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Georgia: IDPs in Georgia still need attention

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IDPs from 2008 resettle in government-built houses.
Photo: Christian Zeender, December 2008
Large-scale displacement was caused in August 2008 by conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation over the fate of the secessionist territory of South Ossetia. Most of the people displaced were later able to return to their homes in areas adjacent to the administrative border with South Ossetia, and most ethnic Ossetians returned to their homes in South Ossetia. However, some 37,000 ethnic Georgians who fled South Ossetia have not been able to return by mid-2009.

In addition to the people displaced in 2008, some 220,000 to 247,000 people from Georgia’s secessionist territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are still waiting for a solution to their displacement following conflicts which broke out in the early 1990s. The majority of them live in the region bordering Abkhazia and in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, face difficult conditions in former hotels and public buildings, and depend on meagre state benefits. Over the past years, some 45,000 people have returned to the Gali district in eastern Abkhazia, only to find poor conditions and economic prospects there. (...)

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Internal Displacement Profile

"Causes and Background ","Background","Causes of displacement"
"IDP Population Figures","Number of IDPs","disaggregated by age and sex where data are available","Location(s) of IDP populations"
"IDP Population Movements and Patterns","IDP Population Movements and Patterns"
"Physical Security and Integrity","Physical security","dignity","mental and moral integrity ","Liberty and freedom of movement "
"Basic Necessities of Life","Food and water ","Shelter and housing","Medical care and sanitation"
"Property, Livelihoods, Education and Other Economic, Social and Cultural Rights","Land and Property","Primary education and educational programmes","Work and livelihood opportunities and coping strategies"
"Family Life, Participation, Access to Justice and Other Civil and Political Rights","Documentation and citizenship","Voting and participation in public affairs","Right to information and participation","including women"
"Protection of Special Categories of IDPs (Age, Gender, Diversity)","Gender- Women and Men","Impact of displacement on gender identity and roles","Boys","girls and adolescents ","Indigenous peoples","minorities","peasants","pastoralists and other groups with a special dependency on and attachment to their lands "
"Durable Solutions (Return, Local Integration, Settlement Elsewhere in the Country)","Documented returns","settled locally and settled elsewhere","Prospects for and obstacles to voluntary return","local settlement and settlement elsewhere","Support for return integration and reintegration"
"National and International Response","International human rights and humanitarian law framework including references to the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement","National Response","Humanitarian access and assistance","International Response"

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News 
Displaced in Georgia get access to computer and information technology, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), February 2010
Georgia Reports On Efforts To House Displaced People From Abkhazia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), 29 December 2009
Georgian Conflict Exploitation Concerns, Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), 24 December 2009
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