Rapports

International aid agency to distribute food as start of $3.5 million aid effort A team of eight World Vision relief workers expects to arrive in Dili on Wednesday. They are part of the first contingent of private aid agencies…

Doc. 8534 Political Affairs Committee Rapporteur : Mr Lluis Maria de Puig, Spain, Socialist group Summary The annexation of East Timor by Indonesia on 17 July 1976 has never been accepted by the international community. On 30 August 1999, in a referendum organised…

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian situation: The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, traveled to Jakarta on Friday and Sunday visited affected populations in West Timor. During…

Food stocks in West Timor are rapidly dwindling under the pressure of 160,000 refugees who have escaped bloodshed in East Timor, says World Vision aid worker James Addis. "It looks as if the camps have enough food for now, and…

By Terry Friel DILI, East Timor, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Heavily armed multinational forces fanned out through East Timor's capital Dili on Monday and immediately began disarming pro-Jakarta militias responsible for weeks of savagery in the tiny territory. Ruined Dili was…

The first contingent of a multinational force led by Australia arrived in East Timor on Monday and set about immediately to secure key positions, including the United Nations compound in the capital Dili, a UN spokesman said in New…

The events of the last few weeks in East Timor had rocked the international community's conscience and much that happened was irreparable and could not be forgotten, Portugal's President Jorge Sampaio told the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. In…

The United Nations can succeed in combating war and poverty only by adapting to a world with new actors, new responsibilities and new possibilities for peace and progress, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the UN General Assembly on Monday as…

NEWS RELEASE Oxfam is flying out 28 tonnes of water equipment to help the people of East and West Timor. This first batch of aid, including mobile water tanks, purification tablets and latrines, will be loaded from Oxfam's Bicester warehouse on…

The following list was produced by InterAction, a coalition of more than 160 US-based private relief, development and refugee assistance agencies. InterAction members have agreed to abide by a set of standards to ensure accountability to donors, professional competence and quality…