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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 UNHCR is…

Berger stresses U.S. concern over West Timor The President's National Security Advisor, Samuel R. Berger, met with Jose Alexandre Gusmao (Xanana), the President of the National Council for the Timorese Resistance, at the White House September 30 to discuss the humanitarian…

Baltimore, October 1, 1999--A Protestant church in West Timor, Indonesia, has been extremely active in finding safe haven for East Timorese refugees. Refugee camps there are still vulnerable to attacks by the militia that have ravaged East Timor in…

AT A GLANCE Returns to Dili pick up Returnees search for relatives Destruction of property in East Timor continues UN mission reaches Atambua, West Timor EAST TIMOR UNHCR staff in East Timor's capital on Thursday estimated that 70,000 residents have returned to the city…

News Service: 184/99 AI INDEX: ASA 21/176/99 MEDIA ADVISORY Amnesty International has today sent a Letter to UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, recommending certain criteria to ensure a thorough, independent and effective inquiry into serious human rights violations committed in East Timor in the…

The Indonesian Government must ensure that the international humanitarian community has full and secure access to refugees and displaced people, according to Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Julia Taft. "Access to (refugee) camps by international organizations and…

Resolution of the situation in East Timor must be a top priority for the international community, including governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international organizations, according to Harold Hongju Koh, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor. In September…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: New information is underlined. Overview Following an overwhelming UN-supported vote for independence from Indonesia, pro-integrationist militias in East Timor rampaged and plundered through several cities…

Julia V. Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Population, Refugees, and MigrationTestimony, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights House International Relations Committee, Washington, DC, September 30, 1999 Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am particularly honored and pleased…

The remains of 10 East Timorese were discovered in the back of a pickup yesterday. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DILI, EAST TIMOR - As evidence mounts of grievous human-rights abuses in East Timor, it is…