Full Coverage: Emergency relief

31.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (OneWorld) - American private aid agencies are responding to the massive earthquake that hit Indonesia over the weekend. The magnitude 6.3 quake that struck southern Java in the early morning Saturday left over 5,000 dead, 20,000 injured, and 130,000 homeless.

30.05.2006 Indonesia's government declared a state of emergency late on thr night of 28 May 2006 after a quake killed more than 4,600 people early on 27 May. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the emergency period would last three months and the government aimed to complete "reconstruction and rehabilitation" within a year.

24.05.2006 At least 25 women, including six minor girls, of Lungthulien and Parbung villages of north-east India, were allegedly raped and molested by Manipuri underground groups in January this year. Malini Bhattacharya, member of the National Commision for Women (NCW) in charge of eastern India, had visited the villages on 10th and 11th May.

24.05.2006 The United Nations has launched a $300m (£159m) rebuilding plan to help tens of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by last October's devastating earthquake.

18.05.2006 Launching the Early Recovery Plan for Pakistan the United Nations Development Programmes, Resident Representative Jan Vandemoortele and Pakistans UN Ambassador Munir Akram sought $300 million from donor nations to rehabilitate the survivors of earthquake.

17.05.2006 The United Nations launched a year-long $300-million plan to begin rebuilding areas of northern Pakistan devastated by an earthquake seven months ago.More than 73,000 people died and about 3 million became homeless in the powerful quake that hit Pakistani Kashmir and adjoining North West Frontier Province on Oct. 8.

17.05.2006 The LTTE’s peace secretariat chief, S. Pulidevan, said yesterday that the spiraling violence in the country was worrying and that they were prepared for a resumption of the civil war.

10.05.2006 NEW YORK, May 9 (OneWorld) - After staying away for several weeks, humanitarian workers with a leading international charity organization are back to work in Indonesia's Aceh region, which was worst-hit by the devastating tsunami of December 2004.

09.05.2006 Seven months on from Pakistan's worst natural disaster, discontent is rumbling. Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was near the epicentre of the earthquake. Prodded by the government, most people have vacated the emergency tent camps set up for the homeless. But some 60,000 people remain.

09.05.2006 United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland was forced to curtail his visit to a camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur on Monday when an initially peaceful demonstration to show support for a planned deployment of a UN peacekeeping force turned rowdy.

08.05.2006 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has sent a team of investigators into refugee camps in west Africa following the revelation that large numbers of children have been sexually exploited by aid workers there.