Timor-Leste: IDPs face difficult journey home
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Date: 01 Dec 2008 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Date: 01 Dec 2008 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Source: Date: 28 Nov 2008Timor-Leste: Humanitarian update 8 - 21 Nov 2008The Humanitarian Update (HU) aims at providing a periodic analysis of current humanitarian issues, facts and policy developments in Timor-Leste with primary attention given to internally displaced persons (IDPs). The HU is based on voluntary information inputs from UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes, NGO members of...
SEARCH Foundation (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
FRETILIN Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri visited Australia in late October, bearing a message that his country cannot afford the ongoing conflict ...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
This article is part of an ongoing assessment of armed violence in Timor-Leste being carried out by Austcare and the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey. The assessment aims to identify and clarify concrete policyrelevant entry points to prevent and reduce real and perceived armed violence in Timor-Leste. Undertaken between May 2008 and May 2009, a Dili-based repository of existing international...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
The Humanitarian Update (HU) aims at providing a periodic analysis of current humanitarian issues, facts and policy developments in Timor-Leste with primary attention given to internally displaced people (IDPs). The HU is based on voluntary information inputs from UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes, NGO members of the Humanitarian Coordination Committee and other partners. It analyses information...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
An earthquake with the magnitude of5.2 jolted Timor Leste on Friday, but with no report of damage or casualty, the Indonesian meteorology agency said here. The quake struck at 16:18 Jakarta time 0918 GMT with the epicenter at 306 kilometers northeast Dili, the capital of the country and at 30 kilometers in depth, an official of the agency said. Timor Leste sits on a vulnerable quake-hit...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Two years after violent conflict erupted in Dili in May 2006, some of the 100,000 people who remained displaced in April 2008 have started returning home. About a third of these internally displaced people (IDPs) were in camps in the capital, and the rest with relatives and friends in the districts where they had sought refuge after the violence. However, perhaps 40,000 people have been unable to return,...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
The Humanitarian Update (HU) aims at providing a periodic analysis of current humanitarian issues, facts and policy developments in Timor-Leste with primary attention given to internally displaced people (IDPs). The HU is based on voluntary information inputs from UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes, NGO members of the Humanitarian Coordination Committee and other partners. It analyses information...
Indonesia Matters (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Purba Negoro sees broad sunlit uplands for East Timor-Indonesia relations, and current Australian nefariousness. Timor Leste seeks Javanese Know-how Timor Leste’s Economic and Development Minister Joao Gonzalves is visiting Yogyakarta Special Province (DIY) to explore win-win cooperation in various fields. “We hope cooperation win-win cooperation with Yogyakarta in the field of agriculture,...
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore's third peacekeeping team has left for Timor Leste.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said here on Wednesday his country was to withdraw the number of soldiers operating in Timor-Leste because of the improved security situation. Fitzgibbon said the Australian Defense Force would cut back its total force presence in Timor-Leste to approximately 650 personnel by early next year. Currently, the Australian-led International Stabilization...
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore is set to send another peacekeeping mission to Timor-Leste next Tuesday.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
MANILA, Oct. 21 (PNA) -- Timor Leste delegation headed by President Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta recently visited the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) where some of the Timorese students will be enrolled for their college studies.
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... from ‘Jesus Hill’. It wouldn’t go, the utter bastard, despite me leaving it loading for the entire Timor Leste film they were showcasing in the bar. The film was good even if I didn’t understand everything. It’s a shame I was so distracted to be honest. It probably did make sense if you were not half absorbed by technical issues on the World Wide Web. Being the net geek I am I didn’t pay...
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
Editorial; 27/11/08; (2 Items) The report on violence against women in Melanesia and East Timor published on our front page yesterday reveals nothing new. Much of what is contained is known in one form or another in this country except for some of the innovative ways women are used in leadership roles in Timor Leste and [...]