Imajina se karik ita la presiza ona Loron 16 Ativismu atu dada ema nia atensaun ba violénsia bazeia ba jéneru – violasaun direitus umanus ida ne’ebé luan los iha mundu. Imajina se kuandu iha 2030, tinan ultimatu ba Objetivu Dezenvolvimentu Sustentavel no ninia Objetivu alvu 5 ba eliminasaun ba violénsia hasoru feto no labarik feto sira, ita bele komemora terminasaun ba Kampaña ba Loron 16. Imajina iha 25 Novembru (Loron Internasiónal ba Eliminasaun Violénsia Hasoru Feto no Labarik Feto sira) sai hanesan loron ida ne’ebé ita bele selebra ita nia susesu ne’ebé mak halo uma laran, estrada no espasu hotu seguru ba feto no labarik feto sira – la depende ba sira nia tinan, lokalizasaun, abilidade, orientasaun seksuál no identidade jéneru. Imajina se kuandu ativismu kontra diskriminasaun hasoru feto no igualdade jéneru (abut ba violénsia hasoru labarik no labarik feto sira) sai hanesan norma, ho asaun no investimentu ne’ebé bele haree iha loron 365 ba tinan ida nia laran. Imajina se kuandu luta ba feto no labarik feto sira atu goza sira nia direitu atu moris livre husi violénsia sai parte istória, hanesan mos maneira Timor-Leste nia luta ba independénsia mak sai ona hanesan memória husi tempu pasadu.              

Camille Wauters servisu ona ho UN Women dezde 2008. Nia komesa ho servisu iha Nigeria liuhusi programa UN Volunteer hanesan ofisial ba UN Women nia porgrama Empoderamentu Ekonomia ba Feto, depois kontinua fali servisu iha Palestina. Nia servisu ona iha UN Women nia edifisiu iha Timor-Leste husi tinan 2014, ne’ebé nia maneja programa integrasaun jéneru, no depois ba iha programa Feto, Pas no Seguransa. Mai ita rona kona ba Mana Camille nia servisu ho UN Women iha Timor-Leste:

Mesmu iha ona progresu ba asuntu LGBTI nia direitu iha Timor-Leste, diskriminasaun sei nafatin as hasoru komunidade LGBTI sira, iha familia, sociedade no iha servisu fatin. Hatan ba prekupasaun ne’e, organizasaun sociedade sivil no ativista direitu umanu sira kontinua halo advokasia maka’as atu asegura katak komunidade LGBTI sira sei la husik hela iha kotuk.    

Koordenadór Rezidente ONU nian Roy Trivedy ninia perspetiva kona-ba situasaun sosio-ekonómika no dezafiu hirak iha oin mai

“Nasoins Unidas fiar katak, hamutuk ita bele atinje transformasaun ida ne’ebé sei fasilita labarik-feto no labarik-mane, no feto no mane sira, atu realiza sira nia potensialidade tomak no kontribui ba Timor-Leste ida ne’ebé prósperu no la husik hela ema ida iha kotuk.”

JENEBRA – Durante tinan ida-ne'e ita haree ativizmu barak tebes – liuliu husi foin-sa'e sira. Apropriadu duni katak iha tinan ida-ne'e ita marka Loron Direitus Umanus nian durante konferénsia ONU ida ne'ebé importante tebes iha Madrid hodi tane aas justisa klimátika. Ita tenke hato'o agradesimentu boot ba labarik, foin-sa'e no adultu joven tokon ba tokon ne'ebé hamriik no ko’alia sai barak liu no maka'as liu kona-ba krize ne'ebé enfrenta ita-nia planeta.

03 Dezembru 2019, Dili

Loron Munidal SIDA 2019 — Komunidade sira halo Diferensa

Diskursu husi Kordenador Rezidente ONU iha Loron Munidal SIDA 2019

Komesa iha tinan 1988, Loron Mundial SIDA mak loron saúde global uluk liu. Tinan-tinan iha loron 1 fulan dezembru, ema hotu-hotu iha mundu iha oportunidade atu halibur hamutuk iha ita nia luta kontra HIV.

Tinan-tinan, mundu tomak konkorda kona ba tema ida atu uza hodi komemora no halo advokasia ba HIV/SIDA. Ba tinan ida ne’e, tema ba Loron Mundial SIDA 2019 husi Organizasaun Mundial Saude maka, “komunidade sira halo diferensa”.

Tuir OMS, ohin, kada ema na’in 4 husi ema na’in 5 ho HIV mak hetan teste no ema na’in 2 husi 3 mak simu tratamentu: komunidade sira iha papél importante atu hetan susesu ida ne’e.

Husi estimativa, ema millaun 37,9 ne’ebe iha HIV iha mundu iha tinan 2018 nia rohan, 79% hetan dianoza, 62% hetan tratamentu, no 53% mak hetan supresaun hasoru virus HIV ho risku ki’ik atu hetan infesaun foun.

Tuir estimativa ida ikus liu, iha Timor-Leste ema na’in 465 mak moris ho HIV. Estatistikamente, númeru prevalensia ne’e ki’ik maibe tenke vijilante nafatin. Ita tenke servisu nafatin atu hapara moras ne’e hodi daet tan, ita mos tenke halo esforsu atu hatun númeru ne’e ba zero. Ho kuaze 70% husi ita nia populasaun ne’ebe menus husi tinan 35, importante tebes ba ita atu kontinua informa ema kona-ba oinsá prevene moras HIV/SIDA.

Importante mos ba ita atu servisu hamutuk ho komunidade sira hasoru estigma ka persepsaun negativa hasoru HIV/SIDA. Servisu sira ne’ebe organizasaun sira hanesan Estrela Plus, Esperansa, CWS, ho sira seluk halo hela tenke iha komplementaridade no apoiu iha aspetu hotu-hotu posivel.

Ita mos tenke enkoraja pratika sira kona ba seksu seguru liuliu kona ba métodu ABC, kona ba abstinénsia, fidelidade no condom. Evidensia husi mundu tomak hatudu katak, condom ajuda tebetebes iha luta ba eliminasaun infesaun virus HIV. Ita tenke kontinua nafatin iha ita nia esforsu atu uza métodu no pratika sira ne’ebe bazeia ba evidénsia. 

Kontribuidor ida ba susesu iha pais sira seluk mak envolvimentu husi ema rihun ba rihun ho HIV no populasaun xave sira, rede komunitária no pesoál saúde komunitária. Ema sira ne’e barak mak iha HIV.

Hapara epidemia HIV presiza ita nia rekoñesimentu no resposta ba dezafiu sosial sira ne’ebe trava netik grupu marjinalizadu sira atu hetan asesu ba atendimentu hanesan ho ema sira seluk. Ita bele servisu hodi elimina epidemia HIV, husi komunidade ba komunidade ida. Ita tenke mai hamutuk ho sira seluk atu koñese oinsá prevene HIV, apoia ema sira ho HIV, no hanoin hikas fali ema sira ne’ebe lakon sira nia vida tanba SIDA.

Envolvimentu husi komunidade no sosiedade sivíl tenke nafatin sai estratéjia xave atu aumenta atendimentu saúde. Ativismo ho asaun sosiedade sivíl nian mak sai ona nudár rekursu xave iha resposta hasoru HIV husi inísiu kedas, hodi inspira komunidade saúde global no konsolida esforsu atu aumenta ekuidade, respeita direitus ba saúde no direitus humanus, no inovasaun sientifika.

Loron Mundial Saude 2019 oferese oportunidade ida atu tradus ita nia kompromisu ba asaun, hodi asegura katak ita hotu selebra no aselera papel komunidade sira nian no progresu saúde iha HIV.

Ian Martin addresses Parliament of Timor-Leste on the 20th anniversary of the Popular Consultation in Timor-Leste

Speech by Ian Martin

Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres and former head of UNAMET

Excellencies

President of the National Parliament of Timor-Leste, Araão Noé da Costa Amaral

President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, em representing the the President of the Republic of Portugal

The Honourable Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Charlot Salwai

Prime Minister, General Taur Matan Ruak

President of the Court of Appeal, Dr. Deolindo dos Santos

Former Presidents of the Republic, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão and Dr. José Ramos-Horta

Former Prime Minister, Dr. Mari Alkatiri

Members of Government

Members of Parliament

Members of the Diplomatic Corps

Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests

People of Timor-Leste,

It is a great privilege for me to represent the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, at the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Popular Consultation, including before the National Parliament today. You know how important was his personal role as Prime Minister of Portugal in 1999 and for many years before that, and you can count on his strong commitment as head of the UN to maintaining its support to Timor-Leste today.

I must begin by remembering with you those who are sadly no longer with us: Secretary-General Kofi Annan; his Personal Representative for East Timor, Jamsheed Marker; and Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative and head of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor, UNTAET. You have honoured and mourned each of them in turn.

Happily two people are here today whose outstanding contribution to the UN’s role in East Timor can still be honoured in person: Francesc Vendrell, Deputy Personal Representative for East Timor in 1999, who had worked with the highest principle for your self-determination during preceding decades; along with his close collaborator, Tamrat Samuel, who came to Dili as UN observer at the trial of Xanana Gusmão in 1993, and carried out his testimony to the world.

Allow me also to regard myself as representing all those who have served the United Nations here in Timor-Leste over the past twenty years and those who do so now. This includes UNTAET and the succeeding peace operations, as well as the agencies, funds and programmes which continue to support Timor-Leste, represented here by the UN Resident Coordinator, Roy Trivedy. And in particular I can speak for the staff of the United Nations Mission in East Timor, UNAMET. Some of the international staff members who came from all around the world in 1999 have returned to join the anniversary celebrations, and to meet again with our national staff.

International staff of UNAMET who have worked in missions in other countries will tell you that UNAMET was an exceptional mission. Sometimes it seemed an impossible mission, to organize the ballot in only three months, in difficult terrain, and amidst many threats and much actual violence. But what made it exceptional was the closeness of our personnel in all the sub-districts to the Timorese people and their courage.  And we could never have carried out our mission without our Timorese staff: they were the ones who faced the greatest threats, during the Popular Consultation and even more after the ballot, when they were targeted in the violence that followed.

I ask you to recognize the Timorese staff of UNAMET as among your national heroes and heroines. And to remember especially today, as the UN did yesterday, the fourteen of our staff who were killed or disappeared.

But it was not UNAMET that brought independence to Timor-Leste. We only implemented a process of self-determination for which so many had struggled for so long. The first words to me of Xanana Gusmão when I met him in his prison house in Jakarta on my way to raise the UN flag in Dili were: “We have been waiting for the United Nations for 24 years.” The member states of the UN were not allowed to forget East Timor’s right to self-determination because of the strength and sacrifice of Timorese inside and outside East Timor – of those who became fighters and those who became diplomats, of the clandestine movement and students, of men and women, young and old – who kept up the struggle under remarkable leaders. Crucial too was the support for that struggle of international civil society, which reached its highest moment in 1999.

It is a great pleasure to return to a country at peace, and in friendship with its neighbours. The spirit of 1999 was an extraordinary unity of purpose among those who overcame previous divisions to make real East Timor’s claim to self-determination. I hope this celebration will help that spirit to be understood by generations too young to have experienced it directly, and that independent Timor-Leste will draw upon that spirit as it meets its current and future challenges.

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Words and pictures: Helio Miguel de Araujo (UN Women Timor-Leste)

The President of Timor-Leste’s Parliament pledges to persons living with disabilities for more inclusion in the State Budget allocation.

The President of Parliament, Arão Noé Amaral, re-affirmed the Parliament’s commitment to the rights of persons living with disabilities and pledged to assess the possibility of developing a parliamentary resolution on the rights of persons with disabilities. This commitment was shared during a seminar on how to better include disability in the 2020 State Budget organized on 13 June with organizations of persons with disabilities, Parliamentarians, Government representatives, gender equality advocates and other partners, under the joint UN project Empower for Change. Notably, the President of Parliament also said he would invite the Government to submit a proposal for ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

“Government has the obligation to protect persons with disabilities and not to exclude them from development programming and planning,” Mr. Amaral said. 

People living with disabilities are one of the groups most ''left behind'' in Timor-Leste. For example, seventy-two percent of people living with disabilities in Timor-Leste have not attended school, with girls with disabilities more likely to be out of school compared to boys with disabilities (Census 2015). Stigma, discrimination and limited availability of inclusive services are among the causes of this exclusion. Timor-Leste has not yet ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This remains a key aspiration and priority of people living with disabilities in Timor-Leste.                                                                                                                              

Mr. Cesario da Silva, Director of the Association of Persons with Disabilities in Timor-Leste (ADTL), has experienced and observed discrimination and violence in his community. “The voices of persons with disabilities will be stronger if we have the support of a wide range of people, especially from those at the highest levels of the State,” Mr. da Silva said.

During the seminar, several key government members, officials and Members of Parliament presented ideas to better include persons with disabilities.

Her Excellency Signi Chandrawati Verdial, Vice-Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion said her Ministry is establishing a new National Directorate on Disability.  

Her Excellency Maria Gorumali Barreto, President of Parliamentary ''Committee F'' of Education, Health, Social Security and Gender Equality said the Committee’s door is open for people living with disabilities.

''We are keen on continuing the collaboration and to hear more about the concerns of women, men and children living with disabilities.”     

Anjet Lanting, on behalf of the United Nations team in Timor-Leste, spoke about how to include disability in legislation, policy and planning. Ms. Lanting commended Timor-Leste for recognizing inclusion as the key for sustainable development in the future.

''Including disability is the right and just thing to do.''          

Ms. Lanting presented data which showed how including people with disabilities has economic benefits for the country.

''Everyone can acquire a disability in their lives, so it is in everyone’s interest to work toward better inclusion, with additional responsibilities for those in positions of authority to make this a reality,'' she said.    

Mr. Fernando da Costa, a representative from Oxfam, acknowledged the progress that has been made by the government to date, but also urged for more work to be done. 

“These days we have seen a number of potential persons with disabilities and we must create an inclusive budget to invest in their capacity so they can also contribute to sustainable development,” Mr. da Costa said.

At the end of the seminar, participants signed a declaration for the ''Protection and Promotion of Persons living with a Disability,'' for submission to Parliament.      

The seminar was organized by Committee F and the Women’s Parliamentary Caucus (GMPTL), jointly with the ADTL and made possible with the support from the Joint United Nations Initiative Empower for Change under the UN Partnership for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Oxfam Timor-Leste. 

To learn more about disability and the work of the United Nations on disability rights in Timor-Leste:  

• https://www.un.org.tl/en/component/jdownloads/category/8-human-rights?Itemid=-1%20-https://www.un.org.tl/en/component/jdownloads/download/14-english/32-young-people-with-a-disability
• https://www.facebook.com/asosiasaundefisiensiatimorleste/
• https://timoragora.blogspot.com/2016/05/asosiasaun-defisiensia-timor-leste-adtl.html

Message from UN in Timor-Leste

On World Humanitarian Day, August 19

Roy Trivedy

Resident Coordinator

As part of humanitarian operations, across the world, women are playing very important roles. They are protecting and improving lives in many communities, families and individuals.

They are supporting people in times of natural disasters, conflicts and civil strife. They are working in peace building operations as well as other key roles as experts, providers and carers.

Here in Timor-Leste, we were once again reminded of the vital role that women aid workers play, when we commemorated the deaths of Timorese staff serving the UN during the Popular Consultation in 1999, at the grave of Ana Xavier da Conceicao Lemos ‘’Bui-Mesak’’.

Ana Lemos was killed in 1999 by the militia. She was a pro-independence activist who told her son, Rivelino, in her last words to him, that “..sometimes you have to be prepared to sacrifice for the people you love.”

When she was kidnapped, she was a polling station official, who worked for the UNAMET.

Many women have made sacrifices to help build stronger community’s – often being away from their families; putting themselves at risk of injury or disease; giving up education and career opportunities.

They are our nurses, teachers, doctors, disaster responders,  community workers, local leaders etc.. Women in Timor-Leste responding to events like the 2015 drought, earthquakes, tsunamis and disease outbreaks, as well as dealing with personal violence and conflicts. Women make up a large number of those who risk their own lives to save others. They are often the first to respond and the last to leave.

The United Nations in Timor-Leste has many real-life stories to tell about women on the front line, and we honor them all today.

 We also call on all development partners to ensure women on the front line are supported and protected, kept safe from harm, and to continue to work to strengthen the role of women in aid and humanitarian operations worldwide.