News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Dili, 14 October 2009- The Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, received Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmão at UNESCO Headquarters. Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmão is the wife of the first President of Timor-Leste, Mr Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, and current Prime Minister of the country. She established the…

Dili, 20 October 2009- Malaria, a disease without borders, has recently received a boost here in Timor-Leste. Today, with an additional 62 personnel recruited to work in the country's malaria control programme, districts and sub-districts in Timor Leste will now have the resources to tackle this…

Dili, 14 October 2009- at the Office of the Prosecutor-General, four international prosecutors and four international clerks were sworn into office for their one-year assignment in Timor-Leste. These justice actors, from Cape Verde and Portugal, are provided through agreements of cooperation that…

Dili, 12 October 2009 - The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) confirms the death of a United Nations Police Officer from Zambia. We offer our sincere condolences to his family, colleagues and friends: in particular, the Members of the Zambian Police Contingent. Police…

Dili, 9 October 2009- The United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) has seen the media report of the alleged presence of UNMIT staff at the Moon Bar in Dili, Timor-Leste during a raid conducted by the Immigration Police. This is one of a number of locations designated as "off-limits"…

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 enactment of important legislation. Launched ten years after the popular…

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 Rala Xanana Gusmão today presided over the ceremony marking the resumption…

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 fast and flexible disbursement mechanism has already allowed it to make a…

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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 more vulnerable to sexual and gender-based violence. These were revealed…

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 resumption of primary responsibilities for the conduct of police operations by…

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 of Dili. Ten persons, including one woman, were arrested on the suspicion…