Reports

The situation EAST TIMOR Dili remains relatively calm. However INTERFET still classifies Dili as security level 3 (high risk where causalities are likely). Some militia have been sighted in town, often in the vicinity of military bases. A general surrender of weapons…

Press Release WHO/57 The World Health Organization's (WHO) operations will come to a standstill in Timor if no new money is found, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today. That would mean an effective end to public health coordination in…

Geneva, Friday 8 October 1999 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) airlifted 173 Timorese to East Timor today at the start of a program to return displaced people estimated to number 230,000 in squalid camps in West Timor. "Today,…

by USC staff in Indonesia and Canada Despite news reports over the past few days that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will begin to repatriate the refugees in West Timor to their homeland, USC continues to receive…

GA/9633 The important principle of national sovereignty must not be used as a curtain behind which human rights violations were carried out with impunity, the representative of Sweden said this afternoon as the General Assembly continued its consideration of the…

At a glance Airlift repatriation begins Ogata hails Friday's flights as an important first step Smooth reception for returnees in Dili WEST TIMOR UNHCR airlifted 173 Timorese to East Timor today at the start of a program to return displaced people estimated to number 230,000…

Darwin, 6 October 1999 Introduction The pillaging of East Timor by forces loyal to Jakarta in the wake of the 30 August popular vote for independence has left an utterly ravaged landscape and a displaced and traumatised population.…

Press Contact: Shanta Bryant, 202-667-8227 x127 NGO Contacts: James Bishop, Director of Humanitarian Response, 202-667-8227, x104 Stephen Hricik, Senior Program Associate, x106 The following InterAction member information is directly provided by each agency and is updated on a regular basis. Additional details of…

East Timor was devastated during the violence which followed free elections in which the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independent status. More violence, and possibly involuntary resettlement, threatens some 250,000 East Timorese who have fled to West Timor to…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) East Timor The UN World Food Program (WFP) confirms that a cargo ship carrying a significant amount of rice is due to arrive in Dili…