Rapports

Three United Nations experts have begun investigating alleged human rights abuses in East Timor. Speaking at a press conference today in Dili, Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Execution said that the three envoys had held…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

This document is intended for public information purposes only. It is not an official UN document. At a glance Militiamen disrupt UNHCR move to repatriate an estimated 7,000 refugees at Noelbaki camp outside the West Timor capital of Kupang. More than 160…

Security: Three separate incidents involving targeted attacks against returnees occurred on 7 November. In the first incident, a group of youths attacked a truck carrying returnees from the Don Bosco transit centre in Dili to their homes in Liquica. In…

Tran Vin was lost for words when Red Cross volunteers found him sitting on a pile of bricks in the Dong Phuoc commune, about 16km from Hue. The 76-year-old farmer was wiping tears from his eyes, his hands swinging…

HANOI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Helicopters and trucks filled with emergency supplies began pushing further into devastated parts of central Vietnam on Monday as the death toll from the region's worst floods in a century hit 527. Forecasters have predicted…

There has been an increase in returnees to East Timor with flights, boats and now land convoys bringing them to their homeland. Estimations are that up to 2,000 people per day are returning. Transit camps are being installed en route…

Hanoi, 8 November - The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has today given an additional 31,000 US dollars to the Vietnamese Red Cross, through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to help with relief…

HIGHLIGHTS 1999 rice production increases by 14 percent but maize output falls by 30 percent. Gains in rice attributed to more fertilizer and generally favourable irrigation while output in maize falls sharply due to sizeable reduction in…

The International Committee of the Red Cross is active throughout the island of Timor both in the East, with offices in Dili and Baucau, and in the West with offices in Kupang and Atambua. As a neutral and impartial…