• Timor-Leste achieved its independence from Indonesia in 2002, after the UN-supervised popular referendum in 1999. (interpeace.org)
  • Only located roughly 500 kilometres away from Australia's northern shores, Timor-Leste's independence, achieved in 2002, arises from a history of Portuguese colonisation that lasted more than 500 years. (youngausint.org.au)
  • Timor-Leste, a small, mountainous half-island nation which shares a land border with Indonesia and which is 550 km from Australia, has a population of 1.3 million and achieved independence for the second time in 2002. (nt.gov.au)
  • It is a young republic with a long and chaotic political history, having only achieved full independence in 2002, after almost 500 years of consecutive occupations by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and Indonesia. (royalcoffee.com)
  • However, Timor-Leste is unable have an independent umpire decide a maritime border with Australia because of a decision in March 2002 by Australian's then Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to pull Australia out of the compulsory jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals in relation to maritime boundary matters. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The country's recent history is full of stories of women who participated in the struggle for independence and contributed to nation-building after East Timor finally achieved independence in 2002. (anydayguide.com)
  • Timor-Leste's independence, achieved in 2002, coincided with the growing need for a UN success story after a series of failed missions in the 1990s. (newmandala.org)
  • When East Timor gained its independence in May 2002, after a 24-year struggle against Indonesian occupation, how to compensate those who fought was one of the first decisions the new government had to make. (newmandala.org)
  • On October 25th, the UN become the official interim governing authority, a role it played until independence was formally granted in May 2002. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) (October 1999 - May 2002) was a peacekeeping operation. (unmissions.org)
  • The United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) (May 2002 - May 2005), also a peacekeeping mission, was mandated to provide assistance to the newly independent East Timor until all operational responsibilities were fully devolved to the East Timor authorities, and to permit the new nation, now called Timor-Leste, to attain self-sufficiency. (unmissions.org)
  • Chris Barrett, Dili - When Timor-Leste was reborn as an independent nation in 2002, formalising its freedom from Indonesian occupation and, before that, Portuguese colonialism, boys and girls wrote down their aspirations for the new state on the back of postcards. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • In our pilot study of enteric pathogens and malnutrition in Dili, Timor-Leste (July 2019-October 2020), we recruited 60 infants in a birth cohort from Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares (HNGV) with up to four home visits. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the same time, in bi-lateral talks in Dili, Australia was refusing to negotiate a maritime boundary with Timor-Leste according to the principles set out in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The course of Timor-Leste history may have changed if a credible single voice for national unity had emerged from Dili. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • Warm Greetings from Dili, Timor-Leste! (etan.org)
  • A view of Ataúro Island from the hills above Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. (thediplomat.com)
  • Over the Easter weekend, as the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines was expected to arrive in Timor-Leste's capital of Dili, Tropical Cyclone Seroja arrived instead. (thediplomat.com)
  • A workshop of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Regional Forum (ARF) was concluded in Dili, Timor-Leste on April 26, 2019. (vifindia.org)
  • DILI, December 14th, 2021-Timor-Leste is celebrating an important cultural milestone. (timorleste.tl)
  • Magno, who hails from the southern town of Suai but lives in the capital, Dili, would like the next government to invest in Timor-Leste's agricultural sector to create new opportunities, and also to prioritise education. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • The epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic in the small, low-resource country of Timor-Leste, January 2020 - June 2022. (nt.gov.au)
  • The Role Played by the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) in the East Timorese Efforts to Achieve Independence Introduction East Timor (also called Timor-Leste in Portuguese) is a country in Southeast Asia. (bartleby.com)
  • No one in Kopassus has ever been disciplined for the unit's role in organizing nationalist militias to terrorize the East Timorese into voting against independence. (ips-dc.org)
  • Timor-Leste's coffee is small in overall scale but highly significant to the Timorese, 25% of whom rely on coffee production for their livelihood. (royalcoffee.com)
  • He is a survivor of the 1991 Santa Cruz massacre in Timor, which was a decisive turning point in the Timorese struggle for independence. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is indeed a good moment for all of us who were involved in the Timorese cause for many years, to commemorate it with a great joy along with our fellow Timorese in Timor-Leste and elsewhere. (etan.org)
  • Although we are not able to provide financial support for travel to Timor-Leste, we will try to make your stay here as comfortable, interesting and Timorese as possible. (etan.org)
  • Head Justice Phillip Rapoza of the hybrid special court on serious crimes consisting of UN appointed and Timorese judges then issued an arrest warrant for former Indonesian armed forces commander, General Wiranto, for war crimes committed immediately before and after East Timorese casted vote for independence. (acuns.tokyo)
  • National Women's Day is observed in East Timor on November 3 to commemorate the death anniversary of Maria Tapó, an East Timorese independence fighter and member of the FREITILIN party. (anydayguide.com)
  • For several days after flooding began, Timor-Leste Prime Minister ---Taur Matan Ruak did not call for humanitarian aid, with government sources speculating this stemmed from a deep sense of pride and a desire to prove Timorese strength in solving the nation's crisis on its own. (thediplomat.com)
  • The 20th anniversary of the popular consultation that brought independence for Timor-Leste has been a time to celebrate the courage, determination, and persistence of the Timorese people. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • In the last few years, generations of young Timorese have also begun openly questioning the strict, top-down leadership style cultivated by Gusmao as head of the resistance, which undermined the individual decision-making powers of Timorese youth during their involvement in the clandestine independence movement. (newmandala.org)
  • Perhaps the finest exploration of Bonaparte's life, and of the East Timorese women's movement during the 1970s, is Hannah Loney's essay, " The Target of a Double Exploitation: Gender and Nationalism in Portuguese Timor, 1974-75 ", published in 2015. (newmandala.org)
  • One, the Timorese Social Democratic Association (ASDT), took up the mantle of autonomy and independence. (newmandala.org)
  • The Timorese Popular Democratic Association, however, favoured integration with Indonesia, while the Timorese Democratic Union preferred continued relations with Lisbon. (newmandala.org)
  • On the hill above the town square sits the old Portuguese fort where the fighters of FALANTIL, the army of the East Timorese independence movement FRETILIN, had resisted the Indonesian invasion before retreating back into the jungle. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • I am writing from the perspective of an East Timorese to reflect the historical process by analyzing political development during the ten years of independence of Timor-Leste. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Therefore, it will be incumbent upon the East Timorese to view their history and their independence in the context of a sovereign state by involving all national entities in the development process without a preferential treatment within contemporary East Timorese politics. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) (June - October 1999) was mandated to organize and conduct a popular consultation to ascertain whether the East Timorese people accepted a special autonomy within Indonesia or rejected the proposed special autonomy, leading to East Timor's separation from Indonesia. (unmissions.org)
  • Approximately a quarter of the population lost their lives to violence and starvation as the Indonesian military waged war against Timorese guerilla forces fighting for independence. (somatosphere.net)
  • Parker Novak, a Timor-Leste analyst and non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, said the so-called generation of 1975 had retained political relevance because so much of Timorese identity was wrapped up in the resistance to Indonesian rule. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • In response to the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Timor-Leste Ministry of Health undertook surveillance and contact tracing activities on all notified COVID-19 cases. (nt.gov.au)
  • Furthermore, Indonesia's devastating invasion and occupation from 1975-1999 saw the death of an estimated 150,000 men, women and children-roughly equivalent to 20% of Timor-Leste's pre-invasion population. (youngausint.org.au)
  • During the period of 24 years of Indonesian occupation of East Timor from 1975 to 1999, approximately 100,000-180,000 soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed by the Indonesian National Armed Forces or starved to death. (acuns.tokyo)
  • After the political independence achieved through the popular consultation organized by the United Nations in August 1999, the United Nations established a serious crimes unit to carry out criminal investigations of Human Rights violations alleged to have been committed in East Timor by Indonesian and pro-Indonesian military forces during 1999. (acuns.tokyo)
  • One cannot ignore the importance of infrastructure in Timor-Leste - 80% of the basic infrastructure was destroyed by pro-Jakarta militias, with support of the Indonesian military, following the 1999 independence referendum. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • When Timor-Leste separated from Indonesia in 1999 and began the transition to independence, Gusmao became the darling of the United Nations, influential donor countries, and international foreign journalists in his role as president and later prime minister. (newmandala.org)
  • In a short amount of time," he said, "the people of [East Timor] have built a functioning economy and a vibrant democracy from the ashes and destruction of 1999. (newmandala.org)
  • These circumstances can be seen in the unsuccessful Portuguese decolonization process in 1975 and the popular consultation under UN-auspices in 1999 along with the two years of UN transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The establishment of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) was preceded by a number of other United Nations operations or missions deployed in Timor-Leste beginning in 1999. (unmissions.org)
  • Samantha Power's biography of the late head of the UN transition administration in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, tells how de Mello and other UN officials believed that the UN's success depended on building a strong relationship with Gusmao - a bond that continued though much of the UN's presence in the country. (newmandala.org)
  • Australia's reliance on these temporary resource sharing arrangements was recently confirmed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull when he rejected a request from the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Dr Rui de Araújo to commence negotiations to settle a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Australia's concession to Timor-Leste in the CMATS Treaty was additional revenue from the Greater Sunrise field, which in fact lies 100% on Timor-Leste's side of the median line. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The following is a lightly edited extract from barrister Bernard Collaery's new book, Oil Under Troubled Water - Australia's Timor Sea Intrigue , published by Melbourne University. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • East Timor (Timor-Leste) is an island country in Southeast Asia that shares the island of Timor with Indonesia. (anydayguide.com)
  • The youngest and poorest nation in Southeast Asia, Timor-Leste has been hailed as a success story for keeping the coronavirus at bay through tight border security and systematic contact tracing efforts. (thediplomat.com)
  • Timor-Leste is the eastern half of the island of Timor, which lies between Southeast Asia and the Pacific. (somatosphere.net)
  • Then Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer (right) and East Timor minister for foreign affairs and co-operation Dr Jose Ramos-Horta (left) sign the treaty on maritime arrangements in the Timor Sea, as Australian prime minister John Howard and East Timor prime minister Mari Alkatiri look on in January 2006 in Sydney. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • According to Jose Ramos Horta, "The problem with the Portuguese position was that it never considered internationalizing the problem, even when it was clear at the London meeting that Indonesia would stop at nothing to bring about the integration of East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • That massive bloodletting was followed by a reign of terror against separatist groups in Aceh and West Papua and the invasion of East Timor. (ips-dc.org)
  • It kidnapped and murdered students in 1997 and 1998, made up the shock troops for the Indonesia's invasion of East Timor, and ruthlessly suppressed any moves toward independence in West Papua. (ips-dc.org)
  • West Papua is the western half of New Guinea that Indonesia invaded in 1969. (ips-dc.org)
  • Prabowo, who received significant training and support from the United States government, has been implicated in mass killings in Indonesia, East Timor and West Papua during the 1980s and 1990s. (counterpunch.org)
  • And given the sordid history of resource extraction in West Papua, what role will the project play in the bitter struggle for Papua's freedom from Indonesia? (newint.org)
  • It is understandable that Benny Wenda the leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) is calling on West Papuans not to celebrate Indonesia's Independence Day on 17 August given th e crimes committed against the people by the very brutal and corrupt Indonesian military (TNI). (aetfa.org.au)
  • and ushered in the 33 year-long fascist Suharto dictatorship.which led to greater suffering for the peoples of West Papua Indonesia, East Timor and Acheh. (aetfa.org.au)
  • We defend the right of all nations, big or small, to have their sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity fully respected. (mfa.gov.sg)
  • On 22-23 May 2017, the Timor-Leste hosted the landmark Global Conference on the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda in partnership with the informal High-Level Support Group for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the g7+ Secretariat to pursue A Roadmap for SDGs in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States. (youngausint.org.au)
  • International NGOs, such as the United Nations, have fostered the innovative creation and diversification of sustainable opportunities in Timor-Leste, especially targeted towards its youth. (youngausint.org.au)
  • Many also believe that the accession of Timor-Leste to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will open the gates to the thriving ASEAN Community valued at approximately US$1.5 trillion dollars. (youngausint.org.au)
  • While many of the world's nations have been around for centuries, some have formed in just the past two decades, as country states declared independence and developed their own national borders. (worldatlas.com)
  • At the ASEAN Regional Forum workshop held on preventive diplomacy on 29-30 November 2018 in Nanjing, China, Professor Hasegawa who was Special Representative of United Nations Secretary-General for Timor-Leste from 2004 to 2006 shared with the participants lessons he had learned from successful preventive diplomacy conducted by Timor-Leste leaders with Indonesia and Australia. (acuns.tokyo)
  • While the prevention of future crimes was not considered of prime importance in determining the extent of punishments, the United Nations regarded the application of retributive justice critical in reducing the prospect for future crimes of serious nature and increasing the prospect for achieving sustainable peace. (acuns.tokyo)
  • Timor-Leste remains subject to the whim of wealthier nations, reliant on them curbing their carbon emissions and distributing COVID-19 vaccines. (thediplomat.com)
  • Macau, Timor-Leste, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe are the other nations where the European country's presence has also left its mark on literature. (fapesp.br)
  • This could be seen in the decolonization process in which the Portuguese government did not involve the United Nations and internationalize the issues of East Timor. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste completed its mandate on 31 December 2012. (unmissions.org)
  • Once the peacekeeping mission withdrew, a new political mission, the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) (May 2005-August 2006), supported the development of critical State institutions and the police and provided training in observance of democratic governance and human rights. (unmissions.org)
  • However, a series of events in Timor-Leste culminating in April-June in a political, humanitarian and security crisis of major dimensions led the Council to prolong UNOTIL's mandate, ultimately to 20 August 2006, and to request the Secretary-General to present new recommendations taking into account the need for a strengthened United Nations presence. (unmissions.org)
  • On 11 June 2006, the President of Timor-Leste, the President of the National Parliament and the Prime Minister wrote to the Secretary-General requesting that he propose to the Security Council to establish a United Nations police force in Timor-Leste to maintain law and order until the national police could undergo reorganization and restructuring. (unmissions.org)
  • The crisis in Timor-Leste reveals something much deeper about the global inequalities the pandemic has created, raising questions about whether we have truly built back "better" at all. (thediplomat.com)
  • Inequality, driven by climate change and the pandemic as recent events in Timor-Leste have shown, may only worsen as mass travel begins to return. (thediplomat.com)
  • Working with Kopassus, which remains unrepentant about its long history of terrorizing civilians, will undermine efforts to achieve justice and accountability for human rights violations in Indonesia and Timor-Leste [formally East Timor]," says John M. Miller, national coordinator of East Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN). (ips-dc.org)
  • The MIHARI Network has announced it is undertaking the final steps in formally establishing its legal independence, allowing the network to further it's representative power as the voice of coastal communities across Madagascar. (blueventures.org)
  • Memo rests in the mountainous regions of one of the most cash-poor areas of Timor-Leste. (unwomen.org)
  • In 1970, when Australia began negotiations in earnest with Indonesia over maritime boundary delimitations in the Arafura and Timor seas, Australia knew enough about the petroleum potential of the Timor Sea adjoining Portuguese Timor to review the economic assumption underpinning the earlier cabinet appreciation that an independent Timor-Leste would not be economically viable. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • Thereafter, successive Australian governments sought to exert influence over Portuguese Timor and its seabed resources. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • In 1971 and 1972, Australia and Indonesia signed treaties with respect to the Australia/Indonesia interface in the Arafura and Timor seas, leaving what was to become the infamous "Timor Gap" at the Australia/Portuguese Timor interface. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • After centuries of brutal occupation under both Portuguese and Indonesian colonial rule, a hard-won fight for independence, and an interim period in which the U.N. governed the new country and chose its political path, Timor-Leste is eager to assert its independence on the global stage. (thediplomat.com)
  • At the time East Timor had been under Portuguese colonisation since the beginning of the 18th century. (newmandala.org)
  • For over three decade, Balibo has been the focus of debate and recrimination, arising from the murder of five young journalists there in October 1975, by forces led by the Indonesian army, illegally invading what was then the sovereign territory of Portuguese Timor (Jolliffe 2009). (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • It sits on the site of a former Portuguese colonial barracks, which became a school in the brutal Indonesia occupation that followed (1975-99). (somatosphere.net)
  • Two years later in 2006, Australia and Timor-Leste signed the Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea treaty (CMATS) that Mr Grenville enthusiastically defends. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • Uncertainty after the 1972 OPEC crisis heralded a new foreign policy imperative that brought the potential petroleum resources of the Australian Continental Shelf under the Timor Sea to the surface in Canberra. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • Abstract In Timor-Leste, a national adult literacy campaign, supported by a small team of Cuban advisers, was launched in 2007, in the wake of a political crisis which threatened to de-stabilise the world s newest independent country. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • in contrast, national development itself cannot be viewed only from the historical perspectives, either because of strong historical preferences, the current political environment is dominated by a romanticism of independence, which might lead people into a crisis of nationalism in the sense of losing state-ownership. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • My research explores how life in Timor-Leste is being rebuilt and reproduced after periods of conflict and crisis. (somatosphere.net)
  • According to ETAN, Kopassus-sometimes called Unit 81-helped organize the murder of five Australian journalists in Balibo on the eve of Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor. (ips-dc.org)
  • The aim is that these Peace Houses will bring people together to solve disputes and conflicts in a peaceful manner and serve as a model for conflict resolution throughout Timor-Leste. (interpeace.org)
  • Violence has often been the channel for conflict resolution since Timor-Leste's independence. (interpeace.org)
  • As Asia's youngest nation, Timor-Leste also has a disproportionately high youth population-known as "youth bulge"-a result of the seismic demographic shift caused by conflict since the mid-1970s. (youngausint.org.au)
  • According to Hasegawa, there are three valuable lessons learned from successful preventive diplomacy carried out by Timor-Leste leaders in their quest for post-conflict reconciliation and peace with Indonesia and maritime boundary negotiations with Australia 2018. (acuns.tokyo)
  • Tapó is considered the first female combatant to die in the conflict between Indonesia and East Timor. (anydayguide.com)
  • After undergoing a training of trainers course on Gender and Conflict Prevention, taught by a local civil society organization Casimira decided to train other women in starting their own groups to promote independence and income generation. (unwomen.org)
  • This paper, drawing on findings from in-country fieldwork funded by an ARC Linkage grant, outlines the achievements of the campaign, and assesses the contribution which adult literacy makes to post-conflict peacebuilding and the achievement of post-colonial independence. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • It was during these negotiations that Foreign Minister Downer allegedly authorised Australian spies to secretly record the Timor-Leste negotiating team. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The Australian Institute is organising this event with former President of Timor-Leste and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, José Ramos-Horta, and barrister and former ACT Attorney-General Bernard Collaery for a discussion of Timor Sea oil scandals, alleged spying and the prosecution of Bernard and Witness K. (aetfa.org.au)
  • Between 1945 - 1949, the Australian union movement put black bans on a Dutch fleet of about 170 vessels that had gathered in Australia to take on soldiers, armaments and provisions intended for Indonesia to smash the independence movement. (aetfa.org.au)
  • This solidarity by Australian workers was crucial in Indonesia attaining its independence. (aetfa.org.au)
  • The prosecution of Bernard Collaery and Witness K - the two Australian men who assisted Timor- Leste to achieve a maritime border and greater access to its resources in the Timor Sea continues. (aetfa.org.au)
  • In the week in which this paper is being written, the Australian media is once again full of stories about Timor-Leste, because a new feature film, Balibo, has been released, telling the story of the first days of the Indonesian invasion in 1975. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Independence hero Gusmao has had his 20-year-old Australian-raised son Kay Olo, who is something of a TikTok star, with him on stage at campaign events. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • In addition to Nairn's recent and ongoing work in Indonesia, he is a lifelong activist and investigative journalist who has played important roles in grassroots solidarity efforts with the peoples of Guatemala, Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), Indonesia, and elsewhere. (counterpunch.org)
  • Instead, Timor-Leste was not included in the General Assembly's call upon all governments, specialised agencies and institutions associated with the UN to render to the peoples of four other of Portugal's overseas territories all moral and material assistance for the achievement of their national independence and the reconstruction of their countries. (canberratimes.com.au)
  • She died in 1975 alongside her partner Siga Mau while defending her home village against Indonesian soldiers shortly before the full-scale Indonesian invasion of East Timor. (anydayguide.com)
  • Moreover, the current political constellation of Timor-Leste is still dominated by the 1975 generation who had played major roles during the struggle for independence. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • The Policy Practice undertook the first independent review of DFAT's Timor-Leste Governance for Development Program. (thepolicypractice.com)
  • With the inauguration of Timor-Leste's new President Francisco 'Lo Ulo' Guterres, which coincided on the 20 May 2017, the past month has offered a snapshot of Timor-Leste's journey away from being a fragile state. (youngausint.org.au)
  • Wednesday, 14 September marks the inauguration of a new "Peace House" in Baucau, Timor-Leste. (interpeace.org)
  • The island's inland forests also happen to be historically significant, being the origin of coffee's most adaptive genetic cross-the Timor Hybrid-a natural breeding of local robusta and typica trees that was identified in the 1920s, and whose vigorous genetics can be found in countless timor- based cultivars in almost every producing country today. (royalcoffee.com)
  • Birgit Hermann (country director) and Oldegar 'Ollie' Massinga (operations manager) who head up the Blue Ventures team in Timor-Leste, reflect on five years of working with communities to drive locally led marine conservation in the country. (blueventures.org)
  • By the end of August 2009, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste will take a moment to reflect on the historical process by visualizing the future of the country. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Within the era of independence, the political leaders of this new independent country in Asia seem unable to abandon a bitter historical heritage. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Sisto dos Santos on behalf of the organizing Committee, which includes dozens of activists from Timor-Leste and around the world. (etan.org)
  • The film is named after a tiny town in the westernmost district of Bobonaro, perched high on the plateau above the northern coast of the island of Timor, a few kilometres from the border with Indonesia. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • Factors such as climate change devastate more than half of the country's livelihoods, resulting in volatile conditions where generating employment and sustainable opportunities for the next generation of Timor-Leste's leaders remains one of the biggest challenges to future prosperity and national security. (youngausint.org.au)
  • The key to generating sustainable opportunities for Timor-Leste's next generation is undoubtedly linked to the diversification of its economy, in which oil revenues comprise over 90% of government revenue. (youngausint.org.au)
  • Two decades after gaining independence, Timor-Leste needs a long-term strategy for sustainable economic development. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • The contribution of migrants to the development of Asia-Pacific countries is fundamental, and their role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be underestimated. (iom.int)
  • Following East Timor's independence, 25 women were elected as members of the parliament , representing 38% of the legislative body. (anydayguide.com)
  • In a series of recent posts on The Interpreter ( here , here and here ), Stephen Grenville has suggested that if Australia agreed to enter into maritime boundary negotiations with Timor-Leste and, if necessary, allow an international umpire to determine a maritime boundary in the Timor Sea, Timor-Leste would somehow be worse off. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • South Sudan, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and East Timor became independent states in this century. (worldatlas.com)
  • Serbia claimed the declaration of independence was illegal, but European powers and the United States, among with several other global powers like Canada and Japan, recognized the independent state of Kosovo. (worldatlas.com)
  • Unlike Australia, Timor-Leste is prepared to have this assertion tested in an international court or tribunal and allow an independent umpire to decide where the maritime boundaries should lie. (lowyinstitute.org)
  • For many years, the Campaign for an Independent East Timor SA (CIET SA) - the forerunner of AETFA SA - held pickets outside the Indonesian Consul's office in Adelaide on this day to give this message to the Indonesian leaders. (aetfa.org.au)
  • As the new generation graduates to voting age, Timor-Leste's celebrated political elites are still the centre of attention. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • So, leaders of ASEAN and India have had to painstakingly build these relations post-independence. (vifindia.org)
  • National Women's Day is a public holiday in East Timor celebrated annually on November 3. (anydayguide.com)
  • He was elected by Timor-Leste's National Parliament as the first Commissioner of the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (2010-14) where he led a staff of 50 and achieved excellent results. (thepolicypractice.com)
  • Aderito has consulted for national and international NGOs, private companies as well as the UN system in Timor-Leste. (thepolicypractice.com)
  • Local NGO Timor Aid has been working with Tais weavers for more than two decades, and the organization was represented on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage committee. (timorleste.tl)
  • Their vision for Timor-Leste was to be a democratic nation with better living conditions and opportunities, especially for young people," said Joalita Teresa Magno, a 21-year-old student at the National University Timor Lorosa'e. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Decision-making is to be guided by the principles of quality, impact and inclusiveness in order to achieve the strategy goals that cut across national, regional and global levels, and across all parts of WHO. (who.int)
  • Despite these recent developments, however, there remains scepticism around whether Timor-Leste can effectively tackle the challenges that loom over the nation today and in the coming years-namely, harnessing its demographic youth bulge and diversifying the economy. (youngausint.org.au)
  • Its modern history is tumultuous: shortly after East Timor declared its independence from Portugal, it was invaded and occupied by Indonesia and remained under its control for 14 years. (anydayguide.com)
  • The holiday was officially established in 2005, three years after East Timor finally regained its independence. (anydayguide.com)
  • In the early independence years Xanana Gusmao commanded full respect from young and old. (newmandala.org)
  • It is now ten years since we have restored our independence but the leaders have forgotten the contribution and values [that women brought to the independence struggle]," Araujo began . (newmandala.org)
  • This means that people might view independence merely as the era of claiming the rights which they had lost during 24 years of colonial occupation and expect independence to compensate their meritorious struggle. (easttimorlawandjusticebulletin.com)
  • Prior to this, he was a lawyer for human rights NGOs in Indonesia, including the Institute for Police Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) in Jakarta. (thepolicypractice.com)
  • The cyclone brought a humanitarian disaster that could not have come at a worse moment for Timor-Leste. (thediplomat.com)
  • Introduction August 30th, 2009, marked the tenth anniversary of the historic UN-supervised referendum in Timor-Leste, in which 97% of the population voted, and an overwhelming majority (78.5%) rejected the offer of becoming an autonomous province within the Republic of Indonesia. (osttimorkommitten.se)
  • The hospital in Maubisse is one of Timor-Leste's five regional referral hospitals. (somatosphere.net)
  • At the ASEAN Regional Forum held in Nanjing, China, GPAJ President explained that the UN had pursued retributive justice while Timor-Leste preferred restorative justice and reconciliation and friendship following establishment of truth. (acuns.tokyo)
  • For the other countries, the date given may not represent "independence" in the strict sense, but rather some significant nationhood event such as the traditional founding date or the date of unification, federation, confederation, establishment, fundamental change in the form of government, or state succession. (cia.gov)
  • As foreign media recasts Timor-Leste's Xanana Gusmao from darling of democracy to potential despot, it's time to re-examine the myth surrounding the 'poet' politician, write Angie Bexley and Maj Nygaard-Christensen. (newmandala.org)
  • Learning from the past and building on our experiences, we also will explore how we can work with Timor-Leste's people to address the challenges facing this ten-year-old nation, trying to overcome a legacy of trauma, repression, colonialism, poverty, impunity and underdevelopment in an increasingly interdependent world. (etan.org)
  • However, on 17 August, we should remind the Indonesian authorities that it was many courageous and progressive Indonesians who struggled to obtain their nation's independence along with many other people world wide who worked in solidarity with them. (aetfa.org.au)
  • Many assisted members of the Indonesian independence movement who were preparing the people for independence after the war. (aetfa.org.au)
  • The CPC has led the Chinese people in exploring how to achieve the country's modernisation since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. (socialistchina.org)
  • We really appreciate the contribution of the American people in achieving the UNESCO nomination," said the Secretary of State for Art and Culture of Timor-Leste, Teofilo Caldas. (timorleste.tl)
  • For the first time on Sunday, people born after the restoration of independence will be old enough to vote in a parliamentary election. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Since the use of force against territorial integrity or political independence is illegal, the question as to whether title or sovereignty can be transferred in such a situation has been the subject of legal debate. (wikipedia.org)
  • The organization was formed in close collaboration with Peace Winds Japan, a Japanese NGO that had been working in Timor-Leste's coffee lands during the first decade after independence, when violence and crumbled infrastructure had disenfranchised many remote coffee communities. (royalcoffee.com)
  • They are troubled by both the legacy of colonial violence and oppression, and unmet promises of progress in the independence era. (somatosphere.net)
  • Internationally however, this understanding served to escalate external debates about good and bad leaders in Timor-Leste. (newmandala.org)
  • For most countries, this entry gives the date that sovereignty was achieved and from which nation, empire, or trusteeship. (cia.gov)
  • Au cours de ces trois dernières années, mon pays, représenté dans les instances exécutives de l'OMS et du Fonds mondial de lutte contre le VIH/sida, le paludisme et la tuberculose, a fait de son mieux pour contribuer efficacement aux travaux de ces organes et aux efforts de plaidoyer qu'impliquait cette fonction notamment pour la mobilisation de ressources financières en faveur de la lutte contre les trois maladies. (who.int)
  • Timor-Leste, or East Timor, takes up the eastern half of the greater Timor island, part of the Indonesian archipelago and not far from the northern coast of Australia. (royalcoffee.com)
  • The greater Timor island is sun-baked and humid along its coast, but the interior quickly rises to lush and rugged highlands, with sharp ridges and vibrant grass-covered slopes. (royalcoffee.com)
  • Alone among these islands, the middling-sized island of Timor stands out as a land of two masters. (johnmilsom.online)
  • It was around this time Serbia's sister region, Montenegro, called for the independence of the two from Yugoslavia. (worldatlas.com)
  • While undeniably true, Bonaparte also best embodies the problems faced by female participants in the independence struggle-first against Portugal, then Indonesia-for the simple reason that she knew sectarian issues (namely women's emancipation) were at the same time hindering and intrinsic to the struggle. (newmandala.org)
  • He intends to spend more time in Timor-Leste and party officials already have designs on him going into politics one day. (asia-pacific-solidarity.net)
  • Based on the broth-based microdilution test, resistance to antimicrobials in the Timor-Leste Antimicrobial Guidelines for humans were low, except for resistance to ciprofloxacin in Salmonella spp. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although this study shows that antimicrobial resistance in chickens was generally low in Timor-Leste, there should be ongoing monitoring in commercial chickens as industry growth might be accompanied with increased antimicrobial use. (bvsalud.org)
  • The words 'charismatic' and 'poet' were de rigueur in any foreign news coverage of the former leader of Timor-Leste's armed resistance against Indonesia. (newmandala.org)
  • This relationship remains understudied in Timor-Leste. (bvsalud.org)