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Jan 26 Financial Times: East Timor
demands oil money [News: Timor Gap]
"They [Australia] should say to ET, here's the oil, it's yours, take
it," Jose Ramos Horta
Jan 24 GLW: Digging in for East Timor's
oil [Article: Timor Gap]
"The federal government has refused to reveal its position [on Timor
Gap] publicly, claiming this would counter the "national interest". The
reason behind its reluctance seems to be the fear of a public backlash
against a policy that would result in ET being denied desperately needed
revenue while Canberra's coffers filled." Jon Land
Jan 24 GLW: Women face uphill struggle
[Article: Transition]
"Aurora Ximenes, the coordinator of the ET Women's Network, which comprises
15 grassroots organisations, is angry that women are being sidelined in
the transition to independence." Robyn Marshall
Jan 24 GLW: `Fretilin will win first Timor election' [News: Transition]
Jan 23 AGE: Commission for Reception,
Truth and Reconciliation [News: Crimes]
"The commission was originally proposed by ET and is now being developed
with the support of the UN, which is working alongside ETimorese groups,
the Catholic church and the umbrella independence body, the CNRT."
Mark Dodd
Jan 20 TimLang: Feelings of East Timorese who have never left ET towards 'returnees' [Article: Transition]
Jan 17 IPS: Reconstruction an
uphill climb [News: Reconstruction]
"UNTAET figures say that oilfields around ET could bring in $100 to
$200 million a year in revenues. There are some "hundreds of millions of
barrels equivalent of oil and gas already being exploited" in the Timor
Gap, according to ETTA. For a country with a budget of less than $80 million
a year, that means a whole lot." Johanna Son
Jan 15 MSF: Refugees in Indonesia
under-reported [Release: Crimes]
"hundreds of thousands of ETimorese remain trapped in West Timor after
fleeing organized militia attacks in the wake of ET's vote for independence."
MSF
Jan 15 Nation: East Timor journalists
rise from the ashes [News: Transition]
"Some 150 journalists gathered for three days last week at the headquarters
of the CNRT and vowed to build up an
independent and free press including ways to become honest and professional
journalists." Kavi Chongkittavorn
Jan 15 IPS: Road to Nationhood neither Straight nor Short [News: Transition]
Portuguese:
Jan 12 OTL: O petróleo
do Mar de Timor e as relações Timor Leste-Austrália
[Report: Timor Gap]
"A História recente da atitude do Governo australiano revela
que o petróleo do Mar de Timor foi colocado acima de qualquer outra
consideração nas relações com os países
vizinhos. A Austrália poderia beneficiar mais dum desenvolvimento
harmonioso da região, tentando chamar a si os investimentos pelos
quais está melhor preparada que os seus vizinhos." OTL
Jan 11 FPIF: U.S. - East Timor
Foreign Policy in Focus Brief [Release: Military]
"The U.S. has declined to provide full support for an international
human rights tribunal that would examine the abuses and killings (in East
Timor) ... [but the Pentagon] has persisted in advocating military assistance
to Indonesia, even when this has meant exploiting loopholes in legislation
enacted to end military aid," Lynn Fredriksson,
FPIF
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17 LHB: Building a National Health System for East Timor
[Feature: Health]
"the lack of significant inclusion of local businesses
and organizations in the construction of health centers is a manifestation
of a larger problem: the marginalization of local interests in the development
of the national health sector." LHB
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* Urgent
Actions: Donations of Money
Until Feb 14 OPMT/AFAP: Funds needed to ship
container of Sewing Materials from Sydney to Dili
There has been a splendid response from Canberra
women of all ages to the OPMT call for sewing materials and equipment,
to be forwarded to the women of East Timor. AFAP is now appealing for donations
towards the container shipping costs.
* Things
you can do: Fair Trading
Dec 18 CAAT:
Re-build ET coffee economy - Buy Fair Trade Coffee!
April 2000 New Internationalist Online Magazine:
Theme - Fair Trade
* Things
to avoid:
Dec 27 SMH: East Timor says no thanks to thongs,
teddies
Dec 12 NTEU: Put
books for East Timor Uni on hold
Dec 9 Age: Gifts to Timor stranded by army
Dec 3 OPMT: Please DO NOT mail Sewing Materials
to Australian Forces PO!
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Canberra Events at:
http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/ACTEvents.htm
Refugee Action Committee Meeting
Amnesty International endorsed event.
Refugee Action.
Australian National University, Moran Building, room G009
Thursday 1 February at 6.30pm more
'The Great Turning: choosing a life sustaining future'
Marie Jamieson and Gerry Jacobson
ANU - Centre for Continuing Education - Summer 2001 Program
10 am - 6 pm Saturday 24 February more
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BACK DOOR supports
human rights accountability, return of refugees,
strengthening of
indigenous culture, participatory democratic
self-determination
for the East Timorese people and people-centred grassroots
power-devolving
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