(Deutsch) Indonesien als Lieferant für Nickel – Fakten und Hintergründe zu Menschenrechts- und Umweltauswirkungen (Factsheet)
(Deutsch) Es ist mehr als nur Nothilfe nötig
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Posted in Disasters, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Death toll skyrocketing – first foreign aid workers arrive in Aceh
30 December 2004
Update December 30th, 2004, 4 pm MET
According to latest BBC information, the confirmed death toll for Indonesia has skyrocketed to almost 80,000.
The Vice President calculated that the reconstruction costs would amount to 1 billion US Dollar. 150 million US Dollar were needed for immediate relief operations.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has suggested to the UN Secretary General that the United Nations host an aid conference for all states affected by the disaster. So far, apart from Kofi ... read more
Posted in Aceh, Disasters, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Environment & Climate
Situation in Aceh on December 29th, 2004, according to information provided by the environmental organisation WALHI
December 29, 2004
The telecommunication system in Aceh has been down over the last days. Since this afternoon it is once more possible to obtain news directly from Aceh by phone.
WALHI Aceh has lost its director, Mohammad Ibrahim. We are mourning his death.
Only one of the 34 WALHI groups in Aceh could be contacted so far (YBA, Yayasan Biduk Alam in East Aceh).
For two days now, an Indonesian team from the Civil Society Coalition for the Victims of the Earthquake ... read more
Posted in Disasters, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Environment & Climate
Civil emergency in Aceh ended
29 December 2004
Tsunami Catastrophe in Aceh – Update 29/12/04, 2 p.m. (MET)
Today, December 29th, 2004, the Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has revoked the status of civil emergency for Aceh. According to information of the Indonesian online news service Kompas Cyber Media (KCM), the Central Government also took over the government authority in the troubled province.
After the breakdown of the peace negotiations between the Central Government and the Free Aceh Movement in May 2003, martial law had been ... read more
Posted in Aceh, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications, Regional Conflicts
(Deutsch) Aceh akzeptiert Hilfe – aber die kommt nicht an
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(Deutsch) Friedenshoffnungen über Trümmern
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More than 27,000 dead and the death toll still rising – Tsunami in Indonesia
28 December 2004
by Alex Flor
The earth quake that struck on Sunday was the biggest of its kind during the last 40 years. Its epicentre was located 150 km off the South-western coastline of the Indonesian province of Aceh. The tidal wave which was triggered by the quake took the life of tens of thousands in the coastal regions of twelve Asian and African states.
The death toll is still rising by the hour. On Sunday, the day of the ... read more
Posted in Aceh, Indonesia, Information and Analysis, Publications
IFET letter to UNSG on justice
International Federation for East Timor (IFET) International Secretariat: Charles Scheiner P.O. Box 1182 White Plains, New York 10602 USA Tel. +1-914-831-1098 ifet@etan.org U.N. Representative: John M. Miller 48 Duffield St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA Tel. +1-718-596-7668 fax: +1-718-222-4097 john@etan.org www.etan.org/ifet
December 20, 2004
His Excellency Kofi Annan Secretary-General United Nations New York, NY 10017 By fax: +1-212-963-7055 Honorable Secretary General: We are writing to encourage you immediately to appoint a Commission of Experts ... read more
Posted in Joint Open Letters, East Timor, Publications, Transitional Justice
Controlling Timber Imports into the EU
14 December 2004
Joint NGO Statement
This statement outlines what we, the undersigned NGOs, believe must be done at EU level, as part of the EU process on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) to address the import of illegally sourced timber in the EU and the illegal practices of the EU timber industry. Although this statement focuses on illegal logging, we would like to state that legal and illegal logging are often closely linked and that legal ... read more
Posted in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Indonesia, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
(Deutsch) RAPP verübt Verbrechen gegen die Bewohner des Dorfes Koto Baru
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