Informes

The Commission on Human Rights will hold a special session on the situation in East Timor starting on Thursday, 23 September 1999. The decision to hold the special session, the fourth in the Commission's history, is the result of consultations held…

Background In early September, pro-integrationist militias in East Timor conducted a week-long rampage in several cities and towns following a UN-supported vote for independence from Indonesia. Hundreds of civilians were killed and more than 300,000 were displaced from their homes in…

INTERFET - What is it? The United Nations Security Council last week voted unanimously for a resolution which established the Australian-led multi-national force for East Timor. This force is known as INTERFET (the International Force for East Timor) The INTERFET…

UN forces arrived in Dili yesterday, but E. Timorese refugees in the west remain at risk. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KUPANG, INDONESIA - Early this month Mariano, a little boy with round eyes and a…

With the arrival of the first contingent of international peacekeeping forces, expectations are high that humanitarian groups can begin working in East Timor in the very near future. Until then, and until the prayed for day when some 200,000…

Geneva, September 20, 1999 - An estimated quarter of the East Timorese population (some 200,000 people) has fled to West Timor since pro-Indonesian militias unleashed their reign of killing and terror on September 4. Another 190,000 people are believed to…

Good afternoon. I'm glad to see fewer cameras here. I hope that means there are more over there. As you know the United Nations sent a flight into Dili today. It left at approximately 2:00 this afternoon I think.…

Questions and Answers: (New York, September 20, 1999) On September 14, the United Nations Security Council condemned the violence perpetrated in East Timor since the August 30, 1999 referendum and demanded "that those responsible for such acts be brought to…

(New York, September 20, 1999) -- Human Rights Watch warned today that tens of thousands of East Timorese pushed out to West Timor by Indonesian army-backed militias could be "transmigrated" to other parts of Indonesia within weeks, making it…

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian response: The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, traveled to Jakarta on Friday and…