Informes

CONTACT: Cynthia Glocker, CARE USA, (404) 681-2552 or (404) 734-4061 ATLANTA (September 21, 1999) - CARE's Patrice Charpentier will tomorrow fly into Dili to assess the acute emergency needs of people in Dili displaced by the recent conflict. Charpentier was evacuated…

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian response: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): An inter-agency team is scheduled to visit Dare today to assess the humanitarian conditions of internally displaced persons in the camp…

Stephanie Kriner, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org Even as peacekeepers bring the first signs of stability to East Timor, hundreds of thousands of refugees living in the mountains or in squalid camps are on the brink of starvation. Ongoing violence, which erupted…

Provisional edition - Situation in East Timor - Recommendation 1421 (1999)1 1. Assembly debate on 21 September 1999 (27th Sitting). See Doc. 8534, report of the Political Affairs Committee (rapporteur: Mr de Puig). Text adopted by the Assembly on 21 September…

FOOD DROPS Emergency supplies have reached the East Timorese who fled to the mountains for safety. Since Friday, September 17, Australian Defence Force (ADF) planes have dropped emergency food aid, including rice and humanitarian ration packs. Contacts on the ground…

Ross Mountain, the humanitarian coordinator appointed by the Secretary-General and the World Food Program made another assessment yesterday in Dili of the warehouses where they have rice stored. They found that recent looting has reduced the rice stock from…

21 September -- As it prepared to move back into its ransacked headquarters, the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) said today the situation in the territory's capital Dili was calm, with security incidents limited to the arrest…

Violence intensified in East Timor following a "special consultation" or referendum on August 30, under the auspices of the United Nations, in which nearly 80 percent of voters rejected special autonomy within Indonesia, and thus supported East Timor's independence. Since…

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 High Commissioner…

WHO: World Vision Canada aid worker Philip Maher, along with a small assessment team, is re-entering Dili, East Timor 24 hours ahead of a contingency of international aid groups. World Vision is one of the leading aid organizations working…