The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste completed its mandate on 31 December 2012. Find out more about the closure in our Fact Sheet and by visiting the Momentum website which pays tribute to the Timorese achievements and marks the departure of UN peacekeepers.
17 Dec 2008 -
Dili, 17 December 2008 - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will tomorrow hand over a vehicle to the national NGO, PRADET. UNFPA has assisted PRADET in its work in providing counselling and shelter to victims of gender-based violence since 2003. The purchase of this vehicle will allow for timely referral of clients to partner organizations in the support services network as well as ensuring that there is follow-up to the cases.
16 Dec 2008 -
Dili, 16 December 2008 - UNMIT's Human Rights and Transitional Justice Section today launched the thematic report on the Right to Food in Timor Leste.
The report examines all the various efforts made by the Government of Timor-Leste, members of the international community and civil society to help realize the right to food for all Timorese.
10 Dec 2008 -
Dili, 10 December 2008 - 10 December is globally celebrated as International Human Rights Day – a day to reflect on the human rights work in the past year, and a day to make renewed commitment to the human rights work that still needs to be completed.
09 Dec 2008 -
Dili, 09 December, 2008 - The Office of the President of the Republic, through the Coordinating Committee for the Reform and Development of the Security Sector, will host a two-day seminar starting on 11 December in the President's Palace in Lahane, Dili. This international seminar is an initiative of President José Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmâo and is supported by the United Nations.
13 Nov 2008 -
Dili, 13 November 2008 - UNMIT is investigating an accident in Dili last night that has injured two people – one critically - after an UNPol vehicle was involved in a traffic incident.
11 Sep 2008 -
Timor- Leste, 11 September 2008 - Over the past four months IOM has helped the Government to facilitate the return and reintegration of 5,930 families previously living in 22 displacement camps in and around the capital Dili as a result of the civil unrest of April and May 2006.