Civilians in Georgia remain vulnerable to serious human rights abuses,
including attacks on the basis of their ethnicity, despite the end of
large-scale hostilities.
Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's
After months of increased tension, and recent low-level hostilities,
the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia
escalated in the early mo
Amnesty International has called on all sides to the conflict in South
Ossetia to fully respect international humanitarian law in order that
civilians are protected
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
