The Olof Palme International Center publishes the first independent report on human rights in Abkhazia

The Palme Center has decided to make public a report on the human rights situation in Abkhazia, a disputed territory in the former Soviet Union. The report is based on thorough research and several field visits by Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and earlier Secretary General of the Palme Center and Magdalena Grono, an expert on South Caucasus, now working with the International Crisis Group.The report states that the unresolved conflict has severe impact on the human rights of people living in the contested territory of Abkhazia, as well as of