Rapports

1- Surveillance Disease surveillance reporting through calendar week 43 has been forwarded by the Provincial Health Office. Data exist for weekly aggregate disease cases in the Belu District (see attached). Number of reporting locations and number of…

The United Nations team investigating human rights violations in East Timor has been interviewing eyewitnesses in the capital Dili, a UN spokesman in New York said today. The members of the international commission of inquiry have been meeting with eyewitnesses…

General: Although economic activity in Dili is increasing, widespread unemployment continues to jeopardise full recovery. Personal savings are dwindling, raising the possibility that impoverished populations may need shortly to divest their remaining assets. Humanitarian agencies report that real hardship exists…

"I'm going home? I'm going home? Am I really going home?" asks an excited teenager as she meets with the Tracing team of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Noelbaki camp for displaced people just…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Quoted text from this briefing note may be attributed to the UNHCR spokesperson named below Kris Janowski Timor On Monday,…

The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today met with Australian officials to discuss their country's participation in a number of administrative and security functions in the territory. Sergio Vieira de Mello told reporters in Sydney…

General: While the pace of returning refugees from East Timor continues, no marked increase has occurred since the 22 November agreement. In the first fatal casualty in INTERFET, a New Zealand soldier died in a road accident in Suai…

NEWS RELEASE SUGGESTED HEADLINE: IDP-DARWIN 31 - 99 By GySgt. Steve Nelson DARWIN, Australia - When tens of thousands of East Timorese were driven from their homes and villages by anti-independence militia, it was unknown when they would return or to what they…

SN / 208 EAST TIMOR General situation The rapid and systematic deployment of the multinational force (INTERFET) in East Timor has created the security conditions needed to allow the return to their homes of East Timorese who had taken refuge in the…