East Timor Women / Mulheres de Timor-Leste

Timor woman

Manacled by your misery

Timor woman

Your spirit bound in servitude

(Xanana Gusmão)

"The women of East Timor invite you to share in our lives through this web site which has been created to raise awareness about the plight of women in East Timor. (...)" [read more at “East Timor Women”]

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Resources

JUSTICE

• Cases of Domestic Violence Processed by the Formal Justice System at The Start of 2008
• Petition to the Governments of Japan and Timor-Leste For Timor-Leste Victims of the Japanese Military’s Sexual Slavery System 20 February 2008
• Judicial System Monitoring Program: Women's Justice Unit
• UN: Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences 21 January 1999
• Gender and Reparations in Timor-Leste Galuh Wandita, Karen Campbell-Nelson, Manuela Leong Pereira International Centre for Transitional Justice
• Three suspects arrested for killing of Timorese "witches" 10 Jan 2007
• East Timor Witch-accused women burned 08 January 2007 Agence France Press report
• Pictures of rape, torture released South China Morning Post Friday November 21 1997
• In East Timor, Women Call for Justice Off Our Backs Mar/Apr 2004 by Diane Farsetta
• Women’s Rights in East Timor (2001) Online Women Women in Politics
• Women and justice in Timor-Leste Maria Agnes Bere Judicial System Monitoring Programme Timor-Leste 2005
• Women in the formal justice sector: Report on the Dili District Court 2004
• Statistics on cases of violence against women in Timor-Leste 2005
• Analysis of decisions in cases involving women and childrenVictims June 2004-March 2005
• Police treatment of women in Timor-Leste 2005
• BACK DOOR Newsletter on East Timor Women's Issues
• Women suffering in silence Kirsty Sword Gusmao 7 July 2006

DEVELOPMENT

• Overview of the Situation of Women in East Timor By Kylie McBride Work of Women July 2007
• La'o Hamutuk Bulletin: Women and the Reconstruction of East Timor August 2001
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: PeaceWomen Timor Page
• Aid restrictions are killing the women of East Timor Emily Maguire 31 December 2007
• Rallying cry of East Timor's women Progression July 2006
• Timor women create history Oxfam News December 2005
• Challenging Tradition, Changing Society : the Role of Women in East Timor' s Transition to Independence Peter Carey Trinity College Oxford June 2001
• The tragedy of the women of East Timor The Guardian 15 January 2001 Maggie O'Kane.
• East Timor: Women face uphill struggle 24 January 2001 Robyn Marshall
• Women of Timor-Leste: Seeking freedom in a free nation de Sousa, R, 2005. ‘Women of Timor-Leste: Seeking freedom in a free nation’, Development Bulletin, no. 68, pp. 34-35.
• Raping the Future by Tim Eaton Aug. 26, 1999
• Issues for Women in East Timor: The Aftermath of Indonesian Occupation Mira Martins da Silva PRADET Timor Lorosa'e Susan Kendall Coordinator, Sexual Assault Service, Northern Sydney “Expanding Our Horizons” Conference, Sydney, 2002
• UN Security Council ‘Arria formula’ meeting on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 30 October 2001 Natércia Godinho-Adams