Rapports

I. THE SITUATION IN MALUKU In the last eighteen months, several thousand people have died and hundreds of thousands have become refugees Estimates of the number killed vary, with 3000 accepted by most groups as the low end of the…

The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) announced today that a team from the Indonesian Attorney General's Office had arrived in Dili to investigate criminal cases related to the September 1999 post-referendum violence in East Timor. According to…

1. Context The conflict in the Malukus 1 , which erupted in January 1999, have to date caused a reported 3,000 lives and forced about 500,000 people to leave their homes, either within their resident island or to other islands…

Amid ongoing security problems in camps for East Timorese refugees in West Timor, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today began a two-day meeting with UN agencies and non-governmental organizations to review their assistance activities in the area. Speaking…

Surveillance The Provincial Health Department's Refugee Health Task Force, in cooperation with WHO epidemiological consultants, has released refugee morbidity and mortality data through week 27 of 2000. Epidemiological data were reported from TTS and Belu Districts by…

The East Timorese refugee camps in West Timor presented a political crisis needing immediate resolution by concerted action of the United Nations, the United States and the Indonesian Government, correspondents were told yesterday afternoon at a Headquarters press conference. The…

Dili, 14 July 2000 JAPANESE DONATION FOR REHABILITATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE Six project funding agreements worth US$27.5 million were signed today between the Government of Japan, UNTAET and the United Nations Development Programme. This is the largest contribution made so far for the…

by Jean-Philippe Chauzy, IOM Spokesperson West Timor Registration of East Timorese refugees in the main refugee camps around Kupang and in the border districts of West Timor has been cancelled because of serious security concerns. Over the last few days, IOM…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees today denounced the continuing violence in the East Timorese refugee camps and said the Indonesian government's failure to live up to its commitments may force UNHCR to review its operations in West…

Yesterday's Jakarta Post and Borneo Bulletin reported that President Abdurrahman Wahid had ordered the Ministry of Forestry and Estate Crops (MoFEC) to establish a task force to anticipate a recurrence of large-scale forest fires. The President's…