The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste completed its mandate on 31 December 2012. The establishment of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) was preceded by a number of other UN operations or missions deployed in Timor-Leste beginning in 1999.
Dili, 15 September 2009- In a public report released in Dili today, the United Nations noted that in the past year, Timor-Leste made progress in key human rights areas, including strengthening of the judicial system and…
Dili, 11 September 2009– The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor- Leste (SRSG) Atul Khare and Fransisco Guterres the Secretary of State for Security on behalf of Prime Minister Kay…
Dili, 8 September 2009 - Timor-Leste, the South-East Asia Region's youngest nation, has announced that it will make a contribution to the World Health Organization's (WHO) unique million dollar health emergency fund, whose…
Dili, 25 August 2009 - We hope that everyone will be a winner in this race for peace," said President José Ramos-Horta yesterday at the opening of the Tour-de-Timor, a multi-stage bicycle race open to Timorese and…
Dili, 20 August 2009 - Today marks the 34th anniversary of the formation of the Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste (FALINTIL)- translated in English as The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East…
Dili, 13 August 2009 - Tradition, culture of silence, domination and inequality, ignorance of rights, the lack of law, weakness of the judiciary system, as well as economic dependence are among the key factors that make women…
The UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) is one of 11 UN missions participating in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign. Led by Community Police officers from the…
Manatuto, 25 July 2009 – Today the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste (SRSG) Atul Khare and Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão presided over the ceremony marking the…
Editorial In the fourth edition of SCIT we are pleased to publish an interview with the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal, Dr. Claudio Ximenes, where he offers a keen explanation of the role of the judge, of the courts and…
Dili, 07 July, 2009 - Ahead of the presentation of Timor-Leste's Initial State Report to the Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a preparatory Mock Session was…
Dili, 6 July, 2009 - On Wednesday, 2 July 2009 at 5pm United Nations Police (UNPOL) and the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) jointly carried out an anti-human trafficking operation at a bar in the Marconi neighborhood…