Reports

Period covered: 13 June - 5 July 2000The July distribution will complete Phase 1 of the operation related to the distribution of a supplementary 6 month food ration to selected households. Despite the need to focus assistance…

Yesterday's Jakarta Post and Borneo Bulletin reported that President Abdurrahman Wahid had ordered the Ministry of Forestry and Estate Crops (MoFEC) to establish a task force to anticipate a recurrence of large-scale forest fires. The President's…

ISLAMABAD - The UN Co-ordinator, Erick de Mul, traveled to Kandahar yesterday to follow up with the Taliban authorities on the recent issue concerning the employment of women that surfaced in Kabul on 6th July 2000. On his return Mr.…

SUMMARY: Islamic Relief is just coming the end of an $86,000 food assistance programme in the drought-hit region of Baluchistan, Pakistan. As the drought, however, continues to severely handicap people’s everyday lives, Islamic Relief has submitted a proposal…

In a race against time, the Philippine Red Cross stepped up its search and rescue operation in the shantytown of Payatas, just outside Manila. After days of heavy rains, hundreds of people were buried under refuse as a wall…

Dili, 12 July 2000 REGULATION ON TRANSITIONAL CABINET APPROVED A regulation on the establishment of a transitional cabinet was adopted by the National Consultative Council (NCC) today. The cabinet, outlined in the regulation On the Establishment of the Cabinet of the Transitional…

The United Nations' chief humanitarian official for Afghanistan, Erick de Mul, said today in Islamabad that the issue concerning the employment of women by the United Nations in Afghanistan was in the process of being resolved. According to Marie Okabe,…

Funding The Government of Denmark has pledged US$ 313,367 to the UNOCHA Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan. Aid Workers Arrested in Kabul Ms. Mary MacMakin, head of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan (PARSA), and her 15 female and male staff were…

AI Index ASA 11/003/2000 News Service Nr. 137 The release of a United States aid worker in Afghanistan is an important development, but Taleban must immediately release her seven female Afghan colleagues who are believed to remain in detention, Amnesty International…

Geneva, 12 July 2000 Some 4,000 persons, both Muslim and Christian, have died in the 18 months of sectarian fighting in the Maluku islands and more than half a million persons have been displaced since violence first erupted in the…