Rapports

Indonesian army officials today informed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that they would deploy troops at one of the agency's camps to allow staff to begin repatriation of some 7,000 refugees. The UN refugee agency had been…

The worst flooding of this century had happened in eight central provinces from Quang Binh to Quang Nam-Da Nang of Vietnam, home to seven millions people or one tenth of population and a stretch over 375 miles. Rains stopped…

The latest round of national immunization against polio in Afghanistan reached 3.8 million children, exceeding the results of the first phase carried out earlier this year, UNICEF, the United Nations Children' Fund, reported today. UNICEF representative told a news briefing in…

by Martha Thompson I. INTRODUCTION Many East Timorese were jubilant on Oct. 19 when the Indonesian parliament recognized East Timor's independence, but the more than 220,000 East Timorese in militia-controlled refugee camps in West Timor have had little to celebrate. Traumatized…

Amnesty International - Report - ASA 11/12/99 November 1999 Afghanistan Two decades of conflict, repression and neglect have had a devastating effect on civil society in Afghanistan. With the virtual collapse of the educational system there are now several generations of…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Quoted text from this briefing note may be attributed to the UNHCR spokesperson named below left Ron Redmond 1.…

WELLINGTON (Nov. 11) XINHUA - New Zealand will contribute 150,000 NZ dollars (78,000 U.S. dollars) to Red Cross flood relief work in central Vietnam, New Zealand's Acting Foreign Minister Simon Upton announced here Thursday. In a statement, Upton said his…

A senior United Nations official today met with the leader of the Indonesian armed forces to discuss the militia's ongoing harassment of relief workers helping to repatriate people from West Timor. In a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, Ross Mountain, UN…

At a glance. UNHCR opens second land corridor for Timorese returnees as more than 2,000 refugees head home; third port to begin repatriation by boat from West Timor. Hundreds of refugees arrive at East Timor's Ambeno enclave one day after Indonesian…

West Timor: The Humanitarian Coordinator a.i., Ross Mountain, met today in Jakarta with the Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces, Admiral Widodo, who confirmed the policy of the Indonesian Government to fully support the voluntary return of East Timorese. The…