Informes

ATLANTA (September 8, 1999) - CARE has dispatched a team of humanitarian aid workers to estimate the needs of thousands of internally displaced people who have fled East Timor as a result of the current conflict and are now…

Australian non-governmental aid agencies (NGOs) have launched urgent appeals to deal with the humanitarian crisis in East Timor. The most recent reports say escalating Indonesian military-backed violence in the wake of the territory's historic vote for independence has virtually destroyed the…

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World Vision is responding to the growing crisis in East Timor. Violence has forced the agency to suspend its relief operation in Dili, East Timor. The relief operation is now mounted from Australia. A shipment of rice is already on…

East Timor's vote for independence has resulted in a huge upsurge in violence led by militias loyal to Indonesia. The militias are mainly made up of migrants, sent to East Timor by the Indonesian government to boost the non-Timorese…

By Claudia Gazzini JAKARTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Indonesia imposed martial law and a shoot-on-sight curfew in East Timor on Tuesday and freed resistance leader Xanana Gusmao as the tiny territory descended deeper into violence and thousands fled. But despite growing…

STRASBOURG, 07.09.99 - COUNCIL OF EUROPE Parliamentary Assembly President Lord RUSSELL-JOHNSTON today appealed urgently to the Indonesian Government to halt the violence committed by the armed anti-independence militia in East Timor. "If the Indonesian Government and army are unable to quell…

Natural disasters from 1995 to 1997 and economic problems since the early 1990s, which have seriously affected national capacity to import food, essential inputs and energy, have severely undermined food security in DPR Korea. Efforts by the country to…

A Security Council mission to convey the international community's "serious concern" about the worsening situation in East Timor is on its way to Indonesia and is expected to arrive in Jakarta early Wednesday morning, a United Nations spokesman said…

With martial law declared in East Timor in a last-ditch effort to reign in the rampaging militia, the United Nations moved its personnel Tuesday to the safety of its compound in the territory's capital, a UN spokesman said in…