Timor

Timor-Leste: UN Police, international security forces move to apprehend prison escapees

30 August 2006
United Nations Police and international security forces in Timor-Leste today mounted a widespread search for the dozens of prisoners who have escaped from Becora Prison, just east of the capital, Dili.

UN police project promotes road safety in Timor-Leste

29 August 2006
The newly established United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) kicked off its work this weekend with an initiative by UN police to raise awareness in the small nation about traffic rules and regulations.
Nana Effah-Apenteng

Security Council establishes expanded UN mission in Timor-Leste

25 August 2006
The Security Council today unanimously approved a resolution creating a new and expanded United Nations mission in Timor-Leste, citing ongoing threats to the stability of the South-East Asian country.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Timor-Leste: UN envoy urges renewed pledge to judiciary

23 August 2006
Two days before the mandate of the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) comes to an end, the Secretary General’s Special Representative to the Southeast Asian nation called for renewed commitment to the integrity of the country’s judicial system.

UN’s Timor-Leste mission extended briefly while Council mulls future options

18 August 2006
As the Security Council weighs requests from Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Government of Timor-Leste to create a new, expanded United Nations mission in the South-East Asian country, the 15-member body today briefly extended the current mission there.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Timor-Leste: UN Special Representative chairs election meeting

17 August 2006
As a first step toward helping Timor-Leste hold free and fair elections next year, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative in that country today convened a meeting of the major political parties to negotiate a new law that would govern those elections.
Ian Martin briefs the Security Council

Timor-Leste: UN envoy calls for an expanded mission

15 August 2006
Given the fragile security situation in Timor-Leste, the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to that country today called on the Security Council to establish a new, larger United Nations mission there.

Timor-Leste: UN commissioners probing violence earlier this year end visit

11 August 2006
The three officials serving on the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste today completed the first of two visits aimed at looking into the violence that exploded in the country earlier this year, causing dozens of deaths and forcing 15 per cent of the country’s entire population to flee their homes.

UNICEF works to help prevent malnutrition among youngest Timorese

4 August 2006
As Timor-Leste moves into its fourth month of emergency, humanitarian aid workers fear that malnutrition could spread, said the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which is working to ensure that the country’s youngest citizens receive adequate nutrition.

Timor-Leste: Annan calls for steps to ensure justice for 1999 rights violations

4 August 2006
Stressing that there can be no impunity for the serious human rights violations committed in Timor-Leste following its vote for independence in 1999, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended the establishment of a new United Nations programme of international assistance to help the country achieve justice and reconciliation.