In October 2002 Amnesty International launched a major worldwide campaign to highlight the discrepancy between the human rights protection which those living in the Russian Federation have in international and national law, and the reality of widespread human rights abuses committed in a climate of impunity.

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Interactive flash animation on the human rights situation in Russia
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Photos: A girl in Ingushetia stands at the entrance to a former chicken farm now used to house people fleeing the fighting in Chechnya / The parents of Kheda (Elza) Kungaeva show photographs of their daughter taken before and after she was abducted and killed by Russian soldiers. The conflict in Chechnya has been characterized by widespread and credible reports that Russian forces have been responsible for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including "disappearances", extrajudicial executions and torture, including rape. Some 300,000 people, the majority of them women and children, have fled their homes to escape the fighting. © Paula Allen