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  • Angola to attend CPLP youth meeting 13 May 2008 23:40 GMT
    ... role for the defence and promotion of human rights and for participation of the group at ... Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor and Portugal. - angop ...

  • Angola to Attend CPLP Youth Meeting in Maputo 13 May 2008 17:15 GMT
    ... role for the defence and promotion of human rights and for participation of the group at ... Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor and Portugal. ...

  • Indonesia's appetite for arms grows 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... aid and training because of its military’s human rights abuses and corruption. Jakarta is happy to ... There was also the 1975 invasion of East Timor, the Santa Cruz Massacre in 1991, and much ...

  • In Indonesia, a morality crusade misplaced 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... rate that has few counterparts elsewhere. In East Timor, more than a quarter of the population was ... were indicted by the government itself), investigating human rights violations by the Indonesian military - all ...

  • Man at work: Rudd walks Asian tightrope 13 May 2008 10:52 GMT
    ... airing vocal criticism of the government's controversial human rights record. He thereby heeded calls to openly ... that instability in various Pacific islands, including East Timor, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga and Papua New ...

  • UN: Reject Sri Lanka's Bid for Human Rights Council 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... Elections to the 47-member council, the United Nations’ leading human rights body, will be held in New York ... Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Timor Leste – are running for four seats allocated ...

  • Don't let Games glitz hide the brutal reality 13 May 2008 04:58 GMT
    ... In short, we agree with all the human rights abuses in exactly the same we ignore ... mistakes of Australian support for occupation of East Timor under the cruel TNI. Posted by Shrdlu from ...

  • UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism 13 May 2008 04:52 GMT
    ... it failed to act when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 slaughtering hundreds of thousands in ... It stood by again after the East Timorese voted by referendum for independence in 1999 ...

  • Address by President McAleese, 'Europe in the Coming Times: An Irish Perspective', Humboldt University, Berlin, Tuesday 26th February 2008 13 May 2008 04:51 GMT
    ... Address by President McAleese, 'Europe in the Coming Times: ... issues such as development aid, disarmament and human rights. From the beginning, we felt strongly the ... other states, the first of which is Timor Leste. In the years ahead, the Union has ...

  • Examining the Threats to Indonesia's National Interests 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... the eastern portion of the island of Timor, known as East Timor. The conflict in East Timor culminated in ... a U.N. process to allow the East Timorese to vote on independence. Approximately 98 percent ...

  • ASEAN to form Asian Union? 13 May 2008 04:50 GMT
    ... to democracy, the rule of law and human rights. (ASEAN comprises Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, ... was instrumental in securing Asian peacekeepers for East Timor - Surin agrees that the new charter is "what ...

  • Accountability for Suharto's Crimes Must Not Die With Him 13 May 2008 04:48 GMT
    ... escaping justice for his numerous crimes in East Timor and throughout the Indonesian archipelago. One of the ... his reign. The military continues to violate human rights with impunity and in West Papua and ...

  • Inside Indonesia's War on Terror 13 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... of the war on terror. Years of human rights abuse by the Indonesian military, or TNI, ... was police chief during the carnage in East Timor. He was acquitted of crimes against humanity, one ...

  • West Papua's Cry for Freedom 13 May 2008 04:36 GMT
    ... had always been part of Indonesia whereas, East Timor, of course was not”. Of course, it ... resources at the expense of starving East Timorese. The granting of temporary visas to forty-two ...

  • Might versus right 13 May 2008 04:35 GMT
    ... of practices that deprive Tibetans of fundamental human rights "meant absolutely nothing to Mao" (p139). The ... The International Court of Justice, deliberating on East Timor, interpreted the right as "binding on all states". ...

  • One Finger Cannot Kill a Louse! 13 May 2008 00:16 GMT
    ... to revive the coffee growing industry of East Timor after 20 years of neglect. This program has ... For example, Statoil is supporting courses in human rights for Venezuelan judges in a project organized ...

  • Human rights groups denounce Human Rights Council candidates 13 May 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... Human rights groups denounce Human Rights Council candidates UNITED ... with mixed human rights records - Brazil, East Timor and Burkina Faso. It gave "qualified" ratings to ...

  • How to lose friends 12 May 2008 23:07 GMT
    ... long-term support for the Indonesian genocidists in East Timor, and the Iraq war - which may have ... point the finger at China for so-called human rights abuses when western powers have by far ...

  • Army flags E Timor troop cuts 12 May 2008 21:39 GMT
    ... another cut in Australian troop numbers in East Timor by the end of the year. Lieutenant General ... the first person convicted by a Jakarta human rights court. He was sentenced to three years' ...

  • Stiff security ahead of Nepal´s democratic CA Poll on April 10 12 May 2008 21:19 GMT
    ... strengthen the peace process and to improve human rights situation. Bella Bird, Head of the Department ... in Nepal´s case. Martin´s earlier mission to East Timor was considered a total success by ASEAN and ...


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