Timor

New UN report highlights challenges to ensuring food security in Timor-Leste

16 December 2008
Timor-Leste faces a number of challenges in its quest to ensure that all of its citizens have access to adequate food, such as poor infrastructure connecting villages to local markets, according to a new report by the United Nations mission in the country, known as UNMIT.

Timor-Leste issues UN-backed human rights guide for armed forces

12 December 2008
A booklet that aims to build human rights awareness among the members of the armed forces of the young nation of Timor-Leste was released today and immediately welcomed by the United Nations mission in the country, known as UNMIT.
President José Ramos-Horta returns to Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste making strides in human rights but further efforts needed – UN

21 August 2008
Timor-Leste is making progress in key human rights areas, including adherence to the rule of law, strengthening of the judicial system and addressing past violations, but it needs to do more to consolidate these gains, the United Nations said today.

Security Council lauds Timor-Leste’s response to assassination attempts

19 August 2008
The Security Council today commended Timor-Leste’s Government and public institutions for their quick and effective response in the wake of the February attempts on the lives of the leaders of the tiny nation that the United Nations helped shepherd to independence in 2002.

Five-year development road map agreed by UN and Timor-Leste

8 August 2008
The United Nations and Timor-Leste’s Government have embarked on a five-year programme to reduce poverty, consolidate democracy and provide basic social services for the people of the nation which the UN helped shepherd to independence in 2002.

Timor-Leste: UN mission welcomes truth panel’s findings on rights abuses

7 August 2008
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste today welcomed a recent report on human rights abuses that took place during the country’s bloody struggle for independence in 1999.

Timorese institutions and people show resilience, Secretary-General reports

4 August 2008
Timor-Leste’s institutions and people have shown impressive resilience after the violent attacks in February that almost claimed the life of the country’s President, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in his latest report on the work of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the tiny nation.

Solar energy viable option for Timor-Leste, says UN

15 July 2008
A just concluded three-year pilot project has shown that solar power can be an affordable and sustainable alternative energy source for the people of Timor-Leste, according to a senior United Nations official heading up the programme.

Ban hopes truth panel’s report will foster justice, reconciliation in Timor-Leste

15 July 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the commitment made by the Presidents of Indonesia and Timor-Leste to follow up on the final report of the panel set up to look into the violence that accompanied the latter’s bloody struggle for independence in 1999.

Access to family planning vital for development efforts in Timor-Leste – UN

10 July 2008
Family planning, a human right that allows parents to make informed decisions about the size of their families and to determine the spacing of children, is vital to the overall development of Timor-Leste and to reducing poverty in the tiny nation, United Nations officials said today.