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Press releases and statements
Quarter of refugee children in West Timor
malnourished
Tuesday, 18 January 2000: A survey by UNICEF in the Belu District of West
Timor has found that an estimated 25 per cent of refugee children under the
age of five are suffering from moderate to severe malnutrition.
Support for Timor urgently needed
Wednesday, 27 October 1999: UNICEF today urged the international community
to put its full weight behind ongoing relief efforts in East and West Timor,
where as many as 400,000 displaced people are facing worsening health conditions
from an early onset of monsoon season.
Major immunization drive begins in East Timor
Tuesday, 19 October 1999: The United Nations Children's Fund and partner agencies
today completed the first phase of a major immunization campaign aimed at
preventing an outbreak of measles and other life-threatening diseases in East
Timor.
UNICEF office opened in Atambua to
assist East Timorese refugees
6 October 1999: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has established
a Liaison Office in the border town of Atambua, West Timor, to bring emergency
assistance to thousands of East Timor refugees.
UNICEF urges government to create 'new
atmosphere' for West Timor relief effort
30 September 1999: The United Nations Children's Fund has called upon the
government of Indonesia to help create "a new atmosphere" in the province
of West Timor, where more than 200,000 refugees from the neighboring East
have been huddling in fear for almost a month.
UNICEF delivers new relief items to West Timor
Monday, 27 September 1999: Using two Hercules C-130 transport planes chartered
from the Indonesian Air Force, UNICEF delivered 28 tonnes of baby food, tents,
jerry cans and water tanks to Kupang, West Timor on Sunday 26 September.
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Carol
Bellamy on the violence in West Timor
Friday, 24 September 1999: UNICEF is very alarmed about the continued violence
and threats to East Timorese who have fled to West Timor and urges immediate
action to ensure safe access to the displaced populations by humanitarian
organisations.
UNICEF mounts Timor relief operations
Thursday, 16 September 1999: The grave situation in East and West Timor has
put hundreds of thousands of children and women in immediate peril. UNICEF
is presently responding to the refugee crisis in West Timor, and is now preparing
for a significantly expanded presence there, supported by a staging centre
in Darwin, Australia.
UNICEF condemns violence in East Timor
Tuesday, 7 September 1999: The indiscriminate targetting of civilian populations
in East Timor, in particular children and women, is an outrageous response
to the peoples' free choice for independence, UNICEF said today in a statement.
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