Press Releases

  • Timor-Leste Progress in 2008, Situation Calm and Peaceful
    24 Dec 2008 - Dili, 24 December 2008 - There has been some press speculation about a supposed UN report about Timor. As a general rule, we do not comment on internal UN communications either to deny or confirm their existence. However, the Acting SRSG Finn Reske-Nielsen today made the...
  • Transcript of UNMIT Press Conference
    24 Dec 2008 - Transcript of UNMIT Press Conference22 December 2008, 10:30amPNTL Headquarters, Dili, Timor-Leste The following is a near-verbatim transcript of a press conference by Acting Police Commissioner Juan Carlos Arevalo and PNTL Commander Afonso de Jesus. UNPOL Commander Juan Carlos...
  • UNFPA hands over vehicle to PRADET
    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...
  • Fulfilling the Right to Food key to creating stability in Timor-Leste
    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...
  • Human Rights booklet to strengthen F-FDTL
    12 Dec 2008 - Dili, 12 December 2008 - UNMIT welcomed the F-FDTL and Human Rights booklet newly released by the Government of Timor-Leste.
    Aimed at building human rights awareness among F-FDTL members, the booklet was distributed today during the Security Sector Reform...
  • Timor-Leste celebrates Human Rights Day
    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. This year, International...
  • Timor-Leste to host International Seminar on Reform and Development of the Security Sector
    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...
  • UN in Timor-Leste Investigates Serious Traffic Accident in Dili
    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. The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Atul Khare, has sent his sympathy to...
  • Press Briefing 26 September 2008
    07 Oct 2008 - Speakers Marek Michon, Chief of Serious Crimes Investigation Team, UNMIT Longuinhos Monteiro, Prosecutor-General of Timor-Leste Allison Cooper, UNMIT Spokesperson Hipolito Gama, UNMIT Spokesperson This is a near verbatim transcript of UNMIT's weekly press briefing. The...
  • IOM Assists Government in the Return and Reintegration of Displaced Families
    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...

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