How You Can Help

There are several ways you can help the Chechen people and the international movement to end Russia’s savage war in Chechnya:
 

•  Support IDEE’s Chechnya Information and Support Fund, which goes to support Chechen NGOs and their work to disseminate first-hand information about the situation inside Chechnya, including the publication of Dispatches from Chechnya in English, and their work to develop the civil society in Chechnya. Make checks to IDEE (Chechnya Fund) and send to: 1808 Swann Street, Suite A, Washington, DC 20009  USA.

• Support the work of Khassan Baiev, the front-line surgeon from Chechnya and author of The Oath, and chairman of the International Committee for the Children of Chechnya. Dr. Baiev has worked to uphold the Hippocratic oath by treating both Chechens and Russians wounded in Chechnya, and his organization provides humanitarian and medical aid to Chechnya's children. 

• Join the international actions of European Parliamentarian Olivier Dupuis and the Transational Radical Party in their efforts to support Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmadov’s peace plan for Chechnya and to encourage the EU, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, and the U.N. to take action to pressure Russia to put an end to the war in Chechnya.

• Write President George Bush, Secretary of State Powell, and Senators Richard Lugar and Joseph Biden (Senate Foreign Relations Committee) urging the support of Ilyas Akhmadov’s peace plan and opposing Mr. Akhmadov’s deportation from the U.S.to Russia.

• The following organizations monitor human rights and the violations of international agreements in Chechnya and lobby for international action to end the war: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Subscribe to their action lists and monitor their websites for new human rights actions

  For further information regarding this program, please contact Eric Chenoweth or Irena Lasota at [email protected].