Foreign and Georgian Experts of Psychotrauma Agree on Post-emergency Psychosocial Responses
The population traumatized as a result of the August Conflict needs qualified psychosocial assistance during the post-crisis period as well as afterwards. The state party should elaborate long-term strategy of the mental health care for those affected covering 3-5 years. These are (amongst others) the conclusions of the International conference "Post-Emergency Responses in crisis situation: An Integrative Approach to Psychotrauma" that was held in Tbilisi on 17-18 October of 2008. You can read the report on this conference in PDF format [179kB] 
November 2008

Emergency situation Georgia, August 2008
South Ossetia is one out of two conflict zones in Georgia existing since early nineties, immediately after the country became independent. The inter-ethnic conflicts were built on the existed political conflict with Russia, though Russia was not seen as a side in conflict by international community, which allow Russian peace keeping forces to move into the region, freeze the conflict and since then continuously control the situation. Article by Nino Makhashvili, MD, Chairperson Georgian Society of Psychotrauma (GSP) in PDF format [31kB] 
September 2008

UN torture investigator blasts US White House defense of waterboarding
International Herald Tribune reports a controversy on torture methods.
The United Nations' torture investigator blasted the White House for defending the use of waterboarding on Wednesday, and urged the U.S. government to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods. Associated Press in the International Herald Tribune
February 2008