Informes

While humanitarian assistance is still needed for the health sector in DPRK, more long-term solutions are required that can enhance recovery of the health sector. At the same time the emergency activities should aim at local capacity building that…

AT A GLANCE Returns to Dili pick up Returnees search for relatives Destruction of property in East Timor continues UN mission reaches Atambua, West Timor EAST TIMOR UNHCR staff in East Timor's capital on Thursday estimated that 70,000 residents have returned to the city…

General Situation: The majority of people who sought safety in Dare during the crisis have now entered Dili. The influx has been orderly, with most people proceeding directly to their homes. Under the leadership of WFP and ICRC, humanitarian agencies…

The harvesting of the summer crops is well underway in DPRK. The rice has been cut and is now sheathed and waiting collection in the dried out paddies. Other crops being harvested include potatoes, soy beans and maize. Agricultural workers…

WELLINGTON (Sept. 30) XINHUA - New Zealand is ready to accept about 300 refugees from East Timor after an urgent request for assistance from the United Nations. The Dominion, a Wellington-based newspaper, Thursday quoted Prime Minister Jenny Shipley as saying…

From ICRC News 39 On 27 September the ICRC in Dili gathered 230 messages from people anxious for news of their relatives. Having learned by word of mouth that the ICRC's tracing agency had opened an office in Dili, people…

Heidi Q is a midwife from London, England and has been with MSF since 1993. She has been in Dili since July and was part of the MSF team evicted from East Timor in the post-independence referendum violence. In…

OCHA: The Humanitarian Coordinator, Ross Mountain, arrived in Darwin on Wednesday night after spending nearly 10 days in East Timor. Mr. Mountain met with members of the humanitarian community (UN agencies and NGOs), CNRT leaders, Northern Territory government officials and members…

Distr. GENERAL A/54/422 30 September 1999 Original: ENGLISH Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 116 (c) Human rights questions: human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives Note by the Secretary-General The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the members of the General Assembly…

News Service: 184/99 AI INDEX: ASA 21/176/99 MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty International has today sent a Letter to UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, recommending certain criteria to ensure a thorough, independent and effective inquiry into serious human rights violations committed in East Timor in the…