Timor-Leste
By Tim Johnston DILI, East Timor, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Aid organisations are starting to bring in assistance for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in East Timor, but the lack of security is hampering efforts to help, aid workers…
Timor-Leste
STRASBOURG, 23.09.99 - The COUNCIL OF EUROPE Parliamentary Assembly Sub-Committee on media today firmly condemned the murder of Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes and other recent attacks on journalists in East Timor. The Committee expressed shock at this deliberate act against a…
Timor-Leste
Press Release WHO/48 While the world has responded quickly and generously to the plight of the people of East Timor by sending medicines and other supplies, it is more urgent at this point to restart basic healthcare services, World Health…
Indonesia + 1 more
Humanitarian Emergency Since the announcement of the ballot results in Dili on 4 September 1999, tens of thousands of East Timorese and non-East Timorese have left East Timor, mainly for West Timor but also to other islands. They have joined…
Indonesia + 1 more
(New York, September 23, 1999) -- Human Rights Watch today will urge the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, meeting in emergency session in Geneva, to establish a high-profile commission of inquiry to investigate human rights abuses in East Timor. "It…
Timor-Leste
A major humanitarian effort is set to be launched in East Timor. It is set to begin with emergency food drops in eastern parts of the territory. A United Nations team is already in East Timor making an early assessment of…
Timor-Leste
Location: East Timor Incident Date: 6 September 1999 Hazard Type: Civil Unrest Summary: The result of the United Nations sponsored popular consultation on a special autonomy for East Timor within the Republic of Indonesia, held on 30 August, was…
Timor-Leste
Mientras la situación sanitaria de los desplazados internos en Timor Oriental empeora día a día, Médicos del Mundo-Internacional reclama el acceso a la zona para prestar atención médica a estas personas. Tres equipos de Médicos del Mundo-España, Portugal y Francia,…
Timor-Leste
CONTACT: Franne Van der Keilen (410) 625-2220, ext. 3505 fvander@catholicrelief.org Tom Price (410) 625-2220, ext. 3615 tprice@catholicrelief.org Baltimore, September 22, 1999 - Catholic Relief Services has committed an additional $250,000 of its private funds to relief efforts in East…
Afghanistan
HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN Update on Displacement Kabul Area and Northern Displacement Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are still streaming out of the Shamali Valley, north of Kabul. Despite an earlier decrease, larger numbers entered the capital during the past week, with 550…
