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By Kylie McBride, WOW! summer intern

Photographs by Linda Jo Stern/World Neighbors

By volunteering with World Neighbors at headquarters, or making a donation to WOW! you support the holistic, integrated work that World Neighbors does around the world involving education, health and nutrition. We know you join us in believing that all mothers and children deserve the chance to lead a productive life unscarred by hunger and malnutrition. Your contribution will help the women of Timor Leste and others like them have healthier pregnancies, and help children have a greater chance for survival and full development.

 

Resources Utilized in the Preparation of This Brief

We recommend the following resources, a number of which were utilized in the preparation of this issue brief, as good sources for further learning on the subject of food sovereignty, nutrition, and the status of women and children in Timor Leste.

 

The Alola Foundation

http://www.alolafoundation.org/

This foundation was established in 2001 by Timor Leste’s first First Lady, Kirsty Sword Gusmão, to raise awareness of and campaign against the sexual and gender-based violence experienced by women and young girls in Timor Leste. The foundation has grown to provide services and programs in areas such as advocacy, employment, education, maternal and child health and humanitarian assistance.

 

International Center for Transitional Justice. (2006). Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. Chega!

Availble online at http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html

 

Eaton, Tim. (26 August 1999). “Raping the Future.” Mother Jones. Available online at

http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/east_timor/features/women.html?welcome=true

 

UNIFEM’s Women, War, and Peace: A Portal on Women, Peace and Security

http://www.womenwarpeace.org/timor_leste/timor_leste.htm

This subset of UNIFEM is intended to address the lack of consolidated data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls as noted by Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). By no means exhaustive, this portal is a centralized repository of information from a wide variety of sources, with links to reports and data from the UN system to information and analysis from experts, academics, non-governmental organizations and media sources.

 

United Nations. (2004). Fact Sheet on Timor Leste. Available online at

http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/UNMISETlocal/UNMISET/FactandFigures.html

 

United Nations Development Programme. (2006). The Path Out of Poverty: Integrated Rural Development. Timor Leste Human Development Report 2006. Dili, Timor Leste. Available online at http://www.alolafoundation.org/pdf/TIMOR_LESTE_2006_en.pdf

 

U.S. Department of State. (2000). Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. East Timor. Available online at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/index.cfm?docid=688

 

Wandita, Galuh; Karen Campbell-Nelson and Manuela Leong Pereira. “Learning to Engender Reparations in Timor Leste: Reaching Out to Female Victims.” Social Science Research Council. (2006). Avaliable online at http://www.ssrc.org/blog/2006/12/29/what-happened-to-the-women/files/978-0-9790772-0-3-chapter6.pdf

 

Wheeler, Tony. Lonely Planet: East Timor. Hong Kong, China: Colorcraft, Ltd., 2004. 

This book is a good source of basic information about Timor Leste, such as history and the current political situation.

 

Women’s United Nations Report Network

http://www.wurn.com

The Women’s UN Report Program and Network (WURN) is a non-governmental organization created to implement the conclusions and recommendations of the United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women from the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions (E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2). This study is a major, universal, comprehensive U.N. approach to intolerance and discrimination against women based on religion and traditions.

 

World Health Organization: Southeast Asia Regional Office. (2002). Health Profile: Democratic Republic of Timor Leste. Available online at http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Timor_Leste_profile-Timor.pdf

 

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East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

http://www.etan.org/do/whatdo.htm

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) was founded in November 1991 to support genuine self-determination and human rights for the people of East Timor in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1960 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Decolonization, and Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on East Timor. Their primary focus has been to change US foreign policy and raise public awareness to support justice and self-determination and now genuine independence for East Timor and human rights in Indonesia. One aspect of ETAN that is particularly interesting is their focus on women in Timor Leste.

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