Rapports

This issue is produced by the Office of Communication and Public Information (OCPI) in cooperation with the Donor Coordination Unit. It contains information through the second week of June 2000. INTRODUCTION Severe flooding caused problems in East Timor, particularly in Suai, Viqueque…

LOCATION East Timor HEADQUARTERS Dili DURATION 25 October 1999 to present SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATOR Sergio Vieira de Mello (Brazil) DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Jean-Christian Cady (France) DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN…

Press Release - SG/SM/7474 The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is distressed by the news that an overcrowded boat carrying persons fleeing the clashes in northern Maluku province of Indonesia and bound…

From IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES 30 June 2000 by Niurka Piñeiro, IOM Spokesperson The UNHCR/IOM joint repatriation programme of Afghan refugees from Iran to Afghanistan continues to areas outside the worst drought-affected provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Farah and Nimroz. In these provinces,…

From IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES 30 June 2000 by Niurka Piñeiro, IOM Spokesperson The numbers of refugee returns from West Timor slowed again this week as the stand-off over security in the Kupang camps continued. The NTT governor has now agreed…

Never knowing when the next tremor will strike is a strange feeling. You get on with a life as normal as possible, cooking, working, going to school, shopping and sleeping. But subconsciously you are aware that any minute the…

Update on OTI's Assistance to Sierra Leone Diamond Policy USAID/OTI's assistance to the Government of Sierra Leone to develop a new diamond policy and operations is advancing on several fronts. Consultations in London by OTI and the U.S. Department of State…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Response Office of Transition Initiatives Program Description The Office of Transition Initiatives in Indonesia seeks to assist, accelerate, and secure the process of reform and democratization in this enormous island nation.…

The UN Development Coordinator represents the UN agencies in the bi-monthly donor meetings on the Trust Fund for East Timor and the Preparatory Committee for the Lisbon Donor Conference. In addition, the UN agencies have been…

‘Vulnerable Water’Jose Hueb, WHO Water, Sanitation and Health Department of Protection of the Human Environment Approximately 1.1 billion people globally do not have access to adequate supplies of clean drinking water and about 2.5 billion people have no access…