Index to Articles by Topic

"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:

• Justice and human rights

  • International crimes 1975-1999

  • Policing

  • Refugees

  • Gender

  • Relations with Indonesia

  • Writing Timor-Leste's Constitution

• Oil and natural gas

  • Background and overview

  • Sunrise LNG

  • Tasi Mane petroleum infrastructure project

  • Other petroleum Projects

  • Heavy oil power plants

  • The Resource Curse

  • Petroleum Laws (regime)

  • Petroleum Fund

  • Transparency

  • Maritime boundary with Australia

  • Other petroleum issues

• Environment

• IFIs: World Bank, IMF, ADB

• Global trade and markets

• Timor-Leste state finances

• Corruption

• Aid to Timor-Leste

  • Donors Conferences

• United Nations

  • Japanese peacekeepers

• Militarization and war

• Land rights

• Agriculture

• Popular Education and Intercambios (exchanges)

• Solidarity and activism

• Other

Justice and Human Rights (see separate index page)

Oil and Natural Gas (see separate index page)

Environment

• LH comments at Rio+20 Green Economy for Sustainable Development workshop (11/11)

• LH second submission to DNMA on draft Basic Environment Law (10/11)

• Revised draft Basic Environmental Law (also Portuguese) for second consultation (9/11)

• LH submission on Basic Environmental Law: Narrative part and section-by-section comments (3/11)

• Draft Basic Environmental Law for public consultation (2/11)

• Declaration One Hour for Mother Earth (also Tetum) and action photos (10/10/10)

• LH submission (also Tetum) on TOR for Environmental Impact Statement (also Tetum) for Eni's further exploratory drilling in S06-03 (9/10)

• LH submission on Environmental Impact Statement for Eni's Cova-1 exploratory drilling (7/10) and Eni's response (also Tetum) (8/10)

• Oilwatch Southeast Asia Regional Meeting presentations and statement (also Tetum) (7/10)

• LH submission on Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Plans for Reliance's exploratory drilling in Block K of Timor-Leste exclusive offshore area (6/10)

• LH submission on Eni's proposed Environmental Management Plan (also Tetum) for the GeoStreamer seismic survey (6/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Rezultadu Konferensia UNFCCC iha Kopenhagen (6 MB Tetum MP3) (4/10)

• LH Open Letter asking Prime Minister not to sign the Copenhagen Accord (Eng. and Tet.) (3/10)

• LHB Timor-Leste in global action against climate change (2/10)

• Climate Change and Timor-Leste index page (12/09)

• Heavy oil power plants index and analysis (Eng. and Tet.) (3/09)

• LHB Jatropha: Jobs for farmers or fuel for foreigners?  (11/08)

• LHB Heavy Oil power plants (also Tetum) (11/08)

• LHB Climate Justice, Now! (also Tetum) (11/08)

• Justisa Klimatika presentation (Tetum) (9/08)

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

• LHB Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (8/08)

• Commentary and documents about sugar cane and jatropha agro-fuels projects, including MOUs and other documents (6/08)

• Seismic exploration environmental management plans from Eni and Reliance, with submissions from La'o Hamutuk (6/08)

• Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

• LH submission regarding Environmental Plan for Eni Marine Seismic Survey (6/07)

  Petroleum in Timor-Leste (presentation to the International Forum on Petroleum, Human Rights and Environmental Reparation, Ecuador) (10/06)

• Oil in Timor-Leste: A discussion of economic, ecological and moral debt. (Chapter written for Oilwatch by La'o Hamutuk) (9/05)

International Financial Institutions

• Groups worldwide urge debt-free Timor-Leste not to borrow. Statement and press release from 117 Timorese and international organizations (English/Tetum) (9/11)

• Why Should Timor-Leste go into Debt? (also Tetum) Background, commentary and reference documents. (8/11)

• LH letter to the IMF about their reports on public financial management (12/10) and IMF response (1/11)

• The World Bank's Doing Business 2011 report and Timor-Leste (11/10)

• NGO Forum submission (also Tetum) on proposed budget and financial management law (9/09)

• LHB Editorial: World Bank Recommends Neo-Liberal Pathway, Again (1/08)

• The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste, paper presented by La'o Hamutuk at the University of Brasilia (7/06)

• LHB World Trade Organization Exposed in Ermera (11/05)

• LHB Editorial: Whitewashing Wolfowitz at the World Bank (8/05)

• Lessons Learned: The Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project  Report by Rolling Think Tank (3/04)

• LHB World Social Forum “Another World is Possible”  (3/04)

• LHB The Banking and Payments Authority (BPA) and the IMF's role(1/04)

• Report from seminar on Timor-Leste joining the International Financial Institutions (11/02)

• Surat Popular: Banku Mundial iha Timor Lorosa'e (World Bank in Timor-Leste) 

• LHB Report on "IDA 14" Opinion Leaders Consultation, Vietnam (12/04)
  Also LHB Editorial: The Truth Behind the International Development Association and its Poverty Reduction Policy (12/04)

• LHB Seven Ways to Meet Timor-Leste’s Financial Gap (3/04)

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

• LHB ADB Fiji Workshop on Good Governance  (11/03)

• LHB Editorial: Privatization and Profit in Developing Countries  (11/03)

• LHB A Review of the First Year of the Transition Support Program, including diagrams about public sector spending in Timor-Leste (5/03)

• LHB The Asian Development Bank in Timor-Leste, highlighting its Microfinance project and privatization agenda (3/03)

• LHB The Community Empowerment Project Revisited (10/02)

• LHB Editorial: A Brief Overview of the National Development Plan (8/02)

  LHB Editorial: Financial Independence (5/02)

• LHB Report from the World Social Forum II (4/02)

• LHB An Assessment of Pilot Agricultural Service Centers in Timor-Leste (2/02)

• LHB School Furniture: Looking at a World Bank-UNTAET/ETTA Project  (8/01)

• LHB UNTAET-World Bank Background Paper (7/01)

• LHB The IMF in Timor-Leste (6/01)

• LHB Editorial: Dollarization and Democracy (6/01)

• LHB The World Bank in Timor-Leste (12/00)

• LHB Assessing the World Bank’s Agricultural Project (12/00)

• LHB Evaluating the World Bank’s CEP Project (12/00)

• LHB Editorial: Democracy & the World Bank (12/00)

Global Trade and Markets

• ASEAN and Free Trade (also Tetum), with links to documents (10/10)

• Radio Igualidade: ASEAN Vantagen no Desvantagen (6 MB Tetum MP3) (8/10)

• LHB Jatropha: Jobs for farmers or fuel for foreigners?  (11/08)

• Commentary and documents about GTLESTE BIOTECH sugar cane agro-fuels project, including MOU with RDTL Ministry of Agriculture (5/08)

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

• Surat Popular: Merkadoria Mundial (Global Markets)

• LHB Editorial: Privatization and Profit in Developing Countries  (11/03)

• LHB The ADB and Privatization in Timor-Leste (3/03)

  LHB Editorial: Financial Independence (5/02)

• LHB Coffee in Timor-Leste and the World. Several reports (4/02)

• LHB Editorial: Challenging the Injustice of Coffee (4/02)

Timor-Leste State Finances

• LH letter to President Jose Ramos-Horta (also Tetum) raising concerns about the 2012 State Budget (12/11)

• Press release (also Tetum) and Preliminary Recommendations (also Tetum) from the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty (11/11)

• Compania Investimentu Timor-Leste, Investe ka Fakar Osan? (11/11)

• LH letter to Parliament Committee C (also Tetum) on the Appeals Court Opinion on the 2010 General State Accounts (also Port.) (10/11)

• LH submission to Parliament Committee C on the proposed 2012 State Budget (also Tetum) (10/11)

• Index page on 2012 State Budget (also Tetum) (10/11)

• Deve no Problema sira ba Timor-Leste husi Guteriano Neves iha Diario Nasional (9/11)

• Index page with summary, links and documents on the Strategic Development Plan (9/11)

• Groups worldwide urge debt-free Timor-Leste not to borrow. Statement and press release from 117 Timorese and international organizations (English/Tetum) (9/11)

• Why Should Timor-Leste go into Debt? (also Tetum) Background, commentary and reference documents. (8/11)

• Some thoughts from LH for the Regional EITI Conference (also Tetum) (8/11)

• LH preliminary analysis (also Tetum) and summary of analysis (also Tetum) of Strategic Development Plan (also Portuguese) approved by Parliament (7/11)

• Presentation by LH about TL's Economy and State Budget to UNTL/Victoria University Conference on Knowledge, Attitudes and Skills (also Tetum) (7/11)

  LH Treinamentu kona-ba Orsamentu Jeral Estadu RDTL 2011 - rekursu, aprezentasaun, no sst. (5/11)

• UNDP 2011 National Human Development Report for Timor-Leste (also Tetum) with La'o Hamutuk comment (also Tetum and Tetum slideshow) (5/11)

• LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in global 2010 UNDP report (5/11)

• Analysis of the draft of the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030 (also Tetum), including May 2010 leaked draft plan, slide show of Prime Minister's public consultation, leaked contract and TOR, and many other documents (4/11)

• Understanding the 2011 Budget (also Tetum) graphs of allocation and execution (2/11)

• Ministry of Finance presentation on Strategic Development Plan (2/11)

• LH article We Must Respect the Constitutional Principles of the President’s Duties (also Tetum) about JRH seeking court advice before promulgating the 2011 State Budget (2/11)

• LH letter to Parliament Committee C about 2011 State Budget (also Tetum) (1/11)

• LH letter to the IMF about their reports on public financial management (12/10) and IMF response (1/11)

• LH submission to Parliament Committee C on 2011 State Budget (also PDF and Tetum) (12/10)

• Making the Oil Companies Pay What They Owe (12/10)

• LH submission to Parliament Committee D on 2011 State Budget (also PDF and Tetum) (12/10)

• 2011 General State Budget for Timor-Leste (12/10)

• 2010 mid-year budget rectification index page, with links to many documents (9/10)

• Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Timor-Leste index page (7/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Orsamentu Rektifikativu 2010 (6 MB Tetum MP3) (6/10)

• Submission from La'o Hamutuk on mid-year budget rectification (6/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Timor-Leste atu Debe? (6 MB Tetum MP3) (5/10)

• LHB: Donor, oil and other money in Timor-Leste since 1999 (2/10)

• LH Timór-Leste atu Debe: Lojika ka La’e? (11/09)

• LH Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2010 hatutan nafatin dalan ba ‘Malisan Rekursu’ (11/09)

• LH Submission to Parliament on 2010 General State Budget (also Tetum) and corrective letter (also Tetum) (11/09)

• 2010 General State Budget for Timor-Leste, including Budget Documents, analysis and Preliminary comments by LH (also Tetum) (10/09)

• LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in 2009 UNDP report (10/09)

• NGO Forum submission (also Tetum) on proposed budget and financial management law (9/09)

• Briefing Paper: How much money have international donors spent on and in Timor-Leste? (also Tetum) (8/09)

• LHB: Estimating Sustainable Income  (also Tetum) (6/09)

• Orsamento Estadu 2009: Prudente ka lae? Three newspaper articles debating whether the budget brings the resource curse to TL (Tetum, 4/09)

• LH analysis of prudence and sustainability in calculating the Estimated Sustainable Income (also Tetum) (3/09)

• LH article 2009 State Budget: Who does it benefit? (also Tetum) (1/09)

• LH Submission on TL budget for 2009 (also Tetum), (1/09)
  Also submissions from FONGTIL, Ba Los, and ETADEP (all Tetum)

• Topic page on RDTL State Budget for 2009, with links (12/08)

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

• LHB Editorial: Budget Invites Resource Curse (11/08)

• LHB Budgeting for the future (11/08)

• Appeals court rules mid-year budget unconstitutional
  Text of ruling (Portuguese), Complaint (Portuguese) and many other links (11/08)

• LH training for journalists on the budget (also Tetum and Powerpoints in Tetum and English) and annotated budget (10/08)

• LHB Editorial and report on Public Meeting regarding the new tax law (8/08)

• Summary of the new Tax Reform law (7/08)

• Core Group analysis of Economic Stabilization Fund (also Tetum)  (7/08)

• Mid-Year update to the 2008 RDTL State Budget, information and analysis about the 122% increase (11/08)

• Budget Execution Reports for July-Dec 2007 and Jan-Mar 2008, Jan-Jun 2008, and Jan-Sep 2008 (11/08)

• Proposed domestic tax reform legislation, with many documents, texts, testimonies and hearing schedule (5/08)

• RDTL State Budget for 2008 (2/08)
  UNDP Budget Highlights pamphlet. (12/07)

• LHB Editorial: World Bank Recommends Neo-Liberal Pathway, Again (1/08)

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

• Fourth Constitutional Government of RDTL: Structure, Program, Budget and members (10/07)

• LHB Editorial: Parliament, Don't pass greedy pension laws (3/07)

• Save the people’s money! (stop lifetime pensions for former members of parliament) (1/07)

• LHB Timor-Leste will be one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world (11/05)

• LHB Seven Ways to Meet Timor-Leste’s Financial Gap (3/04)

• LHB The Banking and Payments Authority (BPA) (1/04)

• LH Statement to the Development Partners Meeting also Portuguese (12/03)

• LHB Development Partners conference (8/03).
  See also Joint NGO Statement to the Development Partners Meeting (6/03)

• LHB A Review of the First Year of the Transition Support Program, including diagrams about all public sector spending in Timor-Leste (5/03)

• LHB Editorial: A Brief Overview of the National Development Plan (8/02)

• LHB Editorial: Dollarization and Democracy (6/01)

• LHB Funding Timor-Leste's Reconstruction: An Overview of the UNTAET and ETTA budgets, where they come from and how they are spent (including diagrams) (4/01)

• LHB Editorial: Equipment Should Stay after UNTAET Leaves (4/01)

• LHB Taxes in Timor-Leste (4/01)

• LHB Editorial: Money Matters: Priorities and Process (4/01)

• LHB Funding the Health Sector (11/00)

Corruption (see also State Finances above)

• LH submission to Parliament Committee C (Tetum) and other information on the draft Anti-Corruption Law (6/11)

• LH presentation Risku Korrupsaun no Malisan Rikusoin Akompanha Dependensia ba Esportasaun Mina Rai (also English) (2/11)

• The U.S. MCC anti-corruption program in Timor-Leste and job adverts (1/11)

• The World Bank's Doing Business 2011 report and Timor-Leste (11/10)

• Briefing Paper: How much money have international donors spent on and in Timor-Leste? (also Tetum) (8/09)

• LHB: It takes more than a Commission to end corruption (also Tetum) (6/09)

• LH Submission on draft Anti-Corruption Commission Law (also Tetum) (2/09)
  Also texts of draft (Eng) and promulgated (Portuguese) Laws

• LH statements at Parliamentary anti-corruption conference (9/08)

Aid to Timor-Leste (see also Donors Conferences below)

• The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation in Timor-Leste with information about annual scorecards and the anti-corruption program (11/11)

• La'o Hamutuk submission on draft TL country report for process on Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States (5/11)

• 2011 OECD process on Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States, including draft country report (4/11)

• Radio Igualidade: Efektividade husi Ajudus (6 MB Tetum MP3) (4/10)

• LHB: Donor, oil and other money in Timor-Leste since 1999 (2/10)

• Briefing Paper: How much money have international donors spent on and in Timor-Leste? (also Tetum) (8/09)

• LHB Cuban support for health in Timor-Leste (8/08)

• LHB Oecusse Community Activation Program (OCAP) (1/08)

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

• LHB: Re-orienting La'o Hamutuk's Approach (9/07)

• LHB Vocational Education, as supported by Portugal and Brazil (9/07)

• Forum Tau Matan cancels an AusAID-funded project because AusAID had abrogated a contract with them for political reasons two years earlier (see 10/05 below) (7/07)

• LH Timor-Leste slips slightly in UNDP Human Development Index (11/06)

• The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste (7/06), paper presented by La'o Hamutuk at the University of Brasilia

• LH Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (6/06)

• LHB European Community Aid to Timor-Leste,  Rural Development Program (12/05)

• LHB UNDP Human Development Report Provides Insights for Timor-Leste (11/05)

• LH press release on AusAID revocation of a grant to a Timorese NGO in response to their calling for a fair maritime boundary (10/05)
  LHB Editorial (11/05)

• LHB Portuguese-Speaking countries (CPLP) aid to Timor-Leste (8/05)

• LHB The RESPECT Program in Timor-Leste (12/04).
  Our Bulletin later published a letter from UNDP and LH comment on this article (4/05)

• Lessons Learned: The Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project  Report by Rolling Think Tank (3/04)

• LHB Seven Ways to Meet Timor-Leste’s Financial Gap (3/04)

• LHB Brazilian Aid to Timor-Leste (8/03)

• LHB Analyzing Australian Aid and Military Assistance to Timor-Leste (12/02)

• LHB Portuguese Aid to Timor-Leste, including Portuguese support for education (10/02)

• LHB Japanese Aid to Timor-Leste (8/02)

• LHB Editorial: A Brief Overview of the National Development Plan (8/02)

• LHB What’s Behind China’s Support for Timor-Leste? (5/02)

• LHB United States Government Aid to Timor-Leste (4/02)

• LHB An Assessment of Pilot Agricultural Service Centers in Timor-Leste (2/02)

• LHB Bilateral Aid to Timor-Leste: An Overview (12/01)

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

• LHB School Furniture: Looking at a World Bank-UNTAET/ETTA Project  (8/01)

• LHB Can Timor-Leste survive the aid industry? Some questions from Mozambique (6/01)

• LHB Funding Timor-Leste's Reconstruction: An Overview of the UNTAET and ETTA budgets, where they come from and how they are spent (including diagrams) (4/01)

• LHB Editorial: Money Matters: Priorities and Process (4/01)

• LHB Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid Process Released by UNTAET (7/00)

• LHB Editorial: Charity or Justice? (7/00)

Donors (Development Partners) Conferences

• Documents relating to 2011 Development Partners Meeting.  Also La'o Hamutuk statement. (7/11)

• Documents relating to 2010 Development Partners Meeting.  Also NGO statement, Rede Feto Statement. (4/10)

• Documents relating to 2009 Development Partners Meeting.  Also NGO statement, Rede Feto Statement. (4/09)

• Documents relating to 2008 Development Partners Meeting.  Also NGO statement, background paper from government, Prime Minister's speech. (3/08)

• LH Statement to 2003 Development Partners Meeting: English / Portuguese (12/03)

• LHB Development Partners conference (8/03).
  See also Joint NGO Statement to the Development Partners Meeting (6/03)

• LHB Report on 12/02 Donors' conference (3/03)

• LHB Donor Pledges (8/02)

• LHB Report from the May 2002 Dili Donors Conference (7/02)

• LHB Report from the Oslo Donors’ Conference on Timor-Leste (2/02)

• LHB NGO Forum Raises Concerns to Donors (7/01)

United Nations

• LH letter to the UN Security Council about the S-G's latest UNMIT report (11/11)

• UNDP 2011 global Human Development Report shows Timor-Leste barely changed (11/11)

• UNDP 2011 National Human Development Report for Timor-Leste (also Tetum) with La'o Hamutuk comment (also Tetum and Tetum slideshow) (5/11)

• LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in global 2010 UNDP report (5/11)

• Letter from Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal to the UN Security Council (also Tetum) about justice (2/11)

• Letter from La'o Hamutuk to the UN Security Council analyzing Secretary-General's report on UNMIT (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. (10/09)

• LH Timor-Leste Human Development Index unchanged in 2009 UNDP report (10/09)

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

• UNMIT Transitional Strategy and Appeal (3/08)

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

• UN sets justice bar low, then declines to jump (2/08)

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

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

• LHB Lessons for the UN from Timor-Leste (3/07)

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

• UNMIT-RDTL-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of assistance to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste 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)

• LH Timor-Leste slips slightly in UNDP Human Development Index (11/06)

• Debate over placing foreign troops in Timor-Leste under UN command (8/06)
  includes statements from La'o Hamutuk, TL NGO Forum, IFET, James Dunn and many UN and RDTL Documents.

• The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste (7/06), paper presented by La'o Hamutuk at the University of Brasilia

• LH Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (6/06)
  summary press release

• LHB Assessment of UNMISET Advisors (8/05)

• LHB Civil Society Forum statement on Millennium Development Goals (1/04)

• Open Letter to UNMISET (7/03). This letter was printed as an LHB Editorial: What should UNMISET do now? (8/03)

• LHB UNDP Workshop on Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh (5/03)

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

• LHB Hiroshima UN Conference on Post-Conflict Reconstruction (3/03)

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

• LHB Timor-Leste joins United Nations (10/02)

• LHB Special Report on Electricity (8/02)
  LHB UNDP letter on Japan's aid to the Power Sector, and LH Response (12/02)

  LHB Timor-Leste Faces Post-UNTAET Challenges (5/02)

• Can the Rule of Law Prevail? Pressure from UN HQ Exacerbates Amos W Tax Controversy. Bahasa version (3/02)
  Also: Response from UNTAET (3/02)

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

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

• LHB Reconstruction and Transition: What are the Next Steps? (7/01)

• LHB UNTAET-World Bank Background Paper (7/01)

• LHB Planning for the Post-UNTAET Era (7/01)

• E. Timor NGOs protest UN police predictions of election violence with CivPol response (3/01) and LHB Editorial (4/01)

• LH on UNTAET Gag Rule (1/01)

• LHB World Health Organization Report on Timor-Leste Health Situation (11/00)

• LHB Environmental Health: UNTAET and Asbestos (7/00)

• LHB Evaluation of Humanitarian Aid Process Released by UNTAET (7/00)

• LHB Timor-Leste's Reconstruction: Much to celebrate, and much yet to accomplish (6/00)

Japanese Peacekeepers

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

• LHB Japanese Peacekeepers in Timor-Leste (8/02)

• LHB Why Refuse the Japanese Self-Defense Force? (2/02)

• Timor-Leste NGO letter to Japan on Peacekeepers (12/01)

• ET NGOs on Japanese Peacekeepers (3/01)

Militarization and War

• Foreign Soldiers should stay out of Timorese Politics, about the ISF causing community unease (5/10)

• LH letter to Chief of Australian Defence Force about ISF accountability (3/10)

• LH letter to Xanana Gusmão about humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka (also Tetum) (2/09)

• Statement from Timor-Leste Solidarity for the Palestinian People in Gaza (English and Tetum) (1/09)

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

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

• Penentuan nasib sendiri bukan sekedar merdeka secara politis: Perkembangan terbaru di Timor-Leste (10/06)

• Self-determination requires more than political independence: Recent developments in Timor-Leste paper for conference on International Law and the Question of Western Sahara, Netherlands (10/06)

• Status of Forces Agreements for foreign troops and police deployed to Timor-Leste (5/06), plus 2002 agreements with the United Nations and the United States on the status of their forces in Timor-Leste.

• Debate over placing foreign troops in Timor-Leste under UN command (10/06)
  includes statements from La'o Hamutuk, TL NGO Forum, IFET, James Dunn and many UN and RDTL Documents.

• LH Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (6/06)

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

• LHB Transforming FALINTIL into F-FDTL (4/05)

• LHB Editorial: The U.S. Must Respect Iraqi Sovereignty and Global Peace  (3/04)

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

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

• LHB Editorial: No War Against Iraq! (3/03).
  See also report and photos of 15 Feb. 2003 Dili demonstration against the impending war.

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

• LHB Analyzing Australian Military Assistance to Timor-Leste (12/02)

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

• LHB USGET and DynCorp, Inc. (4/02)

• LHB International Responsibility to oppose violence (4/02)

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

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

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

• LHB FALINTIL and the Responsibility of the International Community (6/00)

Land rights

• Fahe Sertifikadu Efeitu Registu Bele Resolve Problema Rai? (also English) (12/11)

• Sumisaun LH nian ba Parlamentu kona-ba esboso Lei ba Rai no Lei Expropriasaun (9/11)

• Surat Popular on Esbosu Lei ba Rai (10/10)

• The draft RDTL Civil Code. Analysis, submissions from LH (also Tetum) and others, drafts and more (English/Tetum) (10/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Agrikultor nia Direitu ba Rai (6 MB Tetum MP3) (7/10)

• Who will get land under the draft transitional Land Law? analysis (5/10)

• Land compensation analysis of draft Real Estate Finance Fund Law (5/10)

• When is it fair for the State to take private land? about draft Expropriation law (also Tetum) (4/10)

• Transitional Land Law index page with links to drafts, analyses and documents (also Tetum)(4/10)

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

• LH submission on transitional Land Law (also Tetum) (10/09)

• 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)

Agriculture

• Valoriza Agrikultor sira-nia Lian no sira-nia Matenek. Relatoriu LH nian Konsultasaun ho Agrikultor-sira (9/11)
  Inklui aprezentasaun no relatoriu tomak and English translation Valuing Farmers' Words and Wisdom.

• Sosiedade Sivil no Movimentu Agrikultor iha Timor-Leste (Tetum/English) (1/11)

• LH: Planu Asaun MAP 2011 vs Agrikultor nia Nesesidade (Timor Post, 12/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Planu Asaun Ministeriu Agrikultura no Pescas (6 MB Tetum MP3) (12/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Dezafiu Agrikultor iha Area Rural (6 MB Tetum MP3) (9/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Agrikultor nia lian kona-ba servisu Ministeriu Agrikultura iha baze (6 MB Tetum MP3) (7/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Agrikultura Organiku (6 MB Tetum MP3) (5/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Loron Luta Agrikultor nian (6 MB Tetum MP3) (4/10)

• LHB: Consolidate La Via Campesina in East & Southeast Asia (6/09)

• Surat Popular Fabrika Ai-oan Mutin iha Carabela (5/09)

• Commentary and documents about five agro-fuels projects, including MOUs and other documents (12/08)

• LHB Jatropha: Jobs for farmers or fuel for foreigners?  (11/08)

• LHB Agrofuels, land rights and agreements (11/08)

• LHB Oecusse Community Activation Program (OCAP) (1/08)

• LHB The Government's Agriculture Program (1/08)

• LHB European Union Rural Development Program (11/05)

• LHB Exchange with Philippines on agrarian reform (4/05)

• LHB Exchange participants return from Cuba on health and agriculture (1/04), Participants launch book on Cuba's experience (12/05)

• Surat Popular: Agriculture

• LHB Coffee in Timor-Leste and the World. Several reports (4/02)

• LHB Editorial: Challenging the Injustice of Coffee (4/02)

• LHB An Assessment of Pilot Agricultural Service Centers in Timor-Leste (2/02)

• LHB Sustainable Agriculture in Timor Lorosa’e (2/02)

• LHB Assessing the World Bank’s Agricultural Project (12/00)

Popular Education and Intercambios

• LHB Exchange with Philippines on agrarian reform (4/05)

• Report from Exchange with Nigeria on petroleum consequences (9/04)

• LHB World Social Forum “Another World is Possible”  (3/04)

• LHB Exchange participants return from Cuba on health and agriculture (1/04), Participants launch book on Cuba's experience (12/05)

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

• LHB Reviving and Reinventing Popular Education (4/02)

• LHB Report from the World Social Forum II (4/02)

• Timor-Leste Network of Popular Educators created (8/01)

• Brazil exchange teaches popular education (7/01)

Solidarity and activism

• Exhibition: Solidarity through the years, 1974-1999 (7/09)

• Celebrate Solidarity Ten Years after the Referendum (6/09)

• LH letter to Xanana Gusmão about humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka (also Tetum) (2/09)

• Statement from Timor-Leste Solidarity for the Palestinian People in Gaza (English and Tetum) (1/09)

• Information about volunteering or working at La'o Hamutuk (7/08)

• IFET Testimony to Alternative Public Hearing against Truth and Friendship Commission (9/07)

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

• Self-determination requires more than political independence: Recent developments in Timor-Leste paper for conference on International Law and the Question of Western Sahara, Netherlands (10/06)

• LHB Cuba solidarity news from India (4/06)

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

• Timor-Leste participates in International Day of Action against the Shwe Gas Project in Burma (10/05)
  LHB article (11/05)

• LHB Tsunami poetry and solidarity (4/05)

• LHB 'Cak' Munir: 1956-2004 (10/04)

• LHB Editorial: The U.S. Must Respect Iraqi Sovereignty and Global Peace  (3/04)

• LHB Dr. Andrew McNaughtan, 1954-2003 (1/04)

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

• LHB Editorial: No War Against Iraq! (3/03). See also report and photos of 15 Feb. 2003 Dili demonstration against the war.

• LHB What do Timor-Leste Activists Want from International Solidarity? (7/02)

• LHB Solidarity and International Justice (10/01)

Other

• LH mid-year report for 2010 (12/10)

• LH Annual Report for 2009 and links to reports from prior years (7/10)

• La'o Hamutuk celebrates our Tenth Anniversary (5/10)

• LHB Cuban support for health in Timor-Leste (8/08)

• LHB: Re-orienting La'o Hamutuk's Approach (9/07)

• LHB Editorial: Parliament, Don't pass greedy pension laws (3/07)

• Positions available at La'o Hamutuk (7/06)

• LHB The ADB Microfinance Development Project (3/03)

• Surat Popular: Microfinance

• LHB Higher Education in Timor-Leste (3/03)

• LHB Special Report on Electricity (8/02)
  LHB UNDP letter on Japan's aid to the Power Sector, and LH Response (12/02)

• LHB Housing crisis (12/00)

• LHB Building a National Health System for Timor-Leste (several articles from different perspectives) (11/00)
  LHB World Health Organization Report on Timor-Leste Health Situation (11/00)

• LHB Oe-cusse’s Continuing Hardships (11/00)

• LHB Protecting Timor-Leste's Environment: Regulation and Enforcement (7/00)

• LHB The Isolation of Oecusse: Local NGOs Pressure UNTAET (7/00)

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