article 34 de la Convention européenne des Droits de l’Homme, ainsi que des articles 45 et 47 du règlement de la Court under Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights And Rules 45 and 47 of the Rules of the Court 1 I. THE PARTIES A. THE APPLICANT 1. Surname: Timishev 2. First name(s:) Ilyas Yakubovich Sex: male 3. Nationality: Russian 4. Occupation: Attorney at Law 5. Date and place of birth: 13.10.1950, USSR 6. Permanent Address: ……………………., Nalchik, Russia. 7. Tel. No.: ………………….. 8. Present address (if different from 6.): …………................., Grozny, Russia. 9. Name of Representatives: (1) James A. Goldston, Julia Harrington, Open Society Justice Initiative; (2) Vladimir Luzin 10. Occupation of Representatives: (1) Executive Director, Senior Legal Officer and Attorneys-at-Law; (2) Attorney, Lawyer, Nizhny Novgorod Committee Against Torture 11. Address of Representatives: (1) Open Society Justice Initiative, Oktober 6.u. 12. 7th Floor, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary . (2) Nizhny Novgorod Committee Against Torture Office 303, 11 Kozhevennaya Str. Nizhny Novgorod, 603001 Russia 12. Tel No. (1) +1-212-548-0347 (2) +7-831-433-1404 ___________________________________ B. THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTY 13. The Russian Federation 2 Introduction This application concerns discriminatory restrictions on the freedom of movement imposed upon people of Chechen and Ingush ethnicity. Since 1991 the Russian authorities have established a series of checkpoints on the two main roads between Nalchik in Karbardino-Balkaria and Grozny in Chechnya, severely restricting freedom of movement from one city to the other.
  • 28. Rights Defense and New Citizen's Movement

    28. Rights Defense and New Citizen's Movement

    JOBNAME: EE10 Biddulph PAGE: 1 SESS: 3 OUTPUT: Fri May 10 14:09:18 2019 28. Rights defense and new citizen’s movement Teng Biao 28.1 THE RISE OF THE RIGHTS DEFENSE MOVEMENT The ‘Rights Defense Movement’ (weiquan yundong) emerged in the early 2000s as a new focus of the Chinese democracy movement, succeeding the Xidan Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen Democracy movement of 1989. It is a social movement ‘involving all social strata throughout the country and covering every aspect of human rights’ (Feng Chongyi 2009, p. 151), one in which Chinese citizens assert their constitutional and legal rights through lawful means and within the legal framework of the country. As Benney (2013, p. 12) notes, the term ‘weiquan’is used by different people to refer to different things in different contexts. Although Chinese rights defense lawyers have played a key role in defining and providing leadership to this emerging weiquan movement (Carnes 2006; Pils 2016), numerous non-lawyer activists and organizations are also involved in it. The discourse and activities of ‘rights defense’ (weiquan) originated in the 1990s, when some citizens began using the law to defend consumer rights. The 1990s also saw the early development of rural anti-tax movements, labor rights campaigns, women’s rights campaigns and an environmental movement. However, in a narrow sense as well as from a historical perspective, the term weiquan movement only refers to the rights campaigns that emerged after the Sun Zhigang incident in 2003 (Zhu Han 2016, pp. 55, 60). The Sun Zhigang incident not only marks the beginning of the rights defense movement; it also can be seen as one of its few successes.
  • Science Lessons from the Gulag

    Science Lessons from the Gulag

    COMMENT BOOKS & ARTS 1930s. During the Great Terror of 1936–38 alone, some 1.5 million people were arrested and about 700,000 shot in a paroxysm of state-directed violence. In the journey to Wangenheim’s own end, the letters he sent from prison to his daughter Eleonora — just short of four years old at the time of his arrest — offer a counterpoint of hope. It was MEMORIAL/EDITIONS PAULSEN these that inspired the book. Rolin came upon Eleonora’s compila- tion of the letters in 2012, while visiting Russia. There are dozens of beautiful still- life sketches made by the meteorologist in prison — of clouds, aurorae, animals, fruit, aeroplanes, boats, leaves, trees. The colour drawings, some reproduced in the book, were partly a chronicle of life in the Gulag, but also a pedagogical tool. As Rolin notes, Wangenheim “was using plants to teach his daughter the basics of arithmetic and geometry” through riddles outlined in Alexey Wangenheim’s letters home included drawings and riddles about science and nature. accompanying text. In one, the “lobes of a leaf represented the elementary numbers, HISTORY its shape symmetry and asymmetry, while a pine cone illustrated the spiral”. The Solovki prison camp, in which Wangenheim crafted these lessons, was housed in a former Russian Orthodox mon- Science lessons astery on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. Although his time there was unimagi- nably harsh — with forced labour, poor food and grossly inadequate health care — the from the Gulag prison was unusual in having a well-stocked library and access to a radio, art supplies and Asif Siddiqi examines a biography of a Soviet stationery.
  • Download Article

    Download Article

    Advances in Engineering Research, volume 177 International Symposium on Engineering and Earth Sciences (ISEES 2018) Unique Natural Objects of Mountain Landscapes of the Chechen Republic Zaburayeva Kh.Sh. Gatsayeva L.S. Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geoecology Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geoecology Complex Research Institute named after Kh.I. Ibragimov, Complex Research Institute named Kh.I. Ibragimov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Oil and Gas Grozny, Russia Grozny State Oil Technical University [email protected] named M.D. Millionshchikov Grozny, Russia [email protected] Gayrabekov U.T. Dzhabrailov S.-E.M. Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geoecology Faculty of Geography and Geoecology Complex Research Institute named Kh.I. Ibragimov, Chechen State University Russian Academy of Sciences, Grozny, Russia Faculty of Geography and Geoecology [email protected] Chechen State University Grozny, Russia [email protected] Daukayev Asl.A. Sediyeva M.B. Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geoecology Department of Geology, Geophysics and Geoecology Complex Research Institute named Kh.I. Ibragimov, Complex Research Institute named after Kh.I. Ibragimov, Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Academy of Sciences Department of Earth Sciences Grozny, Russia Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic [email protected] Grozny, Russia [email protected] Abumuslimova I.A. Department of Biological and Medical Studies Academy of Sciences of the Chechen Republic Grozny, Russia indira_anChechen [email protected]
  • Status and Protection of Globally Threatened Species in the Caucasus

    Status and Protection of Globally Threatened Species in the Caucasus

    STATUS AND PROTECTION OF GLOBALLY THREATENED SPECIES IN THE CAUCASUS CEPF Biodiversity Investments in the Caucasus Hotspot 2004-2009 Edited by Nugzar Zazanashvili and David Mallon Tbilisi 2009 The contents of this book do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of CEPF, WWF, or their sponsoring organizations. Neither the CEPF, WWF nor any other entities thereof, assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product or process disclosed in this book. Citation: Zazanashvili, N. and Mallon, D. (Editors) 2009. Status and Protection of Globally Threatened Species in the Caucasus. Tbilisi: CEPF, WWF. Contour Ltd., 232 pp. ISBN 978-9941-0-2203-6 Design and printing Contour Ltd. 8, Kargareteli st., 0164 Tbilisi, Georgia December 2009 The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of l’Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the MacArthur Foundation and the World Bank. This book shows the effort of the Caucasus NGOs, experts, scientific institutions and governmental agencies for conserving globally threatened species in the Caucasus: CEPF investments in the region made it possible for the first time to carry out simultaneous assessments of species’ populations at national and regional scales, setting up strategies and developing action plans for their survival, as well as implementation of some urgent conservation measures. Contents Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction CEPF Investment in the Caucasus Hotspot A. W. Tordoff, N. Zazanashvili, M. Bitsadze, K. Manvelyan, E. Askerov, V. Krever, S. Kalem, B. Avcioglu, S. Galstyan and R. Mnatsekanov 9 The Caucasus Hotspot N.
  • Information for Persons Who Wish to Seek Asylum in the Russian Federation

    Information for Persons Who Wish to Seek Asylum in the Russian Federation

    INFORMATION FOR PERSONS WHO WISH TO SEEK ASYLUM IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in the other countries asylum from persecution”. Article 14 Universal Declaration of Human Rights I. Who is a refugee? According to Article 1 of the Federal Law “On Refugees”, a refugee is: “a person who, owing to well‑founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of particular social group or politi‑ cal opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country”. If you consider yourself a refugee, you should apply for Refugee Status in the Russian Federation and obtain protection from the state. If you consider that you may not meet the refugee definition or you have already been rejected for refugee status, but, nevertheless you can not re‑ turn to your country of origin for humanitarian reasons, you have the right to submit an application for Temporary Asylum status, in accordance to the Article 12 of the Federal Law “On refugees”. Humanitarian reasons may con‑ stitute the following: being subjected to tortures, arbitrary deprivation of life and freedom, and access to emergency medical assistance in case of danger‑ ous disease / illness. II. Who is responsible for determining Refugee status? The responsibility for determining refugee status and providing le‑ gal protection as well as protection against forced return to the country of origin lies with the host state. Refugee status determination in the Russian Federation is conducted by the Federal Migration Service (FMS of Russia) through its territorial branches.
  • HUMANITARIAN AID for the Victims of the Chechnya Conflict in the Caucasus

    HUMANITARIAN AID for the Victims of the Chechnya Conflict in the Caucasus

    EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AID - ECHO HUMANITARIAN AID for the victims of the Chechnya conflict in the Caucasus GLOBAL PLAN 2007 Humanitarian Aid Committee – December 2006 ECHO/-EE/BUD/2007/01000 1 Table of contents Explanatory Memorandum page 1) Executive summary..................................................................................... 3 2) Context and situation.................................................................................. 3 2.1.) General Context.................................................................................... 3 2.2.) Current Situation.................................................................................. 4 3) Identification and assessment of humanitarian needs.............................. 5 4) Proposed DG ECHO strategy....................................................................... 8 4.1.) Coherence with DG ECHO´s overall strategic priorities.................... 8 4.2.) Impact of previous humanitarian response......................................... 9 4.3.) Coordination with activities of other donors and institutions............ 10 4.4.) Risk assessment and assumptions........................................................ 10 4.5.) DG ECHO Strategy.................................................................................11 4.6.) Duration............................................................................................. 12 4.7.) Amount of decision and strategic programming matrix..................... 13 5) Evaluation.............................................................................................
  • Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya

    Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya

    Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya Egor Lazarev Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2018 © 2018 Egor Lazarev All rights reserved ABSTRACT Laws in Conflict: Legacies of War and Legal Pluralism in Chechnya Egor Lazarev This dissertation explores how the social and political consequences of armed conflict affect legal pluralism; specifically, the coexistence of Russian state law, Sharia, and customary law in Chechnya. The study draws on qualitative and quantitative data gathered during seven months of fieldwork in Chechnya. The data include over one hundred semistructured interviews with legal authorities and religious and traditional leaders; an original survey of the population; and a novel dataset of all civil and criminal cases heard in state courts. First, the dissertation argues that armed conflict disrupted traditional social hierarchies in Chechnya, which paved the way for state penetration into Chechen society. The conflict particularly disrupted gender hierarchies. As a result of the highly gendered nature of the conflict, women in Chechnya became breadwinners in their families and gained experience in serving important social roles, most notably as interlocutors between communities and different armed groups. This change in women’s bargaining power within households and increase in their social status came into conflict with the patriarchal social order, which was based on men’s rigid interpretations of religious and customary norms. In response, women started utilizing the state legal system, a system that at least formally acknowledges gender equality, in contrast to customary law and Sharia.
  • 1222 RUS Khashiyev H/Exec Disappearance Cases

    1222 RUS Khashiyev H/Exec Disappearance Cases

    DIRECTORATE GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW DIRECTORATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT FOR THE EXECUTION OF JUDGMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS H/Exec(2015)5 rev – 20 August 2015 ——————————————— Khashiyev and Akayeva v. Russian Federation (No. 57942/00) group of cases Overview of the Court’s judgments concerning enforced disappearances in the North Caucasus Memorandum prepared by the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights ——————————————— The opinions expressed in this document are binding on neither the Committee of Ministers nor the European Court. This document contains an overview of the judgments delivered by the European Court against the Russian Federation concerning enforced disappearances in the North Caucasus between 1999 and 2006 (Khashiyev and Akayeva group of cases). It also indicates the fate of the disappeared persons, where known, at the time of the examination by the European Court. 1 http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/execution/ 2 Case name Disappeared Facts as established by the Criminal investigation file, as Fate of disappeared persons Violations Application no. persons (name Court noted in the Court’s judgment as indicated in the Court’s found Date of definitive and year of birth) judgments (where known) judgment Bazorkina Mr Khadzhi-Murat The applicant’s son was Case no. 19112 opened on 14 July Unknown. Art. 2 69481/01 Yandiyev (1975) detained on 2 February 2000 2001 by the Chechnya Prosecutor’s (substantive 11/12/2006 by State servicemen during a Office under Article 126 § 2 of the and counter-terrorist operation in Criminal Code (aggravated procedural), the village of Alkhan-Kala kidnapping).
  • Russia the Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region

    Russia the Ingush-Ossetian Conflict in the Prigorodnyi Region

    Russia Page 1 of 32 RUSSIA THE INGUSH-OSSETIAN CONFLICT IN THE PRIGORODNYI REGION Human Rights Watch/Helsinki Human Rights Watch New York · Washington · London · Brussels Copyright © May 1996 by Human Rights Watch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 96-75960 ISBN: 1-56432-165-7 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report is based on a trip to the Republic of Ingushetiya, hereafter Ingushetiya, and the Republic of North Ossetia- Alaniya, hereafter North Ossetia, both states of the Russian Federation, from August 11-19, 1994. Until 1994, North Ossetia was the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR), a part of the former Soviet Union. Until 1992, Ingushetiya was part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR), and was also part of the former Soviet Union. Human Rights/Helsinki representatives visited Vladikavkaz, Kartsa, Chermen, Tarskoye, Kurtat, Dachnoye, and Maiskii in North Ossetia and Nazran and Gaziyurt in Ingushetiya. Jeri Laber and Rachel Denber edited the report, and Shira Robinson provided production assistance for its publication. Human Rights Watch/Helsinki thanks both North Ossetian and Ingush authorities as well as officials from the Russian Temporary Administration (now the Temporary State Committee) for their cooperation with the mission participants. Human Rights Watch/Helsinki would like to express our appreciation to all those who read the report and commented on it, including Prof. John Collarusso of McMaster University. We would also like to thank the members of the Russian human rights group Memorial, who provided generous assistance and advice. In 1994 Memorial published an excellent report on the conflict in the Prigorodnyi region, "Two Years after the War: The Problem of the Forcibly Displaced in the Area of the Ossetian-Ingush Conflict." Finally, we would like to thank the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Henry Jackson Fund, the Merck Fund and the Moriah Fund for their support.