Assessments

Indonesia hosted more than 120,000 refugees and asylum seekers at the end of 2000. The vast majority, an estimated 120,000, were East Timorese. Of those, all but 10,000 were believed to be in the Indonesian territory of West Timor.…

At the end of 2000, an estimated 110,000 East Timorese refugees remained in the Indonesian territory of West Timor. An unknown number of persons, perhaps thousands, remained internally displaced in East Timor. Some 1,650 East Timorese asylum seekers were in Australia…

An estimated 50,000 North Korean refugees were living in China at the end of 2000. As many as 100,000 North Koreans were displaced inside North Korea. An unknown number of North Koreans who might be refugees were in Russia…

At the end of 2000, the Russian Federation hosted about 36,200 refugees and asylum seekers in need of protection. These included 26,065 refugees registered with Russia's Ministry of Federal Affairs, National and Migration Policy - MFA (which replaced the…

At the end of 2000, Tajikistan hosted some 12,400 refugees and asylum seekers, nearly all Afghans. Some 44,000 Tajiks were refugees in neighboring countries. Tajikistan is a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, and the Tajik Constitution provides for the…

At the end of 2000, Georgia hosted more than 7,600 refugees in need of protection, all of whom were refugees from the neighboring war-torn republic of Chechnya in the Russian Federation, except for a small number of refugees from…

At the end of 2000, some 3.6 million Afghans were living as refugees in other countries. A large majority were in Pakistan and Iran, which hosted 2 million and 1.48 million, respectively. Some 38,000 were in other countries in…

A third consecutive drought has affected crops in many parts of the country. During the last three years, Balochistan and parts of Sindh Provinces have received below average rainfall, which has progressively turned into a drought. These persistent drought…

Rome, June 2001 Highlights World cereal stocks will be drawn down again in 2001/02. Although latest indications continue to point to a larger cereal crop in 2001, output would be insufficient to meet global utilization for the third year in succession,…

Brussels, 14-20 May 2001 Explanatory notes 1. The opinion expressed and the information used in this document do not necessarily represent official UNDP policy or position. 2. The data are either extracted from United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (2000), the…