Informes

This year, the focus of Australian assistance to East Timorhas been on a) assistance to conduct the UN Popular Consultation Process on autonomy for East Timor and b) humanitarian aid to deal with the growing internal refugee crisis in…

From ICRC NEWS 38 Two ICRC delegates returned to Dili on 14 September to assess the situation there in humanitarian terms and meet military authorities to discuss security guarantees that would enable the organization to resume its work in East…

The Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI - Indonesian Red Cross) and the International Committee of the Red Cross have formed a special task force to assist refugees fleeing violence in East Timor. To date over 150,000 refugees have fled to…

Thursday, 16 September 1999: The grave situation in East and West Timor has put hundreds of thousands of children and women in immediate peril, UNICEF said today. As many as 500,000 people have been displaced from their homes and…

The Australian-led peacekeeping force will not be allowed to help thousands of refugees trapped in Indonesian-controlled West Timor. The Prime Minister, John Howard, says unless the Indonesian Government gives it permission, the UN force will not be allowed into West Timor. It…

STRASBOURG, 15.09.99 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the following declaration at today's meeting of the Ministers' Deputies: 1. The Committee recalled its Declaration of 26 November 1991, in which it reaffirmed, inter alia, its…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE Church World Service is the Humanitarian Agency of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 35 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs EMERGENCY ACCOUNT #976505 for $1 million Signed…

CONTACT: Sue Aitkin or Cynthia Glocker, CARE USA, (404) 681-4579, ext. 203/453 ATLANTA (September 15, 1999) - CARE staff in West Timor are now assembling thousands of survival kits for displaced families living in camps outside the capital, Kupang. The kits…

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited the Republic of Indonesia in February 1999, and on that occasion also traveled to East Timor. The visit to East Timor was prompted by the considerable preoccupation, in the international community in…

The House International Relations Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific passed a resolution September 15, condemning he violent efforts of East Timor militias and elements of the Indonesian military to overturn the results of the August 30 East Timorese…