Reports

The immediate increase in MSF activity in East Timor has been with the use of mobile clinics to visit areas with limited security and MSF planned involvement in the health care of refugees who are a part of the…

AT A GLANCE More towns in East Timor found still abandoned Plans continue for airlift return to East Timor UNHCR sends letter protesting West Timor registration EAST TIMOR Aid workers travelled today, Wednesday, 45 kms west from Dili to Liquisa where they found thousands…

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International would like to share with the committee some assessment of the dangers East Timor faces as it moves toward independence in accordance with the results of the 30 August 1999 referendum. These dangers…

KUPANG -- The United Nations World Food Programme announced today that it will begin distributing emergency food rations to 142,000 displaced people in West Timor under an agreement reached with the Indonesian Government. WFP will supply both rice and high-energy biscuits…

GA/SPD/159 The colonized people of Guam would vote on its status by 4 July 2000, a representative of that Territory’s Governor told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) this afternoon, as the Committee continued consideration of…

September 1999RBM/Complex Emergencies Network East Timor West Timor Basic indicators Total population (1998) 875,989 1,452,153 IMR (1997) 70 54 CDR (1996) 99 82 Iron deficiency anaemia (1992) 48.0 (pregnant women) 40.7 (under fives) 59.7 (pregnant women) 63.4 (under fives) Plasmodium species 60-80% P.falciparum, remainder P.vivax and very sporadic P.ovale Malaria cases detected (1998) 10,332 confirmed malaria cases…

Community Aid Abroad Oxfam Australia is urging the multi- national INTERFET force to immediately establish security in the East Timorese enclave of Ambeno, (sometimes known as Okussi), in West Timor. Community Aid Abroad's Executive Director, Jeremy Hobbs said, "We have evidence…

(prepared by the East Timor representative a.i. of the Humanitarian Coordinator) Dili, East Timor General Situation: In a major inter-agency coordinated exercise, 12, 874 sacks of rice were provided today during a general distribution to heads of families in Dili. More…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: Previous Fact Sheets in the month of October will be renumbered for the new fiscal year. East Timor A large-scale inter-agency ood distribution took place…