Informes

Efforts to establish a functioning judicial system in East Timor will get a boost tomorrow when the United Nations Transitional Administration swears in a panel that will appoint judges. Transitional Judicial Service Commission to appoint a dozen judges, who will…

General: Operations are gearing-up following the holiday period, particularly in the shelter sector. To date, four vessels carrying shelter materials have arrived in Dili, with two ships currently off-loading in the harbour. Supplies are being stored in a large central…

Hijacked Indian Plane in Kandahar Following the landing of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane in the Kandahar airport on Sunday 26th December 1999, a three-member UN team, headed by Mr Erick de Mul, the UN Coordinator for Afghanistan flew to…

ULAN BATOR (Jan. 2) XINHUA - By the end of 2000 there was a total of 30.1 million sheep, goats, horses, camels and cows in Mongolia -- 3.47 million, or 10.3 percent, less than in 1999, according to the…

President Clinton December 28 announced new steps to improve nutrition and education for an estimated nine million school children in developing countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The White House issued the following fact sheet on…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM Church World Service is the Relief and Development Agency of the 35 member denominations of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A 35 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs EMERGENCY ACCOUNT…

Situated close to the normal warm water pool of the southwest Pacific, Papua New Guinea can be seriously, and quickly, affected by El Niño events. Historically the most common direct effect of the eastward movement of…

The main purpose of the project was to enhance the understanding of El Niño issues through a review of current early warning and preparedness systems in national, regional and global contexts; and through an assessment of…

Bangladesh is one of the worst victim regions of El Niño/La Niña impacts. The existing geophysical and socio-economic settings of the country help increase both the vulnerability to and severity of those events. The country's agro-based…

Because of its geographical setting, Vietnam has a long history of coping with weather- and climate-related hazards such as storms, floods and droughts. As a result, it has developed a comprehensive system of disaster management, which,…