Informes

The wet season has now begun in East Timor, affecting both air and road mobility. The heavy rains have prioritised the need for stores to enable the continuing construction of camp accommodation. Due to the heavy rains, Interfet engineers…

Dili Office, East Timor Infectious Disease Surveillance & Epidemic Preparedness Unit Introduction: This is the first formal report of the team. It outlines the plan of action for the first six months, activities of the team to date, describes progress towards epidemic…

The latest round of national immunization against polio in Afghanistan reached 3.8 million children, exceeding the results of the first phase carried out earlier this year, UNICEF, the United Nations Children' Fund, reported today. UNICEF representative told a news briefing in…

Indonesian army officials today informed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that they would deploy troops at one of the agency's camps to allow staff to begin repatriation of some 7,000 refugees. The UN refugee agency had been…

by Martha Thompson I. INTRODUCTION Many East Timorese were jubilant on Oct. 19 when the Indonesian parliament recognized East Timor's independence, but the more than 220,000 East Timorese in militia-controlled refugee camps in West Timor have had little to celebrate. Traumatized…

Amnesty International - Report - ASA 11/12/99 November 1999 Afghanistan Two decades of conflict, repression and neglect have had a devastating effect on civil society in Afghanistan. With the virtual collapse of the educational system there are now several generations of…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Quoted text from this briefing note may be attributed to the UNHCR spokesperson named below left Ron Redmond 1.…

The worst flooding of this century had happened in eight central provinces from Quang Binh to Quang Nam-Da Nang of Vietnam, home to seven millions people or one tenth of population and a stretch over 375 miles. Rains stopped…

WELLINGTON (Nov. 11) XINHUA - New Zealand will contribute 150,000 NZ dollars (78,000 U.S. dollars) to Red Cross flood relief work in central Vietnam, New Zealand's Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced here Thursday. In a statement, Upton said his…

A senior United Nations official today met with the leader of the Indonesian armed forces to discuss the militia's ongoing harassment of relief workers helping to repatriate people from West Timor. In a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, Ross Mountain, UN…