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Civil Society and NGO Reports, Papers and Statements

Worse Than a War: “Disappearances” in Chechnya—a Crime Against Humanity
Human Rights Watch, March 2005

Written NGO Statement Submitted to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
World Organization against Torture, the International Federation of ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture), le Comité catholique contre la faim et pour le développement (CCFD), and Médecins du Monde-International, 60th Session, 3 March 2004

Russian Federation: Chechen Republic "Normalization" in Whose Eyes?   
Amnesty International Report, 23 June 2004

Glad to be Deceived: The International Community and Chechnya
Rachel Denber, Human Rights Watch World Report, January 26, 2004

Russian Federation/Chechnya: Briefing to the 60th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
Human Rights Watch, January 2004

Into Harm’s Way: Forced Return of Displaced People to Chechnya
Human Rights Watch, January 2003

Endless Genocide at Caucasus and Chechen Tragedy
The Caucasus Foundation, May 2002

Chechnya - Terror and Impunity. A Planned System
International Federation for Human Rights, March 2002

End Impunity for Crimes In Chechnya
Human Rights Watch Letter to Members of the Russian Duma-Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Working Group on Chechnya, 28 March 2002

Memorandum to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Chechnya
Human Rights Watch, 18 March 2002

Russian Federation Serious Violations of Women's Human Rights in Chechnya
Human Rights Watch, Memorandum to Members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), January 2002

“No Happiness Remains”: Civilian Killings, Pillage, and Rape in Alkan-Yurt, Chechnya
Peter Bouckaert, Human Rights Watch, 2000

Chechen Women in Armed Conflict of 1994-2000
A report published by the Union Women of the Don Region on the gendered impact of armed conflict in Chechnya and women's peacemaking activities.

Violations of the Rights of Peaceful Civilians, Captives and Federal Soldiers in the Course of the Military Operation in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
The Committee of Mothers of Russian Soldiers

Declaration of the Committtee for Soldier's Mothers
Ludmilla Obraczova, Member of the Committee of Mothers of Russian Soldiers, Summit of Seven Resistance, Lyon, 27 June 1996 (held in parallel with the G7 summit)

UN Reports

Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee : Russian Federation
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, November 6, 2003

UNHCR Paper on Asylum Seekers from the Russian Federation in the context of the situation in Chechnya
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, February 2003

Government Statements and Reports

The Human Rights Situation in the Chechen Republic
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, 13 March 2003

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Russia
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2001

Books, Journals and Articles

Dedovshchina and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers under Gorbachev
Julie Elkner. The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, Issue 1, July 2004

A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
Anna Politkovskaia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
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Brutality and Indifference
Anne Nivat, Crimes of War Magazine, April 2003

The Russian Army in Chechnya
Pavel Felgenhauer. Crimes of War Magazine, April 2003

Photo Essay: International Women's Day, March 8, 2002
Thomas Dworzak. Crimes of War Magazine, April 2003

A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya
Anna Politkovskaia. London: Harvill, 2001
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Inside Chechnya: Misery, Fear, and Abuse
Refugee Reports. Bill Frelick (ed.). Vol. 22, No 2, February 2001

Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya
Anne Nivat, translated by Susan Darnton. New York: Public Affairs, 2001
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Russia's Mothers - Voices of Change - Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia
Brenda J. Vallance. Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Fall-Winter 2000

Russia-Chechnya: Chain of Mistakes and Crimes
Edited by O.P. Orlov and A. V. Cherkasov, staff of the Human Rights Center Memorial, 1998
This book details the armed conflict and violations of human rights in Chechnya.
Copies in Russian are available by contacting Memorial

Behind Their Backs: Russian Forces' Use of Civilians as Hostages and Human Shields During the Chechnya War
Human Rights Center Memorial, 1997

By All Available Means: The Russian Federation Ministry of Internal Affairs Operation in the Village of Samashki: April 7-8, 1995
A.Blinushov, A.Guryanov, O.Orlov, Ya.Rachinsky and A.Sokolov, Observer Mission of Human Rights and Public Organizations in the Conflict Zone in Chechnya, Independent research, 1996