Rapports

IOM's land border repatriation operations remain suspended until September 5, the day after the various anniversaries surrounding last year's independence ballot in East Timor. Prospects for IOM repatriation convoys to East Timor resuming after that date look relatively bleak with…

(New York, August 19, 2000) Human Rights Watch charged today that irresponsible legislators in Indonesia are using human rights arguments to protect perpetrators of serious abuses. A constitutional amendment passed today by the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly makes it far…

AI Index ASA 21/033/2000, News Service Nr. 159 The new constitutional amendment on retroactivity does not absolve the authorities of bringing to justice those responsible for past human rights violations which constitute crimes under national and international law, Amnesty International said…

developed in conjunction with United Nations Resource Centre in Ambon David A. Bradt WHO\EHA--Indonesia I. PUBLIC HEALTH INDICATORS A. Population at Risk 1. Census Maluku Province total and IDP population estimates are presented in Table 1. Table 1 Total and IDP Population Estimates in…

ACT launches an Appeal for the victims of sectarian violence Some 4000 people died in 19 months of bloody sectarian fighting in the Indonesian Maluku islands. The victims were both Muslim and Christian. The conflict has created more than half a million…

From IOM PRESS BRIEFING NOTES by Niurka Piñeiro, IOM Spokesperson Apart from the sailing on Tuesday of the IOM-operated ship the Patricia Anne Hotung with 150 returnees on board, no return activities have taken place this week due to closure…

IP/00/933 Brussels, 17 August 2000 - The European Commission has granted €2 million in humanitarian aid for victims of May's and June's earthquakes in Sumatra, displaced persons from the Moluccas and East Timorese refugees in West Timor. Managed by the…

(August 17, 2000, New York) - Human Rights Watch today called on the Indonesian army to disband, once and for all, militias operating in West Timor. If it fails to do so, donor countries should reinstitute the ban on…

Security: Security continues to be a serious concern at the moment with reports of militia groups being sighted in several areas in Ainaro, CovaLima, Bobonaro and Ermera districts. On 10 August a PKF Nepalese platoon contacted militia elements South West…

CANBERRA, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Australia offered financial aid to Indonesia on Tuesday to help close refugee camps near the West Timor border around which militias responsible for killing two United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor operate. The Indonesian government…