Timor

President of Timor-Leste meets with UN rights chief

15 March 2006
Far from encouraging impunity with a policy of forgiveness for past crimes, Timor-Leste is trying to establish conditions for its people build their future, the young country’s President Xanana Gusmão, said today in Geneva after meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Louis Arbour.

Impoverished Timor-Leste can still reach poverty-reducing goal, says UN report

9 March 2006
Four years after gaining independence, impoverished Timor-Leste, remains one of the world’s least-developed nations but can still reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing poverty by one-third by 2015, according to a United Nations-backed report issued today.