Index to Articles about Justice and Human Rights

Click here for an index to articles topics other than justice and human rights.

"LHB" indicates that the article was published in the La'o Hamutuk Bulletin. Most other items are press releases, reports, or submissions to public officials.
Articles are in reverse chronological order, with the most recent listed first.

Select a topic to go to a list of links to articles about it:

• International crimes 1975-1999

• Policing

• Refugees

• Gender

• Relations with Indonesia

• Writing Timor-Leste's Constitution

General

• Foreign Soldiers should stay out of Timorese Politics, LH press release (3/10)

• LHB: Editorial: Rejecting impunity, moving towards justice and other articles (also Tetum) (2/10)

  LHB: Land Justice and the Transitional Land Law (also Tetum) (2/10)

• Briefing paper: Democracy in Timor-Leste: Information is required! (also Tetum) (8/09)

• Land Processes in Timor-Leste – information on the USAID Strengthening Property Rights Program and Ita Nia Rai process, Land Laws, Customary Land (also Tetum) (6/09)

• Komentariu no Rekomendasaun husi Sosiedade Sivil kona ba Kuardru Legal Tolu Desentralizasaun nian fo ba Komisaun A, Parlamentu RDTL (5/09)

• LH comment on U.S. State Department 2008 report on human rights in Timor-Leste (4/09)

• LH Statement on defamation case against Tempo Semanal (3/09)

• LH Radio Igualidade "Liberdade Imprensa" ho Jose A. Belo kona ba kazu defamasaun (14 MB, Tetum MP3)  (2/09)

• LH Submission to Australian Parliamentary Inquiry on Human Rights Mechanisms and the Asia-Pacific, as well as submission from Clinton Fernandes, and Melbourne Age article (12/08)

• LH Desijaun Tribunal Rekursu iha Nasaun de Direitu Demokrátiku (11/08)

• Text of new Law on Truth and Clemency and LHB Editorial that it perpetuates impunity  Appeals Court opinion   (Portuguese) (6/07)
  LHB President promises not to promulgate (9/07)

• LH Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (6/06)
  How UNMIT was created (8/06)

• La'o Hamutuk observations on current situation in Dili (5/06)

• La'o Hamutuk letter to RDTL President asking him to reject defamation law (also Tetum) (1/06)

• Timor-Leste participates in International Day of Action against the Shwe Gas Project in Burma (10/05)

• LHB Reviewing the Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR). Also Editorial: CAVR and Justice (11/03)

• Timor-Leste Gives U.S. Soldiers Impunity, Quietly (11/03)

• Article-by-article commentary on Timor-Leste's Immigration and Asylum Bill (From the NGO Working Group to Study the Bill, 5/03)
  Court of Appeals decision rejecting the Bill (6/03)

• LHB Timor-Leste Puts U.S. Soldiers Above the Law (12/02)

• Disorder in Timor-Leste: The International Community Must Accept Responsibility; also Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia (12/02)

• LHB Editorial: Democracy Requires Information (12/02)

• LHB Editorial: Independence and Impunity (ET exempts U.S. personnel from International Criminal Court) (10/02)

• LHB Women and Justice (10/01)

• LHB Eyes on the Justice System (6/01)

• LHB Reconciliation from Legal and Socio-cultural Perspectives (6/00)

International Crimes from 1975 to 1999

• Letter from La'o Hamutuk to the UN Security Council analyzing Secretary-General's report on UNMIT (2/10)

• LHB: Justice for Timor-Leste: Unmet international obligation; Editorial: Reject impunity, towards justice and other articles (also Tetum) (2/10)

• Letter from Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal to the UN Security Council about justice (2/10)

• Analysis of words about justice used in the UN Security Council debates and resolutions during the past ten years. (also Tetum)  (12/09)

• La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council on justice and other issues. Also PDFs of letter and annex, and Tetum translation. (10/09)

• Tell the UN Security Council how you feel about justice (mos Tetum) (10/09)

• The Scourge of Impunity in Indonesia by Carmel Budiardjo (9/09)

• La'o Hamutuk analysis of the Maternus Bere case (9/09)

• Pages on Maternus Bere's crimes with many photos and links, including to 2003 indictment for "crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, enforced disappearance, torture, inhumane acts, rape, deportation and persecution." with information on his 2009 arrest and illegal release, background information, reactions from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Appeals Court and others, articles from local and international media, etc. (9/09)

• Briefing Paper: Justice for Timor-Leste Remains an Unfulfilled International Obligation or
  Justisa ba Timór-Leste Nafatin Nu’udar Obrigasaun Internasionál ida be Seidauk Atínje (Tetum) (8/09)

• Programa Radio Igualidade Justisa ba Massakre 1999 ho familia vitima sira (13 MB Tetum MP3) (4/09)

• Declaration and photos from the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Manuel Carrascalao's house in Dili. (4/09)

• Report and petition from survivors on the tenth anniversary of the Liquiça massacre, with photos and links. (4/09)

• "Stop Ongoing Impunity" statement about Invasion Day from the TL National Alliance for an International Tribunal in (PDFs in English and Tetum) (12/08)

• LH submission to Parliamentary Committee A on implementing the recommendations of the TFC and CAVR (English/Tetum) (9/08)

• National Alliance Statement on TFC report (also Tetum) (7/08)

• UNMIT-RDTL Agreement about investigation of 1999 Serious crimes (2/08)

• UN sets justice bar low, then declines to jump.
   Including La'o Hamutuk letter to UN Security Council. (2/08)

• Photos from demonstration against Truth and Friendship Commission
  Program for Alternative Public Hearing
  IFET Testimony to Alternative Hearing  (9/07)

• LHB Gareth Evans Must Apologize (9/07)

• LHB TL Alliance for an International Tribunal plans strategy (6/07)

• LHB Reviewing Unfulfilled Promises for Justice (6/07)

• LH Briefing on justice for Inter-Parliamentary Union (4/07)

• LHB Editorial: CAVR Recommendations Deserve Attention (4/06)

• LHB National Alliance urges President Xanana Gusmão to release CAVR Report (1/06)

• TL National Alliance letter to UN Secretary-General on CAVR Report Handover (1/06)

• LHB Editorial: The Forgotten Tragedy, 7 December 1975, Action to mark 30th anniversary of invasion (12/05)

• LHB Victims' Families Visit Indonesia (11/05)

• LH letter to UN SRSG about ongoing justice options (10/05)
  Recommendations of the Secretary-General (8/06)

• LHB Summary of Commission of Experts Report (8/05)
  Text of CoE Report and RDTL response (6/05)

• LHB Editorial: Truth and Friendship Commission brings neither (8/05)

• Surat Popular about Justice (4/05)

• LHB Panel Discussion and Statement on Truth and Friendship Commission (4/05)

• LHB The Special Panels for Serious Crimes - Justice for Timor-Leste? (10/04)

• LHB Good Timor-Leste-Indonesia Relations requires ending impunity (10/04)

• Alliance: Timor-Leste's Political Leaders Must Not Interfere with Justice (2/04)
  Also Tetum

• LHB Editorial: Justice after UNMISET (1/04)

• Happy USA Independence Day Rally (7/03)

• LHB Editorial: No Justice, No Peace (5/03)

• LHB Editorial: Indonesia Fails to Provide Justice for 1999 (10/02)

• LHB Justice Still Delayed (5/02)

• LHB United States Permission for 1975 Invasion Confirmed (2/02)

• LHB Editorial: Donors Should Be Generous, Without Strings (12/01)

• Justice and Accountability in Timor-Leste: Int'l Tribunals and Other Options: Report of seminar in Dili (10/01)

• Letter to UNTAET Deputy SRSG McNamara on justice issues (10/01)

• LHB Special issue Justice for Timor-Leste? (10/01)

• LHB The Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation: An Overview  (10/01)

• LHB Editorial: Time to Get Serious About Justice for Timor-Leste (10/01)

• LHB Supplement: Chronology of Justice and Accountability for Timor-Leste: September 1999 - October 2001 also PDF format (10/01)

• LHB Editorial: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Facilitates Indonesia’s Impunity (4/01)

• LHB Editorial: Reconciliation, Justice, and Reconstruction (6/00)

Policing

• HAK Association report on human rights situation in Bobonaro and Covalima (2/10)

• Letter from La'o Hamutuk to the UN Security Council analyzing Secretary-General's report on UNMIT (2/10)

• LHB Screening PNTL back into service (6/07)

• LHB Public Meeting on PNTL-UNPOL Cooperation (3/07)

• UNMIT-RDTL-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of assistance to the TL regarding provision and coordination of police and military forces (1/07)

• UNMIT-RDTL Arrangement on how the UN  police will work with the Timorese Police (12/06)

• LHB UNMISET and Internal Security in Timor-Leste (5/03)

• LHB An Assessment of the UN’s Police Mission in Timor-Leste (2/02)

• LHB Editorial: CivPol-Community Relations Need Repair (4/01)

Refugees

• LHB Timor-Leste’s Refugees in West Timor (11/03)

• LHB 55,000 Timor-Leste People Still Stuck in Indonesia (5/02)

• LHB Editorial: U.N. & the Refugee Crisis (7/01)
  Three months later, LH published a Letter from SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello  in response to this editorial, and our response (10/01)

Gender

• LHB The struggle for gender equality continues (11/08)

• LHB The Impact of Mining on Women in the Pacific (8/08)

• Timor-Leste declines in UNDP Human Development Ranking (12/07)

• LHB Women's Movement: Looking back and ahead (9/07)

• LHB Gender analysis training in Yogyakarta (4/06)

• LHB Public hearing on Timorese WWII comfort women (4/06)

• LHB Sixteen Days Against Violence (1/04)

• LHB WB Workshop on Gender and Poverty Reduction (11/03)

• The Timor-Leste Association of Men Against Violence (7/02)

• LHB An Exchange with Activists from Nicaragua on Power and Gender (5/02)

• Surat Popular: Feto Ho Mane No Konstrusaun Social (Gender)

• LHB Women and Justice (10/01)

• LHB Women and the Reconstruction of Timor-Leste (8/01)

• LHB Campaign to Support Women' Rights in the Constitution (8/01)

• LHB Women's Participation at the Rural Community Level (8/01)

• LHB Domestic Violence: A Part of Women's Daily Lives in Timor-Leste (8/01)

• LHB Commentary: International Security Forces and Sexual Misconduct (8/01)

• LHB Catholic Women's Conference in Rome (8/01)

• LHB Childbirth: A Major Health Concern for Women (8/01)

• LHB The United Nations, Gender Affairs, and Timor-Leste (8/01)

• LHB The Employment of Women in ETTA (8/01)

• Objectionable PKF T-shirt (4/01)

Relations with Indonesia (See also sections on justice and refugees)

• Pages on Maternus Bere's crimes with many documents, photos and links, articles from local and international media, etc. (9/09)

• The Scourge of Impunity in Indonesia by Carmel Budiardjo (9/09)

• LHB Editorial: The Forgotten Tragedy, 7 December 1975, Action to mark 30th anniversary of invasion (12/05)

• LHB Victims' Families Visit Indonesia (11/05)

• LHB Editorial: Truth and Friendship Commission brings neither (8/05)

• LHB Tsunami poetry and solidarity (4/05)

• LHB Pertamina's Dominance and implications for electricity in TL (12/04)

• LHB Good Timor-Leste-Indonesia Relations requires ending impunity (10/04)

• LHB 'Cak' Munir: 1956-2004 (10/04)

• LHB Timor-Leste’s Refugees in West Timor (11/03)

• LHB Editorial: Military Operation in Aceh (8/03)

Writing Timor-Leste's Constitution

• La'o Hamutuk analysis of the Maternus Bere case (9/09)

• LH Desijaun Tribunal Rekursu iha Nasaun de Direitu Demokrátiku (11/08)

• Text of Constitution (PDF): English, Tetum, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese (3/02)

• LHB For an Interim Constitution (8/01)

• LHB Editorial: Constitution Building: Focusing on the Process (6/01)

• NGO Forum declines to join UNTAET Constitutional Process (4/01)

• Working Group on Constitution's Surat Popular on Constitution (English): 
  Also Tetum and Bahasa Indonesia (PDF)

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