Full Coverage: Timor-Leste

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

15.07.2008 The British government must fulfil its responsibilities to the people of East Timor, following a quarter-century of violence during which the UK supplied arms to Indonesian forces that illegally occupied East Timor until 1999, a Catholic development group said today.

05.05.2008 A peace building and human rights program uses creative and therapeutic learning to help East Timorese heal and move beyond the violence that pervades their young country's history.

12.02.2008 East Timor has declared a state of emergency after attacks on the President and Prime Minister. The country only recently regained stability after a 2006 conflict between security forces consigned tens of thousands of people to refugee camps.

05.02.2008 President Suharto of Indonesia, who died last month, was responsible for the invasion of East Timor in 1975, for its occupation for almost 25 years, for the murder of so many of its people and for the insecure and traumatised state it remains in despite its emergence as a free, new country six years ago.

12.09.2007 The UN has saluted the peaceful elections held recently in the fragile Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, but urged the countryÂ’s citizens and political parties to engage in political dialogue to consolidate the democracy and peace.

10.07.2007 The immediate challenge for Timor-Leste's new government is food shortages affecting a fifth of the population by October as a result of a predicted 30 per cent fall in food production following drought, says an international development charity.

06.10.2006

08.09.2006 UNICEF and a foreign government are helping the children of Lebanon get back to school. Other programs are reaching out to kids in East Timor and Nigeria, while Palestinian kids face teacherless classrooms. Plus, how green is your campus?

07.09.2006 After May's violence that displaced some 15 percent of the population, UNICEF is hoping the new school year will help bring a return to normalcy in Timor-Leste.

17.08.2006 With violence increasing in recent months in Timor-Leste, some observers are calling for a UN peacekeeping effort there. UN discussions and investigations are crucial not only for determining the fate of Timor-Leste, but also the future of UN efforts at nation building, says Arnold Kohen.

27.06.2006 As East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigns, Britain is urged to address past atrocities to East Timorese people under Indonesian rule that are hampering the country's democracy.

15.06.2006 The first day of a measles vaccination campaign in East Timor included 600 children in a camp for people displaced by recent violence.

12.06.2006 The UN has launched an appeal for nearly $19 million in humanitarian assistance to Timor-Leste for those displaced by the civil conflict and violence of the past few weeks.

07.06.2006 Relief supplies are to be distributed to over 60,000 internally displaced people in East Timor, including some 40,000 people in Dili, following the outbreak of violence there.
* Alkatiri agrees to UN investigation

31.05.2006 UN agencies have resumed food distribution to camps in East Timor holding 100,000 displaced people but conditions are worsening due to overcrowding and rain.

25.05.2006 Development work is being jeopardised in East Timor as many flee fighting in the capital, Dili.

10.11.2005 A detailed report looking into human rights violations committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor from 1974 to 1999 has been submitted to Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and will be made public later this month.

20.09.2005 The newly-launched East Timor-Indonesian Commission for Truth and Friendship is flawed because it does not allow for the legal prosecution of those responsible for human rights abuses, say civil society groups.

07.04.2005 Atrocities committed by the Indonesian military in East Timor in 1999 remain unpunished. The terms of reference of a new Commission on Truth and Friendship established jointly by the Indonesia and East Timor governments have been criticised by local NGOs for not contemplating any prosecutions.