Informes

NB. The following is a brief summary of the situation in east and West Timor and CAA/Oxfam's response so far. As communications have been down lately, we have received limited information. More detailed updates will be in progress when…

World Vision is distributing emergency kits to an estimated 80,000 people who have fled from East Timor. The kits will contain blankets, sarongs, plastic sheets, soap, and water jugs. "We expect the stream of displaced people crossing into West Timor…

The MSF teams that were expelled from East Timor are safe in Darwin, Australia and have made it clear they would like to return to East Timor as soon as possible. The only place for direct action, at the current…

At first glance, the reasons behind the Acehnese struggle for independence and their assertion of refugee status are not self-evident. Aceh is, after all, overwhelmingly Muslim, like the rest of Indonesia, and the Acehnese make no claim to a…

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 SITUATION: As Indonesia rejected demands for an international…

Food production is heavily influenced by the pattern of monsoon rains which have an important bearing on performance during the main (wet) and secondary (dry) seasons. The wet season normally extends from October to March and produces some 60…

A Human Rights Watch Press Backgrounder (August 27, 1999, New York) - The twenty-four year conflict in East Timor may be nearing the end game with voters there choosing on August 30 between autonomy under Indonesian sovereignty and independence. But…

Amid reports that as many as 140,000 persons are internally displaced in Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) calls upon the Indonesian government to respect the rights of displaced persons enshrined in…

S/1999/595 22 May 1999 Question of East Timor Report of the Secretary-General 1. The present report is submitted in pursuance of paragraph 8 of Security Council resolution 1236 (1999) of 7 May 1999, in which the Council requested…

A/53/951 - S/1999/513 5 May 1999 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Fifty-third session SECURITY COUNCIL Fifty-fourth year Question of East Timor Report of the Secretary-General 1. The Security Council will be aware of the efforts which, since 1983, the Governments of Indonesia and Portugal have undertaken…