Timor-Leste
United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Response Office of Transition Initiatives Country Situation East Timor has successfully separated, at a high human cost, from Indonesia and the international aid effort is in full swing. So far, there are…
Afghanistan
Over 100,000 new refugees fled the fighting that intensified in August and September as the Taliban attacked villages, destroyed buildings, looted and burned homes and killed innocent citizens. These refugees continue to travel to the north near the Tajikistan…
Timor-Leste
General: Access to the Ambeno enclave by humanitarian agencies continues to be adversely affected by the limited seating availability on UNTAET helicopters. In particular, medical professionals have not been able to travel to Oekussi to staff the general hospital. While…
Afghanistan
A/54/706 - S/2000/20 Identical letters dated 12 January 2000 from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council I have the honour to refer to my annual report on Afghanistan (A/54/536-S/1999/1145) submitted on…
Timor-Leste
A European Union arms embargo against Indonesia introduced last September in reaction to violence in East Timor, expires next Monday and is not expected to be renewed. The A-F-P newsagency quotes an unnamed E-U source as saying the embargo will…
Indonesia + 1 more
There is a continuing need to return up to 120,000 displaced persons in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of…
Timor-Leste
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NOON BRIEFING BY FRED ECKHARD SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Today in East Timor, UN Police and International Force in East Timor (INTERFET) investigators completed the exhumation of a mass gravesite in Maubara, near the town…
Timor-Leste
A lack of law and order has been causing concern in East Timor, JRS reports. Dili and Los Palos have reported street fighting among youth gangs roaming the streets. Residents complain that there is no police presence to prevent…
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
COUNTRY SITUATION Three of every 10 children under two suffer severe malnutrition Six of every 10 children under seven suffer from stunted growth Approximately 10,000 children in need of special protection Educational gains threatened Health care system in crisis Re-emerging threats of polio, tuberculosis and…
Timor-Leste
REGIONAL SITUATION During the post-referendum violence, more than 75 per cent of the East Timorese population was displaced Over 70 per cent of the province's private house stock, public buildings and utilities were destroyed As of November 1999, an estimated 250,000 people…
