Progressio -
East Timor: women of faith join together in solidarity
(March 21)
JSMP:
The Participation of Women in the Justice System of Timor Leste
(March 6)
JSMP:
The Law of Gender-Based Violence in Timor-Leste April – November 2005
Internews:
Training for Timorese Women Journalists Aims to Expand Women’s Civic Role
(February 3)
Rape a Weapon of
War in Timor Occupation (January 30)
Final Report of the Commission for
Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR) chapter on
Sexual
Violence; chapter
Graphs;
Full Report
2005
Progressio:
Independent women: The story of women’s activism in East Timor,* by
Irena Cristalis and Catherine Scott (PDF e-book) (2005)
The Fight Against Domestic Violence In East Timor: Forgetting The
Perpetrators by Hanne Hovde Bye
(Masters Thesis)* (December)
From Development Studies
Network - December 2005*
UN:
Gender Mainstreaming in Peacekeeping Progress Report
(November)
UNIFEM and ADB:
Gender and Nation Building in Timor-Leste*
JSMP:
The Participation of Women in the Justice System of Timor Leste
(Nov 3)
Women in East Timor conference* (September)
Women's Day 2005
- East Timor (March)
Timor-Leste Statement to Commission on the Status
of Women 2005
(March 7)
AP:
Justice
campaign launched for "comfort women" (Feb 27)
JSMP:
Report "Statistics on Cases of Violence Against Women in Timor Leste" (February)
JSMP:
Report examines police treatment of women in Timor Leste*
(January)
2004
Alola:
Trafficking in East Timor: A Look into the Newest Nation’s Sex Industry
UN:
Judicial reform needed for women in post-conflict areas
The involvement
of men in solving gender issues in Timor Lorosa'e*
UN:
Day-long Security Council debate on issue of Women, Peace, Security;
Problems of oppression, exploitation stressed (Oct 28)
UNIFEM:
Peace Needs Women and Women Need Justice:
Conference on Gender Justice in
Post-Conflict Situations* (September)
Women Are Vital To Resolving Armed Conflicts And Rebuilding Peace*
(Sept 17)
Gender Assessment for USAID/Timor-Leste Country Strategy Plan FY
2004-2009* (August)
CIIR:
Second All East Timorese Women's National Congress*
(August 10)
JSMP Report: Access to Justice for Women Victims
[English,
Bahasa]* (July)
JSMP:
An Analysis a Sexual Assult Decision from Dili District Court (July 2004)
Kirsty Sword Gusmao on UN SC Resolution 1325 on women and peace*
(April 20)
JSMP:
Women's Access to Justice*,
Press Release (April)
CIIR calls on UN to ensure justice for women* (March 22)
Women Peace-builders Continue Their Struggle For Peace & Non Violence*
(Jan 27)
First
International Women’s Peacebuilding Conference in Timor-Leste*
(Jan 22)
A Cruel
History for East-Timorese Women (Jan 19)
Enhancing women's participation in electoral processes in post conflict
countries: Experiences form East Timor,* by
Milena Pires (January)
2003
UN:
Are Women Included or Excluded in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: A Case
Study from Timor-Leste,* by Emily Roynestad
(November)
UN:
Peace Agreements as a Means for Promoting Gender Equality and Ensuring
Participation of Women,* Prepared by
Christine Chinkin (2003)
Draft Legislation of Domestic Violence of
Democratic Republic of Timor Leste*
CIIR:
East Timor: Women's groups boost economy in villages*
(Nov 11)
UNIFEM:
Engendering Statistics for Nation Building in East Timor* (Nov 6)
UNMISET:
The
Special Needs of Women and Children in Conflict*;
Evaluation Report* (October 2003)
Xanana- at book
launch of Women, War, Peace (August 6)
Women of
Timor enlist aid of Oxfam (August 3)
Perpetrators of rape must be brought to justice, CIIR staff tells UN*
(July 29)
UNMISET Rejects Charge It Failed to Probe Trafficking* (July 3)
UN probes
flesh trade in East Timor (July 2)
East Timor women must tell of atrocities by Indonesians
(June 9 & 10)
Women and Conflict National Public Hearing*
(April)
CIIR: Speaks at Truth and Reconciliation Commission*
Truth Commission to hold Women in Conflict hearing*
(April 23)
SCU: New Indictment Charges 5 TNI Soldiers with Rape*
(April 10)
UNICEF:
From despair to care: Countering domestic abuse*
(January 27)
2002
East
Timorese recalls wartime sex-slave experience (December 14)
2 ex-E.
Timor sex slaves break silence at NGO tribunal (December 10)
De Mello on Women in Timor
(December 6)
Policy Paper for the Draft Law on Domestic Violence (November)
East Timor
Women's Network demands Justice
(August 25)
Widows' group demands international tribunal
(August 24)
Women Worldwide Call For an
International Tribunal For East Timor: Officials, Scholars And
Activists Say Justice For Crimes Against Timorese Women Needed Now (May
13)
CIIR: Hope in hard times:
Women's struggle for justice in East Timor (May)
The Women of East Timor* (May 2002)
More women die in childbirth in East Timor than anywhere in East Asia
(March 8)
Sex slave protests confront Japanese army
(March 5)
ETAN's UN Press Conference with Filomena Barros dos Reis
2001
Gender & Constitution Working Group
(December)
East Timorese woman addresses UN Security Council;
UN: Women & Peacekeeping
(October 30)
ETese
NGOs write to Japanese PM (September 3)
CIIR: Women win one in four seats in East Timorese elections
CIIR: Listen to East Timor's women — Press release
(September)
Women's Power for East Timor* (July/August 2001)
BBC: Women
in East Timor, links to radio broadcast in RealAudio (August 7)
Small Arms and East Timor: Impact on Women in Militia-Controlled Camps
(July 17)
UN: Women and Human Rights report -
Timor sections
East Timor's children of the enemy
(March 10)
ETAN: Letter to UN on Women and Upcoming East Timor Elections
(March 1)
UN: Women and Human Rights report - Timor sections
(January)
2000
ETAN: Ajiza Magno Discusses the Next Phase of Struggle
(Fall 2000)
Women's Network statement to Brussels donor conference (December 2000)
Two ex-E. Timor sex slaves break silence at NGO tribunal
(December 10)
Scars of vote violence remain real for many East Timor women
(November 19)
The Role of
Women in Maintaining International Peace & Security, Statement by
Rede: Feto: Timor Lorosae a network of East Timorese women and women's
organization to UN (October 24)
Women Refugees Held as Sex Slaves by Militia Thugs
(August 28)
CIIR: Petition to UN
Decolonization Committee (July)
Women ask for bigger role in E. Timor peace-building
(June 14)
The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor: Gender affairs
Sherrill Whittington*
1999
Raping the
Future: The Indonesian government's social policy toward East Timor has included the systematic violation of sexual and reproductive rights of East Timorese women.
(August)
Timor's women of
independence (August 7)
The Abuse of East Timorese Women
(August 1)
Women's struggle in East Timor: an eyewitness report
(July 10)
Women Targeted in Timor;
E.Timor rape victims too afraid to give evidence
(April 2)
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Prior to 1999
Alas Women's Testimony
(December 1998)
FOKUPERS: Women Seminar Dili
(November 25, 1998)
Report on First Dili Women's Conference
(November 23, 1998)
FRETILIN: Organizacao da Mulher Timor (OMT)
(September 1998)
Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW):
Indonesia. Includes comments and
observations on Timor-Leste* (May 14, 1998)
A message to the Beijing Conference from the East Timorese Women From
Lafai Lighur of the Clandestine Resistance*
(September 6, 1995)
Additional links on Women's
Issues related sites
see also news items in Timor Postings
section
ETAN's Human
Rights and Justice page
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