Bonn, Germany: The United Nations Volunteer (UNV) programme recently assisted in carrying out Timor-Leste's (formerly East Timor) first National Immunization Day (NID) campaign against polio. Read

BONN: For generations, the coastal communities in East Timor have relied on a wide range of fish - large tuna, flying fish, coral reef fish and deepwater snappers which abound along the 600 kilometres of East Timor's coastline - for their livelihoods. Ninety per cent of the East Timorese coastal fleet, fishing gear and on-shore infrastructure was destroyed during the violent fighting that broke out between opponents and supporters of independence after an overwhelming majority of East Timorese had voted for sovereignty in the UN-organized Popular Consultation Ballot held on 30 August 1999. Thousands of people fled the territory. Read

Bonn, Germany: East Timor has been the largest operation ever in the 31-year history of the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV). UN Volunteers were among the first international UN personnel to return to East Timor in October 1999, after weeks of violent fighting between opponents and supporters of independence. Read

Dili, Timor-Leste: On day two of the newly born Democratic Republic of East Timor and only 10 days before the beginning of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, the Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteer programme (UNV), Sharon Capeling-Alakija, officially handed over to the East Timorese Don Carlos Foundation the "Nobel de la Paz" football field, a UNV rehabilitation project. Read

Dili, East Timor: Some 200,000 East Timorese from all parts of the country were gathered at Taci Tolo site in the outskirts of Dili to witness independence celebrations, led by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and President Xanana Gusmao. Read

Dili, East Timor: During the past three years of transition towards independence for East Timor, the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) has built up its largest single presence ever. Some 3,000 UN Volunteers from more than 100 countries have supported the East Timor Public Administration, including electoral processes, and carried out a range of activities nationwide as part of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). No other UN operation has made such extensive use of UN Volunteers and their expertise. Read

Dare, East Timor: UN Volunteer district electoral officers (DEOs) and East Timorese colleagues opened 282 polling centres Sunday for East Timor's first-ever presidential elections. It was the third ballot in East Timor since 1999 that was organized with broad support from the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV). Read

Dili, East Timor: Seventy-five of the 150 district electoral officers (DEOs) recruited by the Bonn-based UN Volunteers programme (UNV) arrived in East Timor this week to prepare and conduct presidential elections scheduled for 14 April. Read

Dili, East Timor: Mr. Claudio Magno, a local staff member of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), is about to become the first East Timorese national to represent his newly forming nation in serving the United Nations as a UN Volunteer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Read

This is not an essay but a history. It is not a history about the "Timorization" of UNTAET reports. It is about REAL and DEEP Timorization. Read