OCHA Situation Report
Timor-Leste
12 July - 1 August 2008


Source:
UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

The Humanitarian Update (HU) aims at providing a periodic analysis of 
current humanitarian issues, facts and policy developments in Timor-Leste 
with primary attention given to internally displaced people (IDPs). The HU 
is based on voluntary information inputs from UN Agencies, Funds and 
Programmes, NGO members of the Humanitarian Coordination Committee and 
other partners. It analyses information from a variety of sector 
coordination meetings involving Timorese authorities. The HU is 
coordinated and issued by the OCHA/UNMIT Integrated Humanitarian 
Coordination Team (IHCT), on a fortnightly basis. Contributions and 
comments can be sent to the OCHA/UMMIT IHCT in Dili, Focal Points: 
medhurst@un.org (mobile: +670 736 55 78) and hadin@un.org, (mobile +670 
731 16 43). OF NOTE

- Petitioners: The Petitioners received US$ 8000 each and all have now 
left Aitarak Laren camp and returned to the Western Districts or Dili.

- Report of the Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF): On 15 July, the 
CTF report was received by the Presidents of Indonesia and Timor-Leste in 
Bali. The report was tasked with finding the institutions responsible for 
the abuses committed during Timor-Leste's struggle for Independence in 
1999.

- International Day of Peace: On 29 July, media agencies in Timor-Leste 
participated in a joint press conference to raise awareness of the 100 Day 
Peace Campaign which will end on 21 September, the International Day of 
Peace. This year will commemorate the 60 year anniversary of the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights. The International Day of Peace was 
established in 1981 by the United Nations as an annual observance of 
global non-violence and ceasefire.

- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: On 28 July, Judge Navanethem 
Pillay of South Africa was appointed the new High Commissioner for Human 
Rights replacing Louise Arbour of Canada (whose five year term finished on 
the 30 June). Since 2003, Ms. Pillay has served as Judge on the 
International Criminal Court (ICC), based in The Hague, Netherlands.

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