Reported by: Emon crwenewswire Mideast correspondent.
Amnesty International said that Georgia must do more than the bare minimum to provide housing, jobs, and health care for more than 200,000 people displaced by war over the past two decades.
The Report said that many people were displaced during wars in Abkhazia and south Ossetia in the early 1990s and they continue to live in very dire condition, with some 42 percent still in kindergartens, hotels, hospitals and barracks.
In a report two years after the Georgia’s war with Russia over rebel South Ossetia, the UK based rights watchdog said that they suffered unemployment and exclusion from society.
Displaced people need more than just a roof over their head, they need the government to ensure employment, access to health care and benefits, they need also to be consulted and to be able to make choices affecting their life.
The Government of Georgia was praised for how quickly the displaced people were placed in new settlements and for the plan to improve living conditions for those displaced over the past 20 years.
Pro Russian South Ossetia and Abkhazia threw off Georgian rule with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s. In 2008, more than 100,000 people on both sides were displaced when Russia crushed a Georgian assault on separatist South Ossetia, some 26,000 Georgian are unable to return.
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