Informes

Press Contact: Shanta Bryant, 202-667-8227 x127 NGO Contacts: James Bishop, Director of Humanitarian Response, 202-667-8227, x104 Stephen Hricik, Senior Program Associate, x106 The following InterAction member information is directly provided by each agency and is updated on a regular basis. Additional details of…

International Service for Human Rights UN Commission on Human Rights Special Session on East Timor, 23-24 September 1999 Statement by Aniceto Guterres Lopes Your Excellency, My name is Aniceto Guterres Lopes. I am an East Timorese lawyer. I was eight years…

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said nine tons of plastic sheeting as well as jerry cans and medical kits for 30,000 people were airlifted to Dili. Two truckloads of supplies were immediately taken to Dare, about 10…

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 Kris Janowski The first interviews…

In the wake of the violence which began on 5 September following free elections, UNICEF was forced to evacuate East Timor. The recent arrival of a multinational peacekeeping force is making it possible for the the agency to resume…

BY AMBASSADOR GEORGE E. MOOSE, U.S. Delegate to the Special Session of the Commission on Human Rights Geneva, Friday September 24, 1999 The Government of the United States of America supported the call for this special session in response…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Overview Following an overwhelming UN-supported vote for independence from Indonesia on August 30, pro-integrationist militias in East Timor rampaged and plundered through several cities and…

News Release No. 2000/053/EAP WASHINGTON, September 24, 1999 - The World Bank will convene an informal meeting next Wednesday, September 29, in Washington DC, of interested member country representatives, representatives from East Timor, and delegates from bilateral and multilateral agencies. The…

Dressed in clothes donated by The Salvation Army in Darwin, Australia Southern Territory, refugees from the terrible war-torn conditions on Timor were received this weekend in the Puckapunyal Safe Haven, only recently vacated by its previous tenants, the Kosovars. The…

ADRA News Release" Contact: Beth Schaefer, News & Information Officer Phone: (301) 680-6355 Fax: (301) 680-6370 JAKARTA, INDONESIA--The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) finished its first distribution of food parcels to thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) of East Timor,…