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A year after East Timor gained its independence from Indonesia, over 100,000 Timorese refugees - 15 per cent of East Timor's population - still live in camps across the border. Some of the refugees want to return home but…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (USAID) BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) This will be the final USAID/OFDA Fact Sheet for the East Timor crisis. Past Fact Sheets can be obtained from the USAID…

By Terry Friel DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - An independent East Timor should ask foreign troops to stay on after the United Nations pulls out if Indonesia does not rein in violent militias, an East Timorese leader said Wednesday. Nobel peace…

OVERVIEW The Oxfam International Emergency Response Program in East Timor has been providing assistance to the Timorese people since October 1999. Community Aid Abroad-Oxfam Australia is the lead agency in the Oxfam program. The focus of the program is currently…

Extract from IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES 29 August 2000 by Jean Philippe Chauzy, IOM Spokesperson IOM condemns the Kefa incident and other attacks on humanitarian workers in West Timor and feels that UNHCR's temporary suspension of its activities in the camps…

Press Release SC/6915Council Briefed by Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping It was difficult to assess the objectives behind increased militia activity in East Timor, but its intent seemed to be to continue a pattern of violence against civilians…

By Terry Friel DILI, East Timor, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Indonesia's province of West Timor remains too dangerous for United Nations staff to resume aid to 100,000 East Timorese refugees languishing there in camps, U.N. officials said on Monday. Joseph Yeo,…

Surveillance The Provincial Health Department's Refugee Health Task Force, in cooperation with WHO epidemiological consultants, released refugee morbidity and mortality data through week 33 of 2000. Overall, 32 of 37 sentinel refugee sites submitted epidemiological data for 86% reporting compliance rate.…

UN Resource Centre Ambon - Maluku 1. Overall situation There has been a general improvement in the security situation in the last few weeks. More people are out in the streets and there is more commerce. The period has not…

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