IACERHRG

The International Association "CAUCASUS: Ethnic Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics" (IACERHRG) (1998–2004) was a Non-governmental, Non-profit, public, scientific, and educational organization. The Association was founded on October 29, 1998, in Tbilisi (Capital of the Republic of Georgia).

Chairmans of the Association were: Dr. Bas van der Plas (The Netherlands) and Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze (Republic of Georgia).

On November 13, 2004 IACERHRG was renamed. New name of the Association is: The Association for Protection of the Rights of the Refugees from Abkhazia (APRRA).

Main goals of the IACERHRG were:
#Permanent monitoring of the Human Rights situation in the Republic of Georgia and the Caucasus
#Study the Ethnic Relations and Conflicts in the Caucasus;
#Study the questions of the Caucasian Geopolitics;
#Study the history of Georgia and the Caucasus;
#Study the history of Human Rights movement in the Caucasus;
#Study the problems of the Rights of the Nations (Peoples);
#Study the history of the Intercultural Relations of the Caucasian Peoples;
#Educational and publishing activity, etc.

The Association had individual members and member organizations from: the USA, Czech Republic, Sweden, the Netherlands, Republic of Georgia, Norway, Germany, Azerbaijan, Chechen Republic, Ukraine, Armenia and other countries.

Publications of the IACERHRG

* Information-Analytical Bulletin "Adamianis Uplebebi" ("Human Rights". 1998-2003)
* "Proceedings of the First International Congress "The Contemporary World and Human Rights in Georgia" (Batumi, Republic of Georgia, February 23-25, 2000)". Eds: Dr. Bas van der Plas and Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze, Tbilisi, 2000, 100 pp (in Georgian and English)
* "Yearbook of IACERHRG - 2000". Ed. Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze, Tbilisi, 2001, 100 pp (in Georgian, English and Russian)
* "Yearbook of IACERHRG - 2001, 2002". Ed. Dr. Levan Z. Urushadze, Tbilisi, 2003, 200 pp (in Georgian, English and Russian)

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/office_aprra/APRRA.html Web Site of APRRA]

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