Timor

Security forces in Timor-Leste [File Photo]

Timor-Leste: UN helping to investigate deadly police shooting

30 December 2009
The United Nations today confirmed its participation in the criminal investigation of a deadly shooting allegedly committed by the police in the capital of Timor-Leste, and has called on the people of the nation to respect the law.
UNMIT empowers local police force in, Dili, East Timor [File Photo]

Timor-Leste takes over further security responsibilities from UN

18 December 2009
The United Nations handed over further policing responsibilities to Timor-Leste today as part of the gradual transfer of the security functions it assumed in 2006 after dozens of people were killed and 155,000 others – 15 per cent of the population – were driven from their homes in an eruption of violence in the newly independent country.
Ceremony marking the resumption of primary responsibilities for police operations in Timor-Leste by the PNTL

Timor-Leste police resume control of country's largest district from UN

5 December 2009
The United Nations handed over formal control today of policing operations in the country's largest district of Viqueque to the police of Timor-Leste, part of an ongoing strategy to lessen the UN's direct control over the country's nascent security operations.
Ameerah Haq

Veteran UN humanitarian official to become head of mission in Timor-Leste

2 December 2009
Ameerah Haq of Bangladesh, a veteran United Nations official with wide experience in crisis areas ranging from Afghanistan to Sudan, is to become the top UN representative in Timor-Leste as the small South-East Asian country seeks to consolidate its halting path to stability after gaining independence from Indonesia seven years ago.
A child in Dili, capital of Timor-Leste.

Additional funding helps UN agency feed Timorese schoolchildren

19 October 2009
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed additional support that will enable thousands of children in Timor-Leste to receive meals while attending school.
Timor-Leste's security forces in combined operations [File Photo]

Timorese security forces go unpunished for many rights violations – UN

15 September 2009
Members of the security forces in Timor-Leste accused of human rights abuses still manage to escape justice despite a general strengthening of the judicial system in the South-East Asian nation, according to a United Nations report released today.
PNTL resumes primary policing responsibilities in Manatuto

Timor-Leste police take control of UN-backed training centre

11 September 2009
Timor-Leste’s police force, known as PNTL, has taken over the United Nations-supported police training centre as part of the gradual handover of responsibility by the world body’s peacekeeping mission to local law enforcement officers.
10 years on…. 98.6 per cent of registered voters turned out to vote for the historic ballot on 30 August 1999

Timor-Leste: UN marks ten years since historic vote for independence

4 September 2009
The United Nations mission in Timor-Leste today marked ten years since the historic UN-organized referendum that led to the independence of the South-east Asian nation.
10 years on…. 98.6 per cent of registered voters turned out to vote for the historic ballot on 30 August 1999

Timorese and the UN celebrate and commemorate, a decade after a momentous vote

30 August 2009
Timor-Leste is in festive mode this week. Hundreds of cyclists have criss-crossed the country's rugged and beautiful scenery in the inaugural Tour de Timor. Peace festivals and concerts have been staged in towns and villages. Feasts have been organized. But behind all the celebrations across the tiny nation are darker memories as well.
Bikers at the opening of the Tour-de-Timor

With pedal power, UN staff take part in race to change perceptions about Timor-Leste

24 August 2009
It may lack the glamour or the pedigree of the Tour de France, but the inaugural Tour de Timor – which starts today in the capital, Dili – can probably claim to be a more gruelling race than its storied peer, with potholes, dirt roads, slippery river crossings and uneven off-road routes to unnerve even the most experienced cyclists.