Reports

(Excerpt from:) 19 November 1996 Press Release GA/SHC/3395 MASSIVE REFUGEE FLOWS TO RWANDA WOULD NOT END REGION'S HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS NORWAY TELLS THIRD COMMITTEE Committee Continues Human Rights Discussion, Hears Introduction of Two Draft Texts on Human Rights Issues…

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is planning massive aid to help hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees reintegrate into their home communities. Even as Rwandan Red Cross and Federation workers are fulfilling the most urgent…

HR/96/67 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says 300 human rights monitors are needed in Rwanda throughout 1997 and has asked for $29.2 million to finance the expansion of what is already the largest United Nations human rights…

UNITED NATIONS Department of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@dha.unon.org IRIN Emergency Update No. 30 on Eastern Zaire (18-19 November 1996) United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali yesterday appealed for $259.3 million for urgently-required humanitarian assistance…

WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The United States has tentatively decided not to send troops to Zaire and will instead use U.S. military cargo planes to fly humanitarian aid to Rwanda, where thousands of refugees have returned from Zaire in recent…

HALF A MILLION REFUGEES CUT OFF FROM AID "A half million people are lost in the jungles of Zaire and we can't get help to them. How can anyone say that the international force is not needed? Another half million…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated November 18, 1996. Overview The Banyamulenge and the Banyarwanda people, who are Tutsi of Rwandan origin, settled in the…

(Concern remains about those who remain in Zaire) (810) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent GENEVA -- Refugees returning to Rwanda are being well received in their home communes and the United Nations has received no reports of arrests of returnees, says…

DAKAR, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has issued an appeal for 66.9 million dollars for its emergency operations for refugees and people displaced in eastern Zaire and the immediate integration of more than 500,000…

Movement from Zaire's Goma region slows to a trickle, some 500,000 are estimated to have returned to Rwanda. About 700,000 refugees remain in Zaire without assistance and UNHCR is concerned that if they go further into the interior it will…