She visited the township of Tanzila near Nazran where forced migrants from Chechnya are dwelling and settlement Berkat where refugees from the Prigorodny region of North Ossetia had come to live in 1992.

According to Dr. Yakin Erturk, the purpose of her visit is to examine cases of violence against women in the republic. "My task is to inform the world community about the situation which I shall see here," she said in a RIA Novosti interview.

On Monday night Dr. Yakin Erturk is to meet with representatives of non-governmental women's organizations of Ingushetia.

On Tuesday she will visit the Chechen Republic. On December 22 she is to return to Ingushetia to meet with the Republic's authorities.

Source: Novosti