Families of Missing Persons and Victims of War

For over three years, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has organized extensive programs aimed at working with the families of those killed or missing and identifying bodies exhumed from mass graves in Bosnia (see www.phrusa.org for details). When Kosovo presented similar issues, PHR was in a unique position to assist.

GA/9687
Text on Central America also Approved; UN Self-Examination Welcomed as Debate Begins on Situation in Bosnia and Herzergovina

The General Assembly this afternoon adopted resolutions calling for special economic assistance to individual countries or regions, assistance to the Palestinian people, enhanced cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), procedures to establish a firm and lasting peace in Central America and general and complete disarmament on the issue of small arms.

Kosovo

Kosovo is a province lying in the south of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). Before the conflict there were roughly 2 million people living in Kosovo. The country has historical

PROCESS FOR CERTAIN COUNTRIES OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPE CARA PROGRAMME

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AND RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE

Guidelines and detailed arrangements for assistance to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the future CARA programme. 2000 - 2006

"We've got a problem because a large number of the refugees want to stay in the camp," said Goran Momirovski, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), adding that many are determined to be transferred to other countries.

Around 1,250 refugees from Kosovo, mostly ethnic Albanian, are still living in Stenkovec II, the only camp created

Reports: Human Rights in Kosovo: As Seen, As Told

Part I - October 1998 to June 1999

Part II - 14 June 1999 to 31 October 1999

BACKGROUND

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has produced two human rights reports that extensively document the human rights violations in Kosovo reported by OSCE field officers.

BELGRADE, Dec 3 (AFP) - Troubles in Kosovo risk spilling over into southern Serbia and Macedonia, a former Yugoslav army chief of staff warned in an interview with Agence France-Presse.

General Momcilo Perisic, who was fired by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in November 1998 and has since joined the opposition, was commenting on a recent flare-up on Kosovo's border with Serbia.

"There is a great danger of the Kosovo problem spilling over into southern Serbia and even more so into Macedonia," Perisic said.

Timor

The repatriation program in East Timor has reached a critical stage that has resulted in a sharp drop in the number of returnees. Preliminary figures indicate only around 250 people joined the UNHCR-IOM convoys across three repatriation corridors to East Timor today - the lowest number of returnees since we began repatriation on October 8.

Education

• UNICEF has compiled unofficial estimates of the numbers of children attending school: 257,416 Albanian Kosovars and 10,219 non-Albanian Kosovars
• Some 74,100 school kits have been distributed, out of a total of 150,000. Over half of the first order of 90,000 chairs, desks and blackboards have been distributed to schools.
• Tents continue to be erected throughout