[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4735176.stm]
This story talks about IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) from Chechnya who live in squalid refugee camps in Russia. Notice that the UN Human Rights Commission, not the UN High Commissioner on Refugees, is handling this issue. This is because IDPs aren't considered refugees by the United Nations. I think they should be, though. If they were, they would be protected from refoulement and be covered by the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees. These Chechen people might as well be international refugees because they obviously don't have the same rights as regular Russian citizens.
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Posted by Kylan to DupyLinks at 2/21/2006 10:43:53 AM
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