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Children in countries hit by war have their say
22 Sep 2009 14:52:00 GMT
Author: World Vision

World Vision talks to children in Georgia, Gaza, Lebanon, Abkhazia and Kosovo about what it is like for a child to survive war and what the children are doing to promote peace in their countries. Watch the video here:

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MEDIAWATCH: Analysts say Russia is losing control of N.Caucasus after suicide bomb in Ingushetia
19 Aug 2009 17:01:00 GMT
Author: James Kilner

A suicide bomb that killed 25 people outside a police station in the south Russian region of Ingushetia on Monday was the deadliest attack in the North Caucasus in about four years.

The Kremlin had claimed this year thatrebels - a mixture ofIslamist extremists, separatists and the disgruntled-had been defeated. But this summer bomb attacks, gun fights and kidnappings in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia have risen.

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Poverty and insecurity after Russia-Georgia war
06 Aug 2009 09:46:00 GMT
Author: Peter Biro

As Russian tanks rolled into the village of Aradeti on the border between Georgia and the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia, Nikoloz Titvinidze gathered his two children and fled for his life.

There were shells falling everywhere, Nikoloz, 48, says. It was horrible.

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MEDIAWATCH: Murder of Chechen human rights worker shines spotlight on North Caucasus
30 Jul 2009 14:20:00 GMT
Author: James Kilner

With thinly disguised understatement, Alexei Malashenko, an analyst at the Moscow branch of the Carnegie think tank, summed up the security situation in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.

It's clear that the picture is less than rosy, he wrote in an opinion piece for the Moscow Times. ...

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The refugee crisis Europe forgot
18 Jun 2009 08:51:00 GMT
Author: Save the Children

By Phoebe Greenwood

Just outside Montenegro's capital Podgorica, next to the city's rubbish dump, is Konik refugee camp. A sprawl of tin-roofed huts and U.N. tents enclosed by wire-fencing, it is home to more than 2,000 Roma refugees who have lived here for ten years since fleeing violence in Kosovo. It is the largest refugee camp in the Balkans. Hundreds of children live here in inhuman conditions without enough food or water and yet almost no one outside of Montenegro has heard of it.

Conditions in Konik are dire. Fires are a regular threat and often fatal. Three weeks ago, a blaze caused by faulty wiring destroyed 18 wooden huts and left 124 people without shelter. These families now live in U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) tents or have moved in with relatives in their already over-crowded shacks. This time, luckily, no lives were lost.

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