Informes

As violence in the East Timor capital of Dili seemed to diminish Thursday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that a small contingent of United Nations staff would remain at its besieged compound. The Secretary-General told reporters upon entering UN Headquarters in New…

AI Index: ASA 21/140/99 EXTRA 127/99 Amnesty International fears for the safety of the entire population of East Timor. Armed pro-Indonesian militias and Indonesian troops have complete control of the territory and are committing grave human rights violations with impunity. An…

Testimony before the House International Relations Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (September 9, 1999) by Sidney Jones, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, Asia Division I believe that the catastrophe we are seeing in East Timor today…

(99-46) News Release Ottawa -- Canada, through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), will provide humanitarian assistance to displaced people from East Timor, Maria Minna, Minister for International Cooperation announced today. "Thousands of people have fled their homes to escape the…

Current Crisis in East Timor More than 30,000 People Forced to Flee The violence and displacement following East Timor's August 30 independence vote has gained international attention. As the United Nations wrestles with a solution, massacres continue daily. At…

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General I think we have a number of journalists at the back of the room from the World Press Institute of Macalester College --…

Reiterating her grave concern over continuing human rights violations in East Timor, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson announced today she will go to the region on Saturday to obtain a first-hand assessment of the situation. The…

News Service 169/99 AI Index: ASA 21/142/99 9 September 1999 I am writing to you now in the light of the serious human rights crisis facing the people of East Timor today. The United Nations'(UN) responsibility for the well-being of the…

World Vision relief staff has learned that its development projects in rural East Timor, around Ailieu, have been burned to the ground. The Canadian-funded project assists almost 2,000 children and their families who are sponsored by Canadians across the…

The East Timor crisis has been declared a Category III emergency by the President of World Vision International. Dr Dean Hirsch has called for a major response from the global World Vision Partnership and nominated Darwin as one of…