Informes

Update on Displacement In Kabul, the number of arrivals of displaced persons entering the city since 8 August now stands at almost 21,000 families. Heads of displaced households in Kabul are currently able to obtain permission to visit their homes in…

Refugees returning yesterday begin task of putting the territory back together again. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DILI, EAST TIMOR Maria Catarina Napam cried when she saw Dili. She returned to East Timor from a makeshift camp in…

ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme announced today it is launching a $21.6-million appeal to widen its ongoing emergency food distribution to displaced people in East Timor and to start "food-for-work" rehabilitation projects in the strife-ravaged territory. Under the…

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 Kris…

General Situation: The UN Security Council adopted resolution 1272/1999 on 25 October which establishes a United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) for an initial period until 31 January 2001. The UNTAET mandate covers legislative and executive authority, as…

S/RES/1272 (1999) 25 October 1999 Adopted by the Security Council at its 4057th meeting, on 25 October 1999 The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and the statements of its President on the situation in East Timor, in particular resolutions 384 (1975) of…

There was an influx of 641 returnees to Maliana on Monday and MSF undertook medical supervision from a mobile clinic at the Catholic School as well as an out patients department (OPD) at the hospital. At the Baucau location, MSF…

EAST TIMOR -- Early last week Indonesian Parliament endorsed the results of East Timor's vote for independence, and plans to transfer power officially by the end of the year. Some of the 200,000 East Timorese who fled or were…

Calling it an important challenge coming at a crucial time for the people of East Timor, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today said that the United Nations will move quickly to establish the newly-authorized UN Transitional Administration for East Timor (UNTAET). Following…

At a glance East Timorese continue to walk across the border Total returns top 18,000 Security in West Timor still precarious East Timor East Timorese continued to cross from West to East Timor on foot with a group of 641 almost exclusively men arriving today,…