Reports

ICRC relief and medical staff have begun fanning out from Dili to assess the needs facing East Timorese as they return to their devastated towns and villages. Improved security conditions and the arrival this week of an ICRC helicopter have…

Table of Contents Map of East Timor Health Status Health Resources Health Infrastructure General Situation Dili Health Situation in East Timor East Timor West Timor Map of West Timor Displaced persons Potential Health Problems Immediate Priorities WHO Action WHO Action (contd) WHO Coordination Meeting - Jakarta (8 October 1999) Consolidated Appeal Health Manpower Health Profile of ET URGENT ACTION

Statement by Mrs Sadako Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Telecom 99 + InterActive 99 Forum Geneva, 14 October 1999 Mr Harbi, Speakers and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Coming here is an astonishing experience for a novice in telecommunications. Obviously, this…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today (Thursday) said Indonesia formally agreed to give it free and unimpeded access to refugees across West Timor which hosts some 230,000 East Timorese accommodated in squalid makeshift camps. The agreement signed…

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Ross Mountain, left for Kupang today after a two-day trip to Jakarta. Mr. Mountain met with Indonesian government officials, including State Minister Haryano to further discuss the voluntary return of East Timorese. Mr. Mountain also met…

The United Nations and the Indonesian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, guaranteeing the right of East Timorese refugees to return to their homeland. A U-N humanitarian aid spokeswoman, Afia Ali, says a group of around 300 East Timorese…

The Government of Japan will dispatch from October 17 (Sun) to 22 (Fri) to Indonesia, including West Timor, a field study mission, comprising officials of the Secretariat of the International Peace Cooperation Headquarters of the Prime Minister's Office, the…

The scattered debris are the poignant reminders of a past life - odd shoes, tattered clothing, papers from the school's english lesson litter the village - blackened squares of land are often the only thing left to denote the…

LONDON, 14 October -- Every night, almost 800 million people in the developing world go to sleep hungry, reports the first edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World, issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization…

Security: East Timor security remains at UN Security Phase 3. Road movements were downgraded to a minimum of 2 vehicles and 2 staff on green routes. OCHA Jakarta reports that all UN agencies left Atambua today, due to the security…