REDE FETO TIMOR LESTE

Statement Rede Feto iha Timor Leste Donor Meeting, 7 Abril 2010

2010-04-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

Presentation Rede Feto Timor Leste in the Timor Leste Donors Meeting

Introduction

Rede Feto Timor Leste is a national network for 24 women’s organizations who are connecting, informing, and supporting people and organizations to improve the lives of women and girls, and advance gender equality and women’s rights for sustainable development in Timor Leste.

On September 5 2009, Rede Feto spearheaded the conduct of the 3^rd National Women’s Congress. The output was a Platform of Action of issues that concerns women. There were 7 thematic issues such as: Education, Health, Justice, Cultural, Economy, Media and Politic.

We would like to express our appreciation to the government of Timor-Leste for its efforts to promote gender equality and awareness of women’s rights within Timor-Leste. Specifically we acknowledge the increased number of enrolments of women in higher education, although we must also recognize that many women are forced to drop out of high school because of pregnancy.

Concerning health issues, we recognize and warmly support the efforts by the government to address the high maternal mortality rate in Timor-Leste.

We appreciate the government’s support for upholding the quota for women’s participation in parliament and public sector, however we acknowledge the need to encourage women in rural areas so that they can take a more active role as decision makers.

We appreciate the government’s efforts to promote increased access to credit, small business development for women and women as entrepreneurs but we encourage government to strengthen its efforts in rural areas where opportunities are still very limited.

We also appreciate the government’s programs to provide pension support for elderly people, scholarships for children of widows and its strenuous efforts to respond to the problems of internally displaced people.

Rede Feto would like to highlight the priority issues that we hope the donor community will consider in preparing their development assistance for Timor Leste.

Law and justice: PNTL and F-FDTL are institutions established to uphold law and order. We are sad to observe the involvement of PNTL in violating the statutes it is intended to uphold. The main victims of mistreatment are women and youth. Use of force should be the last choice yet it appears that PNTL is not yet able to interpret its function well. There is a sense that they cover up issues that might damage their image. There are also cases where PNTL is involved in protecting the interests of family members and this is affecting people’s sense that PNTL ‘belongs to’ the people. PNTL are not open to criticism, or to recognize and repair their mistakes. We urge the government to invest in in-depth training that will help them to fulfill their role in upholding law and introduce them to national and international laws protecting the rights of women, children and citizens; and commence psychological testing for new recruits. Using guns should be a last choice in dealing with the community, who are their own people.

Trafficking: There is still a lack of attention from the government and donor community to address human trafficking in Timor-Leste. There is no law to regulate this issue, even though reality shows that there is internal trafficking from rural areas to Dili and international trafficking into Timor-Leste. This is a difficult problem to investigate because of weak immigration controls and the networks to support these activities are strong. Victims of trafficking are existing in massage parlours and karaoke clubs in residential areas. This has an impact upon the local community. We are calling for attention from the local authorities, including immigration authorities, to pay serious attention to these issues by coordinating with civil society to conduct research into this issue, strengthening prevention programs and providing rehabilitation programs. We call for the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Tourism, Commerce and Industry to consider the social impact to the community before providing a license for a company to operate.

Corruption: Rede Feto congratulates and welcomes the creation of creation of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Timor-Leste. We acknowledge the government’s significant efforts in combating corruption by establishing an office under the Vice-Prime Minister to prepare an anti-corruption strategy. We also acknowledge the creation of the position of the Inspector General for dealing with this issue. However we see that they face a lack of human and other resources to investigate cases and many cases are still pending in the Prosecutor General’s office due to this. We are calling on the government to show their political will and provide assistance and resources that will allow these offices to respond quickly; and to strengthen these organizations so that they can carry out their duties without political interference and in an independent manner.

Women and Labour: Until today in Timor-Leste there is no law in existence to protect workers other than the Labour Code which is quite sensitive to the needs to women in the workplace, for instance in maternity leave, annual leave, support for breastfeeding mothers. However we have not seen any implementation of these regulations yet. Women do not have equal payment to men and their contracts are insecure. Many women face sexual harassment in the workplace. Many women do not receive maternity leave and are forced to resign when they are pregnant. We encourage government to monitor and follow-up seriously the implementation of the Labour Code and we urge government to adopt the ILO Convention 111 concerning fair remuneration for women. Conduct research to have exact data on these issues and take necessary action against private companies that do not comply with the regulations of the Labour Code.

CEDAW implementation: Timor-Leste ratified the Convention on Ending all forms of Discrimination Against Women in 2002. In 2009, the government of Timor-Leste sent a report to the CEDAW Committee and civil society sent a Shadow Report to the committee. At the moment parliament is in the process of ratifying the Domestic Violence Law. This will give a lot of support to domestic violence victims. National government is the main actor with responsibilities for implementing all aspects of CEDAW, however we are sad to see that this is not yet reflected in national planning and budgeting issues. For example, in the distribution of funds for civil society from the Prime Minister’s office, women’s organizations received very little support. In the execution of programs within the Ministry of Infrastructure there is no evidence of support and consultation or involving women in their programs. We also urge the government to strengthen support for women with disabilities and the many women who care for people with disabilities by signing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Finally, we call for the attention from the international organizations and the donors to look at the issues mentioned above in their program design and implementation, and to make sure that women are consulted and that their needs are included.

“As women, we want to contribute our thinking and idea for the development of our country. We have a dream that Timor Leste will have justice, peace, security and equality “

Dili, April 2010

Rede Feto Timor-Leste

Note : Attach the Platform of Action (POA) from Women Congress.

REDE FETO HALO KAMPANHA 16 DIAS KONTRA VIOLENSIA IHA DISTRITU ERMERA NO MANATUTO

2009-12-04T00:27:00.000-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste/ 04 Dezembru 2009

Atu bele komemora kampanha 16 aktivismu kontra violensia hasoru feto, Rede Feto Timor Leste sei organiza atividade diskusaun publiku iha ivel distrital. Rede Feto hanesan organizasaun subrinha ba organizasaun feto 18 iha Timor Leste sei halo diskusaun publiku iha distritu Ermera no Manatuto ho konvida parte sosiedade hotu-hotu bele partisipa iha atividade ida ne’e.

Ita hotu-hotu hatene, durante loron 16 komesa dia 25 Novembru too dia 10 Desembru, nasaun hotu-hotu atu atividade oin-oin atu bele haberan informasaun no hametin komunidade sira atu bele kombate violensia kontra feto. Loron aktivismu ida ne’e hahu husi loron 25 Novembru ne’ebe mundu konese hanesan Loron Internasional Eliminasaun Violensia Kontra Feto. Ba tinan 2009, atividade kampanha Rede Feto nian foti tema hanesan “ Feto no Mane Iha Komitmentu Forte atu Hakotu Violensia”.

Atividade kampanha loron rua ne’e sei realiza iha distritu :

DISTRITU ERMERA

Kuarta feira, 9 de Dezembru 2009

Fatin iha Aula Administrasaun Distrital Gleno

Oras 08.30 too remata

DISTRITU MANATUTO

Kuarta feira, 10 de Dezembru 2009

Fatin iha Aula Centru Juventude Manatuto

Oras 08.30 too remata

Programa :

Abertura husi Administrasaun Distritu

Aprezentasaun husi Direitora Rede Feto kona-ba Direitu Feto no Igualdade

Apresentasaun husi Assosiasaun Mane Kontra Violensia (AMKV) kona-ba Violensia baseia ba Jeneru no Kampanha Hapara Violensia iha Timor Leste.

Diskusaun ho komunidade

Taka

Ba informasaun klaru bele kontaktu ba :

Sekretariadu Rede Feto, Rua Bispo de Madeiros, Mascarinhas Dili (Univ. Undil nia Sorin)
Telf : 3317405, Email : redefeto@yahoo.com, Informasaun kona-ba programa ida ne’e bele haree iha ami nia webblog : www.redefeto.blogspot.com

FETO MOS IHA DIREITU BA SAUDE REPRODUKTIVA (Parte 2 remata)

2009-12-01T00:03:00.001-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste/Loron AIDS Mundial-1 Dezembru 2009

Tamba Sa Maka Feto Sai Vulnerável Liu ba Virus HIV/SIDA?

Husi resultadu peskiza ne’ebe Organizasaun Mundial ba Kombate Moras HIV/SIDA (UNAIDS) halo hatudu katak iha duni relasaun forte entre violensia hasoru feto no moras HIV/SIDA ne’ebe hadaet lais liu-liu ba feto sira. Feto hanesan sexu fraku ida kompara ho mane la iha poder/forsa boot ida atu bele rejeita bainhira sira nia laen hakarak halo relasaun seksual inklui halo relasaun seksual ho violensia oin-oin. Faktor ida ne’e mos sai hanesan kauza ida katak feto risku duni ba moras HIV/SIDA. Iha tempu hanesan, feto barak mos ladun hetan asesu informasaun ne’ebe diak no lolos kona-ba moras ida ne’e rasik.

Disigualdade no injutisa jeneru halo feto maluk sira la bele hili sira nia futuru, la bele hili sira nia laen, la bele hili bainhira sira bele kaben, oinsa sira bele halo relasaun seksual no la iha poder atu bele halo relasaun seksual ne’ebe seguru. Iha sektor ekonomia, feto mos hetan diskriminasaun boot tamba sira laiha kbiit ekonomia no halo feto sira depende deit ba sira nia laen atu bele sustenta sira nia familia. Kondisaun ida ne’e halo feto nia posisaun fraku tebes no seidauk aumenta ho faktus ne’ebe iha katak feto barak unalfabetu, laiha asesu ba informasaun, nivel edukasaun ne’ebe minimu liu inklui mos sistema lei nian ne’ebe ladun fo apoio ba feto sira. Faktus sira ne’e halo feto hetan risku boot ba moras HIV/AIDS.

Moras HIV/SIDA No Violensia Hasou Feto

Asaun atau bele hapara moras HIV/SIDA sai ona isue internasional ida. Iha nasaun barak, aktivista feto no direitus humanus sira tau ona isu ida ne’e sai hanesan parte intregadu ida husi kampanha loron 16 eliminasaun violensia kontra feto. Aktivista sira hanoin katak iha relasaun forte entre violensia hasoru feto no moras HIV/SIDA ne’ebe hadaet lalais.

Tuir Konvensaun CEDAW nian ne’ebe Estadu Timor Leste ratifika hateten katak Governo Timor Leste iha obrigasaun atu garantia feto nian direitu inklui feto nia direitu iha area saude repruduktiva. Artigu 12.1 Konvensaun CEDAW hateten katak estadu membru tenke hola medida hotu-hotu ne’ebe lolos atu halakon diskriminasaun kontra feto iha area kuidadu kona-ba saude atu nune garantia asesu ba serbisu kuidadu ba saude nune’e mos asesu ba planu familiar ne’ebe tenke baseia ba feto no mane nia igualdade. Artigu ida ne’e haforsa tan ho rekomendasaun jeral husi Konvensaun CEDAW numeru 24 pontu 5 ne’ebe deklara katak sirkunsizaun ba feto, virus HIV/SIDA, feto aleijada sira, violensia hasoru feto no iguladade iha relasaun familiar nudar parte intregadu ida reasiona ho obediensia ba artigu 12 konvensaun CEDAW nian.

Estatutu feto iha area saude ida ne’e mos haforte tan liu husi Deklarasaun Beijing 1995ne’ebe obriga nasaun hotu hotu atu bele implementa rekomendasaun husi deklarasaun ida ne’e. Iha sektor feto no saude, Deklarasaun Beijing mos hateten klaru katak nasun ne’ebe asina deklarasaun ida ne’e tenke foti asaun ne’ebe sensitive ba jeneru atu bele kombate moras HIV/AIDS nomos problema saude seksual no reproduktiva.

Saida Maka Ita Bele Halo?

Haré ba realidade katak numeru ema positivu virus HIV/SIDA iha Timor Leste komesa aumenta, ne’e duni presiza halo asaun preventiva atu bele hamenus número hirak ne’e liu husi programa integrada. Instituisaun hotu tenke involve iha laran inklui mos sosiedade sivil no familia rasik tamba problema moras ida ne’e laos deit problema governo nia deit maibe problema ita hotu. Iha parte ida, faktus hatudu mai ita katak ema barak ladun hetan informasaun kona-ba moras ida ne’e liu-liu ba feto sira. Iha parte seluk, ita mos la bele taka matan ba atividade prostituisaun ne’ebe buras iha kapital Timor Leste no fatin seluk. Hanesan linha ida husi virus HIV/SIDA bele hadaet ba ema seluk, problema prostituisaun tenke resolve lalais liu husi fo poder ba policia atu bele halao operasaun konjunta atu bele hapara atividade ilegal ida ne’e.

Governo mos tenke halao mekanismu ne’ebe diak atu bele prevene Timor Leste husi prostituisaun liu-liu prevene nasaun ida ne’e husi “invasaun” feto prostituta internasional ne’ebe diskonfia bele lori virus HIV/SIDA tama liu husi transaksaun seksual. Iha parte ida ne’e, diresaun Polisia Imigrasaun kaer funsaun importante atu bele prevene Timor Leste husi prostituisaun no trafiking Umano. Governo mos tenke tau matan ba Timor oan balun ne’ebe involve iha bisnis ida ne’e para ema hirak ne’e bele hetan kapasitasaun ruma ou serbisu ruma no muda sira nia atividade hanesan feto prostituta.

Governo mos tenke prepara fatin tratamentu ida atu bele trata ema sira ne’e positivu virus HIV/SIDA no garantia sira nia direitu. Ba asesu publiku, governo liu husi Ministeriu Saude tenke mos prepara fatin publiku ida atu ema hotu bele halo testu ba moras ida ne’e. Iha parte justisa, Tribunal tenke fo sansaun aas ba kazu prostituisaun nian para ema ne’ebe sai autor ba atividade ilegal ida ne’e la bele repete hahalok a’at ida ne’e. Presiza mos lei ida atu bele regula no fo sansaun ba ema no groupu ne’ebe involve iha laran nomos fo rahabilitasaun ema ne’ebe sai autor prostituisaun. Nesisidade ida ne’e hanesan obrigasaun estadu Timor leste nian baseia ba Konvensaun CEDAW artigu 6 , estadu membru sei foti medidas hotu-hotu ne’ebe loos hanesan legislasaun ka halo lei atu kontra makas forma oin-oin kona-ba trafiku ba feto no esplorasaun protituisaun ba feto sira.

Bainhira instituisaun hirak ne’e la bele halo sira nia knaar ho diak maka sosiedade bele la fiar ba sira nia funsaun tamba kondisaun ida ne’e bele haburas prostituisaun iha rai laran no destrui mentalidade sosiedade Timor Leste nian liu-liu familia sira.

Atu bele kombate moras ida ne’e, presiza mos fahe informasaun ba nivel sosiedade hotu-hotu liu-liu ba sira ne’ebe hetan risku boot liu ba moras ida ne’e. Ba familia sira mos, tenke hamoris respeita malu entre laen no nia fen. Laen sira tenke respeita direitu saude reproduktiva sira nia fen, halo relasaun seksual ne’ebe seguru no la usa violensia. (RFTL/ICP Office/Cop09)***

FETO MOS IHA DIREITU BA SAUDE REPRODUKTIVA ( Parte1)

2009-11-30T23:59:00.000-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste/ Loron AIDS Mundial - 1 Dezembru 2009

Kada tinan iha loron 1 Dezembru, mundu tomak komemora Loron Aids Internasional. Loron ida ne’e hanesan loron ida atu bele kombate moras HIV/AIDS. Durante tinan barak, moras ida ne’e sai ona ameasa boot ba komunidade mundu hotu no halo ema rihun ba rihun mate. Lideransa husi nasaun hotu-hotu mos fo prioridade ba impaktu husi moras ida ne’e tamba laos deit daet ba ema ne’ebe hetan risku boot maibe daet ona ba ema seluk la iha risku hanesan donna da casa sira.

Iha tinan 2008, ema besik 33,4 milloen positivu moras HIV/SIDA. Husi numeru ida ne’e, persentasaun feto moris ho virus HIV/SIDA barak liu kompara mane. Virus HIV/SIDA bele hadaet ba ema liuhusi dalan oin-oin hanesan relasaun seksual ne’ebé la seguru, daet husi inan isin rua ne’ebe pozitivu HIV/SIDA ba nia bebé iha nia isin no ikus mai wainhira labarik ne’e moris, nia bebe mos pozitivu virus HIV/SIDA. Iha parte seluk, virus HIV/SIDA mos bele hadaet liu husi daun sona nian/jarum suntik. Virus HIV/SIDA bele daet ba malu liu husi transfuzaun raan husi ema ne’ebé pozitivu HIV/SIDA ba ema seluk.

Tuir estatístika Ministério Saúde nian hateten katak komesa tinan 2002 too tinan 2009 kazu AIDS/SIDA aumenta bebeik. Agora ema ne’ebe positivu HIV/SIDA ho total ema nain 120. Husi total ida ne’e ema nain 17 mate ona. Iha tinan 2008 de'it, tui dadus husi Ministeriu Saude rejista ona ema hamutuk nain 500 husi distritu ne’ebe deferensia hanesan Maliana total 41 mane 10 feto 31, Suai total 17 mane 13 no feto 4, Maubisse total 9 mane 8 no feto 1, Oecusse total 44 mane 32 no feto 12, no distritu seluk ne’ebe la temi total hamutuk 321 feto 77 hetan ona tes ran katak positivu hetan moras HIV/SIDA.

Sei ita kompara ho tinan 2004 ne’ebe iha deit ema nain 24 positivu HIV/SIDA maka durante tinan 5 numeru ema ne’ebe positivu HIV/SIDA aumenta too ema nain 100. Kada tinan maizemenus ema nain 20 hetan positivu moras HIV/SIDA. Iha fatin la hanesan, Daniel Marcal nudar Direitur husi organizassaun sosiedade sivil hanesan Church World Service (CWS), esplikasaun katak iha estimasaun ema 5.000 resin maka hetan ona moras HIV/SIDA iha Timor Leste.

Tamba Saida Moras Ida ne’e Aumenta Bebeik ?

Timor Leste hanesan nasaun independensia mos hetan impaktu negativu husi mundu global liu-liu husi ema internasional barak serbisu iha nasaun ida ne’e. Atividade prostituisaun ne’ebe barak akontese iha kapital Timor Leste mos hanesan kauza ida tamba sa moras HIV/SIDA aumenta bebeik. Husi dadus ne’ebe iha, moras HIV/SIDA daet barak liu husi relasaun seksual ne’ebe la seguru.

Ema internasional barak ne’ebe serbisu iha Timor Leste inklui osan dollar Americano ne’ebe sirkula iha nasaun ida ne’e halo prostituisaun sai hanesan area serbisu ida bele hetan dollar lalais. Kondisaun ida ne’e halao feto prostituta husi nasaun seluk mai no serbisu iha area ida ne’e. Husi peskiza Fundasaun Alola iha tinan 2004 kona-ba atividade prostitusaun iha Timor Leste hateten katak ema estranjeiru nain 148 husi nasaun 6 hanesan Indonesia, China, Filipina, Thailandia no Australia serbisu hanesan feto prostituta iha Timor Leste. Iha relatorio ida ne’e mos hatete katak feto Timor nain 100 mos involve iha bisnis a’at ida ne’e. Area prostitusaun hanesan area ida perigozu ida ba feto prostituta sira tamba sira bele hetan violensia oin-oin husi sira nia kliente inklui mos bele hetan moras HIV/SIDA tamba halo relasaun seksual la seguru. Hahalok a’at mane sira ne’ebe gosta ba fatin prostituisaun mos halo moras ida ne’e daet lalais ba ema seluk.

Problema prostituisaun ne’e mosu iha ita nia sosedade barak tamba razaun ekonomia. Kondisaun ekonomia Timor Leste ne’ebe sei fraku halo ema barak liu-liu ema sira moris iha fatin rural hetan limitasaun atu bele sustenta sira nia moris. Kondisaun ida ne’e aumenta tan ho sira nia inkapasidade no hare ba faktores fiziku ne’ebe fraku liu kompara ho mane. Tiur peskiza Fundasaun Alola nian iha tinan 2004, prostituisaun mosu barak tamba razaun ekonomia no violensia baseia de jeneru. Iha Timor Leste, fatin barak sai ona imajina a’at iha sosiedade nia laran hanesan fatin protituisaun lokal. Fatin sira ne’e mos bele sai fatin ida atu moras HIV/SIDA bele hadaet ba ema seluk bainhira estadu la halo kontrola ba atividade ilegal ida ne’e. Estadu Timor Leste liu husi instituisaun sira ne’be iha responsibilidade ba combate moras HIV/SIDA tenke proaktiva para moras ida ne’e la bele estraga ita nia sosiedade no ita nia futuru. (continua ba parte 2)

FETO HETAN DEIT 2,262 % IHA ELEISAUN XEFE SUKU 2009

2009-11-25T21:11:00.000-08:00

Dili – Timor Leste / Rede Feto Timor Leste / 26 Novembru 2009

Depois Eleisaun Lideransa Komunitaria (ELK) halao iha dia 9 Outobru 2009, Komisaun Nasional ba Eleisaun hatoo resultadu sira hetan ba Tribunal Rekursu atu bele hetan legalizasaun inklui mos hetan desizaun ba reklamasaun ne’ebe tama ba CNE. Maski durante prosesu eleisaun rasik, STAE hetan problema barak maibe ita bele dehan eleisaun ne’e lao ho diak.

Depois CNE hatoo sira nia resultadu Eleisaun Lideransa Komunitaria ba Tribunal rekursu, iha loron 18 fulan Novembru 2009 Tribunal ne’e fo sai kona-ba sira nia desizaun final ba Eleisaun Lideransa Komunitarian. Beseia resultadu ida ne’e, Tribunal Rekursu hatoo lista kandidatu Xefe Suku sira eleitu ho total 441 kandidatu. Tribunal Rekursu mos fo sira nia desizaun final relasiona ho problema ne’ebe akontese iha suku Raimea – Covalima ne’ebe entre kandidatu Domingus dos Reis no Jorge Pereira hetan resultau hanesan. Ba kazu ida ne’e Tribunal desidi halo eleisaun segunda iha Suku Raimea, Sub Distritu Zumalai, Distritu Covalima baseia ba artigu 33, 34 no artigu 35 husi Lei 3/2009.

Husi lista kandidatu Xefe Suku ne’ebe Tribunal Rekursu fo sai, husi total 442 suku ne’ebe iha, kandidata feto sira manan deit iha suku 10. Maski persentace ne’e kiik maibe lideransa feto iha nivel suku aumenta feto nain 2 kompara Eleisaun Xefe Suku 2004/2005. Durante prosesu kampanha, kandidata feto ho total 42 halao sira nia programa kampanha ida-idak atu bele manan eleisaun. Ikus mai kandidata feto nain 10 deit maka eleitu iha loron 9 fulan Outobru 2009. Ida ne’e hatudu mai ita katak feto hanesan sexo maoria iha Timor Leste seidauk fo apoiu total ba kandidata feto sira ne’ebe kompete iha eleisaun. Husi resultadu ida ne’e ita hatene katak feto hetan deit 2,262 % kompara ho kandidata mane sira ne’ebe hetan 97,738 %.

Kandidatu feto ne’ebe eleitu atu tuur hanesan xefe suku hanesan :

Cristalina Quintao (suku Railako leten / sub disritu Railaco / Distritu Ermera)
Filomena Soares (suku Fahisau / Sub Distritu Lequidoe / Aileu)
Fransisca Monica F. Soares (Soba / Sub Distritu Laga / Distritu Baucau),
Terezinha de Deus dos Reis (Bucoli / Sub Distritu Baucau / Distritu Baucau),
Maria Lidia de Jesus (Gariuai / Sub Distritu Baucau / Distritu Baucau),
Maria dos Carmo da’Sa (Suku Triloca / Sub Distritu Baucau / Distritu Baucau)
Joana M. Da Fonseca P. (Suku Afalocai / Sub Distritu Uatocarbau / Distritu Viqueque)
Rita Monteiro (Suku Liaruca / Sub Distritu Ossu / Distritu Viqueqeu),
Maria Soares de Jesus Sousa (Suku Ritabou / Sub Distritu Maliana / Distritu Maliana)
Maria Fatima (Suku Maudemo / Sub Distritu Tilomar / Distritu Covalima)

***(RFTL-icp09)

PROMOVE FETO ATINJI IGUALDADE JENERU

2009-11-24T18:13:00.000-08:00

Dili, Timor Leste / Timor Post, Kuarta 25 Novembru 2009/ p-12/Mj7

Vise Primeiru Ministru Jose Luis Guterres hateten Timor Leste tenke iha dever moral hodi partisipa iha kampanha ba komemorasaun Loron 16 Ativismu Kontra Violensia ba Jeneru ba Feto iha mundu tomak ne’ebe ratifika ona iha Konvensaun Jenebra.

“Timor Leste hanesan nasaun foun ne’ebe ratifika konvensaun ne’ebe kolia kona-ba diskriminasaun kontra feto. Timor Leste iha dever moral atu komemora mos loron ida ne’e hodi nune’e bele promove liutan feto atu bele atinji igualdade jeneru no halakon formas hotu hotu kontra feto iha nasaun ida ne’e, “ dehan Vise PM Jose Luis ba jurnalista iha ninia serbisu fatin Palacio do Governo, Tersa horisehik (24/11).

Rekomendasaun ne’ebe nia hato’o hodi husu povo Timor Leste tomak atu partisipa iha kampanha ba komemorasaun refere. Nia informa katak hahu husi tinan 1991 ema rihun ba rihun husi rejiaun hotu-hotu iha mundu tomak hola parte iha Kampanha Loron 16 Ativismu Kontra Violensia ba Feto.

Tuir nia, violensia direitus humanus sai nudar palavras de ordem husi movimentu feto nian no presiza atu rekonese tamba violensia hasoru feto afeita ba populasaun barak husi pais, rasa, klase, kultura no relijiaun hotu-hotu.

Kampanha Loron 16, katak Jose luis fo opurtunidade ba ema hotu-hotu atu serbisu hamutuk iha solidaridade no dada atensaun durante periodo international atu hetan suporta ba sira nia enforsu lokal atu halakon violensia baseia ba jeneru ne’ebe kompostu husi nasaun 158.

Vise Primeiru Ministru hatutan idea atu organiza kampanha ida ne’e mosu iha 1991 reprezentante nain 23 husi mudu tomak sorumutuk iha Women Global Leadership Institute (Institute Lideransa Global Feto nian) ne’ebe organiza iha Universidade Rutgers, Estadus Unidus Amerika desidi atu organiza kampanha komesa husi loron 25 Novembru ne’ebe hanesan loron internasional kontra violensia hasoru feto too loron 10 fulan Dezembru ne’ebe hanesan loron Internasional Direitus Humanus, tamba durante periode ne’e iha loron barak mak importante.*(ICP)

MAI ITA HARII DAME NO HAKOTUK VIOLENSIA

2009-11-19T21:22:00.000-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste/Rede Feto/Kampanha 16 Dias aktivismu Violensia Kontra Feto

Violensia barak liu akontese ba sira ne’ebe iha posisaun fraku hanesan feto no labarik sira. Iha Timor Leste nia istoria, violensia hasoru feto laos foin akontese depois ita ukun a’an maibe akontese iha vida moris feto nian desde tempo beiala sira too ohin loron. Komesa tempo liurai sira too tempo ukun an feto sira sai vitima nafatin husi hahalok violensia iha forma oin-oin hanesan violensia seksual, violensia domestika no seluk-seluk tan. Violensia domestika katak hahalok hotu hotu /ida nebe deit akontese iha familia ida nia laran ho forma la justu hodi provoka direitamente ka indireitamente ofende ka halao terus ema nia isin lolon, mental ka seksual ho finalidade hodi hatauk ema seluk nian.

Iha tempo ukun an, maski lei barak aplika ona atu bele protégé feto nia direito maibe violensia kontra feto akontese nafatin. Iha dadus hirak ne’ebe tama iha Vurneravel Person Unit (VPU) Polisia Nasional Timor Leste, hateten katak tinan-tinan kazu violensia hasoru feto sempre sai kazu a’as liu kompara kazu sira seluk. Ida ne’e hatudu faktor seguransa ba feto nia moris liu-liu moris iha uma kain seidauk garantia feto nia direitu. Uma kain hanesan fatin seguru ida atu bele eduka oan sira ho domin realidade sai fali fatin haburas hahalok violensia. Autor sira ne’ebe maioria mane uza sira nia poder hanesan xefe familia para hatudu sira nia dominante atu bele kontrola uma laran no dalaruma uza sira nia emosaun. Violensia ida ne’e barak resulta ema vurnerabel sira iha uma laran sai vitima hanesan feto, labarik, ferik, katuas no ema ne’ebe aliezadu.

Violensia ne’ebe akontese iha uma laran barak relasiona ho kultural patriakal ne’ebe sei metin no buras iha ita nia sosiedade. Kultural ida ne’e rasik moris husi jerasaun ida ba jerasaun seluk liuhusi praktika uma laran nian. Kondisaun ida ne’e sai ona kultural ida ne’ebe too ohin loron moris nafatin iha ita nia sosiedade. Maibe violensia laos akontese iha familia hotu-hotu iha Timor Leste, familia barak sei kaer metin komitmentu atu la bele usa violasaun durante eduka sira nia oan no moris iha uma laran. Husi familia ida ne’e maka bele hamoris domin, haree feto, labarik, ferik no katuas sira hanesan parseiru moris nian. Tamba ne’e aspeitu mane hanesan faktores importante ida atu bele kria familia kontra violensia, halo sira nia responsibilidade hanesan xefe familia baseia ba domin nian. Ho ida ne’e ita bele espera katak mane bele sira responsibilidade hanesan xefe familia ho kalma, tau matan ba sira nia fen no oan nomos eduka nia familia ho domin.

Hare ba kondisaun kultura violensia ne’ebe sei maka’as iha Timor Leste halao ema barak mehi atu bele moris iha kondisaun hakmatek nia laran no dook husi violensia. Ita laos la bele hakotuk sistema patriakal ho violensia ida ne’e, tamba kultural mosu husi atividade moris sosiedade nian no sosiedade mos bele hili no hakotuk kultural saida deit fo impaktu negativu iha ita nia sosiedade nia laran liu-liu fo impaktu a’at ida ba feto no labark sira. Sosiedade maka ita, tamba ne’e atu halo mudansa ba kultural ne’e presiza ita hotu nia partisipasaun no kolaborasaun. Kontribuisaun husi parte hotu-hotu importante para ita iha forsa boot ida atu bele kolia ho liafuan ida deit maka “HAPARA VIOLENSIA KONTRA FETO, AGORA”.

Iha iventu espesial Kampanha 16 dias aAktivismu Violensia Kontra Feto ida ne’e, Rede Feto hakarak konvida ita hotu feto ka mane atu bele fo kontibuisaun hari dame iha ita nia nasaun liuhusi asaun konkritu ida iha ita nia familia, komunidade no nasaun. Mai ita harii dame no hapara violensia hotu-hotu, mai ita harii kultural domin ida iha Timor Leste.

Dala ida tan ami husu feto sira bele hateten sai violensia sira hetan, la bele tau problema ne’e hanesan problema privadu ida. Violensia kontra feto hanesan violasaun direitus humanus ida no tuir Kodeku Penal Timor Leste nian, violasaun kontra feto hanesan krimi publiku ida. Mai ita fo liman ba balu hakotuk violensia hasoru feto. (Icp/cop)***

RAMOS HORTA; ITA HADOMI MALU BA

2009-11-17T15:52:00.000-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste / CJITL Flash, 18 Novembru 2009

Prezidente Republika, Jose Ramos Horta husu ba povu Timor Leste tomak atu hadomi malu no simu malu iha Loron Toleransia Internasional ne’ebe monu iha Segunda semana ne’e (16/11).

Loron Toleransia Internasional ne’ebe proklama tiha ona husi Assembleia - Jeral Nosoes Unidas iha tinan 1993 no konhesidu iha mundu tomak hahu iha tinan 1995. “Loron Toleransia Internasional, Oportunidade ida atu fo hanoin liu-liu ba joven sira, mane no feto sira”, dehan eis ativista timor leste liu husi komunikadu imprensa, Segunda semana ne’e.

Liu husi komunikadu ne’e Horta esplika katak Timor-Leste mos tenki selebra no halo tuir buat foun ba kontrusaun nasaun pasifika ida ne’ebe demokratika no prosperiedade. Tanba aktu hirak ne’e bele halakon violensia no halakon marjinalizasaun hodi fo importansia ne’ebe boot ba kiak no fo espasu ba jerasaun ida.

“Se mak terus ba violensia, no hetan marjinalizasaun no kiak durante tinan ba tinan, ohin bele sai nudar ezemplu ba toleransia pas nian no vontade no ben estar nian” tuir komunikadu ne’e. Timor-Leste sei sai bo’ot no diak liu sekarik ita hatene harmoniza no integra iha sosiedade hanesan iha alin feton no maun sira. Iha mundu persiza fo tulun ba malu, hahalok ne’e lori husi ita nia moris loron-loron, no ita nia fiar no kultura nudar portador ba ispiritu no motivasaun.(*,dsc,cjitl)

FETO MORIS HUSI LUTA IDA HAMUTUK HO MANE NO SEI KONTINUA NAFATIN BA OIN

2009-11-05T17:00:00.000-08:00

Aldei Mota Ikun Liquica-Timor Leste, 3 Novembru 2009/ Rede Feto Timor Leste

Loron feto Timor Leste ne’ebe monu iha dia 3 Novembru sai hanesan loron istoriku ida ba nasaun Timor Leste liu-liu ba feto maluk sira. Iha loron ida ne’e, feto hatudu duni sira nia dignidade no forsa atu bele hamrik hanesan mane sira maski iha funu laran. Sira fo aten brani fo sira nia vida atu bele harii no defende nasaun para futuru jerasaun bele goza liberdade no halao dezenvolvimentu iha rai kiik ida ne’e. Maski hetan limitasaun barak, feto ho laran luan simu ona responsibilidade hanesan mane sira iha area hotu-hotu. Iha politika, feto barak komesa hatudu sira nia matenek no responsibilidade atu bele lori nasaun ida ne’e ba dezenvonvimentu iha igualdade nia laran. Feto barak mos partisipa ativu atu dezenvolve nasaun ida ne’e liu husi programa governo nia. Iha area agrikultura no ekonomiku, feto sai hanesan parte importante ida atu bele fornese hahan ba populasaun. Feto barak mos involve iha negosiu maski maoria iha nivel kiik. Durante luta ba libertasaun feto bele kaer kilat hanesan mane no agora feto bele mos kaer posisaun xave iha area hotu hotu atu bele lori nasaun Timor Leste ba oin.

Rede Feto hanesan organizasaun sumbrinha ba organizasaun feto 18 fo ona valoriza aas liu ba loron ida ne’e. Tinan–tinan hahu husi 2005, Rede Feto organiza sira nia membru tomak atu bele selebra loron konsagra ida ne’e ho objetivu atu bele refleta fila fali feto nia luta iha tempo pasadu no uza espiritu ida ne’e atu bele kombate problema ne’ebe feto maluk sira infrenta. Ohin laos tempu luta liu husi forsa armada maibe ohin hanesan tempu ba ita atu bele luta husi feto nia problema hanesan disigualdade, diskriminasaun no violensia liu husi asaun konkritu. Ba komemorasaun Loron Feto Timor Leste ba dala lima iha tinan 2009, Rede Feto organiza nia membru atu bele komemora loron ida ne’e ho tema “Feto Mane Serbisu Hamutuk ba Dezenvolvimentu Nasional”. Ho apoio husi Gabinete Premeiru Ministru - Assesoria Para a Sosiedade Sivil, Rede Feto organiza selebrasaun ida ne’e iha Aldeia Mota Ikun, Suku Mota Ulun, Sub distritu Bazartete – Liquisa no konvida ulun boot sira hodi bele partisipa hamutuk ho populasaun refere.

Aldeia Mota Ikun, suku Mota Ulun hanesan aldeia ida ho total populasaun besik ema nain 600. Maski populasaun sira hela besik estrada internasional Timor Leste – Indonesia maibe la garante sira nia livre husi problema. Durante tinan barak sira hahu husi tempu Indonesia, populasaun iha Aldeia Mota Ikun infrenta problema bee mos. Laos populasaun sira la bele hetan be’e, bee posu ne’e barak maibe bainhira sira hemu sira la hemu be’e mos maibe tasi be’en, hanesan populasaun iha ne’eba esplika.

“Iha area oan ida ne’e susar atu bele hetan be’e mos, ami dehan hanesan ne’e laos tamba be’e iha ne’e laiha, be’e ne’e barak, be’e posu ne’e barak teb-tebes, mas ita la hemu fali be’e mos maibe tasi be’en. Iha uma oin sempre iha be’e posu maibe ita la hemu be’e ida maibe be’e tasi, ami presiza liu maka mak ne’e deit be’e mos,” haktuir populasaun Aldeia Mota Ikun.

Kondisaun ida ne’e mos fo impaktu ba populasaun nia ekonomia tamba sira la bele uza sira nia rai hodi produz hahan no buka moris husi area agrikultura. Populasaun iha ne’eba mos susar atu bele hetan osan ba sustenta sira nia familia. Labarik barak la bele kontinua sira nia edukasaun tamba inan aman la iha osan para esforsa labarik sira ba eskola nafatin.

“Ami nia moris loron-loron hanesan deit, hanesan ami feto ami esforsa an ke’e hotu fatuk para hodi bele han no trata ami nia oan ba eskola, para ami nia oan sai husi eskola ne’e barak tamba la iha esforsa osan para dudu sira sai matenek

ba labarik sira atu bele matenek mos,” haktuir populasaun husi Aldeia Mota ikun.

Haree ba kondisaun ida ne’e, Rede Feto hamutuk Asosiasaun Mane Kontra Violensia (AMKV) organiza diskusaun ida entre populasaun Suku Mota Ulun ho Ministeriu Saude no Governo Lokal para bele loke klean liu-tan problema iha suku refere no buka solusaun ba problema ne’ebe suku refere infrenta. Diskusaun ne’ebe halao iha dia 3 fulan-Novembru ne’e hetan partisipasaun husi komunidade Suku Mota Ulun, Administrador Distrital Liquica, representante Xefe Suku, direitor Saude Distritu Liquica, organizasaun lokal no nasional, representante husi NAGAAD-Somaliland nomos membrus husi Rede Feto. Iha loron istoriku ida ne’e, Senhora Madalena Hanjam nudar Vice Ministra Saude mos fo nia tempu atu bele hasoru no kolia ho komunidade iha fatin refere hamutuk ho nia equipa tomak.

Iha seremonia ne’e, komisaun organizadora hatoo istoria kona-ba Maria Tapo depois loke abertura husi representante Xefe Suku Mota Ulun. Maski loron manas, partisipante maizumenus besik atus ida kontinua nafatin rona liafuan husi ulun boot sira. Senhora Yasinta Lujina nudar Direitora Rede Feto husu ba komunidade ne’ebe ohin loon mai iha fatin diskusaun bele habelar informasaun ba maluk sira seluk.

Nia mos haforsa liu-tan objetivu halao diskusaun iha aldeia Mota Ikun no esplika klean liu-tan kona-ba loron 3 Novembru no luta feto nian.

“Ohin loron ami hakarak mai too iha ne’e hamutuk ho komunidade iha suku Mota Ulun atu bele haree hamutuk ita nia kondisaun. Oinsa ami bele ajuda fasilita ho nain ulun sira iha ita nia governo, atu sira bele mos mai iha ne’e kolia direitamente ho ita boot sira no ita boot sira bele hatoo direitamente saida maka ita boot sente relasiona ho kondisaun moris nian. Situasaun hanesan ne’e laos akontese iha ne’e maibe mos akontese iha fatin seluk, ba kondisaun ida ne’e ami la bele halo buat barak maibe ho kolaborasaun ho komunidade iha ne’e hamutuk ho ita nia governo bele ajuda halo buat ruma ba ita nia povo sira,” dehan direitora Rede Feto durante hatoo liafuan ba komunidade sira.

Iha fatin seluk, Lionel Martin nudar Administrador Distrital Liquica mos haksolok ba atividade ida ne’e tamba organizasaun feto bele selebra loron 3 Novembru iha Distritu Liquica. Nia nudar Sekretaris Zona Bobobaro iha tempu luta mos hatoo istoria badak ida kona-ba Maria Tapo.

“Ami haksolok kontente teb-tebes tamba realmente organizasaun feto bele halibur an ita hotu iha fatin ida ne’e atu hodi selebra loron boot loron 3 Novembru, loron feto nasional ba Timor Leste. Foin dadaun ita rona mos istoria kona-ba Maria Tapo, loos duni tamba iha tempu ne’eba hau hanesan Sekretaris Zona Bobonaro no Maria Tapo mate duni iha zona ami nia laran. Ohin loron, nia naran temi iha istoria sempre fo moris no fo koragem ba feto atu bele organiza an nafatin hodi defende nafatin nasaun ida ne’e i dignidade feto ninian katak feto moris husi luta ida hamutuk ho mane too oras ne’e dadaun no sei kontinua nafatin ba oin,” esplika nia.

Iha sesaun ikus, partispante sira rona deskursu husi Vise Ministra Saude Madalena Hanjam relasaun ho komemorasaun loron feto Timor no kondisaun saude populasaun nia. Nia esplika katak komunidade la bele hein estadu hodi fakar osan mai sira maibe sira tenke halo, kuda rai ne’ebe iha ho ubas no kuda buat hotu-hotu. Feto tenke habokur rai depois husi rai fornese fali ba feto sira maibe feto la bele mesak, feto no mane tenke serbisu hamutuk. Iha sorin seluk, Vise Ministra mos esplika kona-ba programa Ministeriu Saude nian.

“Governo nia responsibilidade sei tuir ministeriu ida ida atu monta sira nia sistema. Ami nia Ministeriu Saude iha ospital boot ida, ita bele liga ho nasaun sira seluk, ita bele liga ho ospital iha distritu, ita iha tan ona Health Post, loke SISCA, no iha tan kareta klinika mobile ne’ebe sei tau iha distritu ida-ida. Kareta ne’e bele ajuda inan isin rua sira hahoris iha laran, bele mos too uma, ami hola tan kuda,” esplika Vise Ministra.

Nia mos hatutan katak agora governu iha Pakote Referendum. Ba pakote ida ne’e, Miniteriu Saude tau pakote atus ida (100) para atu dada be’e ba Sentru Saude sira. Nia mos esplika katak feto agora nia funu maka funu ba atu dezenvolve. Governo Timor Leste tau ona liafuan dehan adeus konflitu benvindu dezenvolvimentu. Bainhira atu remata ninia deskursu, Vize Ministra Madalena Hanjam mos esplika katak feto tenke hetan aopio husi sira nia familia atu bele forte liu-tan.

“Kuandu feto maka forte duni, ita bele dehan ne’e feto agora ne’e jender duni mas tenke iha dukungan (apoio) husi familia, maka bele halo feto no mane sai forte. Hau haluha atu hatoo fali ita nia hakarak ba Konselhu Ministru no ministru hotu hotu,” esplika nia.

Selebrasaun ida ne’e taka ho liafuan husi representante Xefe Suku nian no vizita ba komunidade iha aldeia Mota Ikun.(ICP)***

FETO TENKE BRANI NAFATIN

2009-11-03T19:41:00.001-08:00

Dili, Timor Leste / Timor Post 4 Nov 2009

Relasiona ho Loron Nasional ba Feto Timor Leste sira nian ne’ebe monu iha dia 3 Novembru, deputada iha Parlamentu Nasional fo parabens no husu feto sira iha rai ida ne’e atu hamrik metin no brani hodi fo sira nia kontribuisaun ba dezenvolvimentu nasional.

Sira mos dehan loron nasional ne’e mos sai hanesan loron refleksaun ida ba feto sira hodi hanoin kontribuisaun ne’ebe maka feto sira fo ba rai ida ne’e.

Xefe Bankada Fretelin, Aniceto Guterres hateten loron horisehik hanesan loron espesial ida ba feto TL hodi hanoin fila ba saudoso feto Timor ne’ebe fo kontribuisaun maka’as ba rai ida ne’e.

“Loron 3 Novembru hanesan loron sepesial ida ba inan-feto Timor Leste hodi hanoin fila ba Saudoso Maria Tapo nia mate, ne’ebe fo kontribuisaun maka’as ba luta naruk rai doben ida ne’e,” dehan Aniceto iha uma fukun Parlamentu Nasional.

“Loron espesial atu ita hanoin fila fali kontribuisaun ne’ebe maka feto Timor Leste luta ba rai ida ne’e, ne’ebe hari nanis ona iha 1975 husi Comite Central Fretelin no Organizasaun Popular Mulher de Timor (OPMT),” dehan tan Aniceto.

Tuir nia katak feto hanesan perseiru ba dezenvolvimentu iha direitu hanesan mane hodi fo dedikasaun no kontribuisaun ba dezenvolvimentu rai ida ne’e. Tamba nia hateten feto sira tenki kontinua hamrik metin hodi involve diak liu-tan iha prosesu dezenvolvimentu nasional.

“Komemorasaun ida ne’e hanesan fanu feto Timor atu hamrik metin liu-tan no organiza diak liu-tan hodi fo kontribuisaun ba rai ida ne’e maske feto maluk iha area rurais sei moris iha mukit no kiak nia laran maibe sira (Fretelin) sei hamrik fo aspirasaun liu-husi sira nia bankada iha Parlamentu Nasional, “ dehan nia.

Entertantu Xefe Bankada Kota Dr. Manuel Tilman fo hanoin katak ho loron nasional ba feto Timor Leste, nia parte husu atu la bele lori feto nia naran sai projeitu deit maibe tenki tau mos atensaun ba feto sira iha area rurais.

“Hau hanoin loron ida ne’e loron espesial ba feto Timor Leste maibe ho loron hanesan ne’e tenki hanoin mos feto sira ne’ebe moris iha area rurais ne’ebe la bele hodi foti feto nia naran hodi halo projeitu deit, “ dehan deputadu Manuel Tilman.

Maibe nia mos la haluha ho komemorasaun horisehik ne’e nia fo nia parabens ba feto hotu-hotu iha Timor Leste atu bele iha esperansa nafatin hodi fo kontribuisaun ba rai ida ne’e.

“Ho loron ida ne’e mos hau la haluha fo hau nia parabens ba inan feto sira iha area rurais sira nomos ita Timor oan hotu hodi hanoin fali ita nia saudozo feto sira ne’ebe mate ona i feto sira ne’ebe agora fo nafatin sira nia kontribuisaun ba rai ida ne’e,” dehan nia. (TP 4 Nov 2009/Ono)***

PREZIDENTE JOSE RAMOS HORTA FO HOMENAJEM BA LUTA FETO TIMOR LESTE

2009-11-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

Dili-Timor Leste/Timor Post 4 Novembru 2009,

Prezidente Republika Jose Ramos Horta fo homenajem ba luta ne’ebe feto Timor Leste sira halao durante tempu naruk nia laran hahu husi tempu resistensia hasoru okupasuan Indonesia mai too agora hodi fo sira nia kontribuisaun ba enterese nasaun nian.

Horta dehan tamba hakarak fo kontribuisaun maka’as ba luta ba independensia, feto barak maka tenki mate no simu violasaun oin-oin.

“Hau nia homenajem ba feto Timor-Leste liu-liu ba feto sira ne’ebe fo kontribuisaun maka’s tebes ba ita nia luta, sira barak mate, simu violasaun oin-oin no tortura. Maibe to’o ohin loron feto Timor-Leste sei forte nafatin,” informa Prezidente Horta ba jurnalista sira tersa (03/11) iha Aeroporto International Nikolau Lobato, Dili hafoin fila husi vizita ba Republika Korea.

PR Horta dehan politika nasional tenki kontinua fo oputunidade ba feto sira atu nune’e sira mos bele partisipa maximu iha prosesu dezenvolvimentu nasaun nian maske durante ne’e feto sira iha opurtunidade barak hoi fo kontribuisaun.

Nia hateten partisipasaun feto sira iha prosesu dezenvolvimentu liu-liu iha areia legislativu no ezekutivu, Timor-Leste iha valor diak uitoan ho nasaun sira seluk.

Xefe Estadu informa katak durante nia halo vizita iha Korea, nia informa ba estadu iha ne’eba katak numeru feto sira iha Timor-Leste ne’ebe maka partisipa iha governu, parlamentu no judisiario nia kuaze too porsentu 30.

“Hafoin fila-fali ba kotuk hatudu katak ita konsege halo duni balansu ida liu husi matenek ne’ebe iha ita bele manan fatin poder legislativu, ezekutivu no judisiariu hatudu influensia maka’as. Maibe enforsu tenki halao liu-tan atu labarik feto sira bele iha opurtunidade hanesan mane hodi ontinua ba eskola. Tamba dala barak kuandu iha opurtunidade sempre fo liu ba mane duke feto,” dehan nia.

Entertantu iha fatin ketak, Prezidente da Republika Jose Ramos Horta deklara katak feto tenki partisipa maka’as iha Eleisaun Municipiu ne’ebe maka sei realiza iha tinan oin mai hodi nune’e bele okupa orgaun municipiu.

Horta hateten katak iha Eleisaun Municipiu pelomenus iha 30% feto mak involve iha orgaun municipiu.

“Tamba feto hatudu sira nia kualidade serbisu, sira nia sensibilidade no sakrifisiu,” deklara Xefe Estadu ne’e iha ninia deskursu bainhira partisipa iha seremonia Loron Nasional ba Feto iha Palacio Governo horisehik.

Baseia ba esperiensia ne’ebe iha, PR Horta dehan hahu husi tinan 1975, mane sira mak halo politika. Tan ne’e iha ukun an ida ne’e hotu-hotu tenke enforsu an hodi fo apoio ba feto atu partisipa maka’as liu-tan iha vida politika.

“Ita tenke halo esforsu para hare’e oinsa feto sira partisipa liu-tan iha nivel municipiu, nasional, iha parlamentu, governu para ho mane kontribui ba halo dezenvolvimentu, hametin dame estabilidade iha nasaun laran,” espera nia.

Nia dehan katak, iha Eleisaun Xefe Suku foin lalais ne’e, husi total suku 400 resin, feto 10 deit maka sai Xefe Suku.

“Diak liu uitoan eleisaun (suku) uluk, maibe ita hare’e Suku 400 resin, feto (sai Xefe Suku) 10 deit,” deklara Horta.

Maske nune’e, Horta dehan katak Timor Leste presiza orguilu tamba bainhira kompara ho rai bar-barak iha mundu, partisipasaun feto iha Timor-Leste iha governo no parlamentu diak liu.

Ida ne’e, nia hatutan, bo’ot liu iha Uniaun Europeia ne’ebe media 28%, klaru iha Norwegia, Swuesia media maka 40%-50% feto iha parlamentu laran maibe media Europeia tomak la to’o 28%, media iha Timor besik 30%,” deha nia.

Horta dehan, bainhira feto la partisipa iha prosesu lejislativu, halo lei no aprova orsamentu jeral estadu, signifika la iha progresu.

“Bainhira feto mos iha poder ezekutivu, ne’e progresu bo’ot ida,” dehan Xefe Estadu ne’e.

Iha opurtunidade ne’e, PR Horta agradese mos ba feto sira ne’ebe maka safrifika sira nia vida tomak iha tempu resistensia.

“Hanesan Rosa Muki Bonaparte, sira ne’ebe partisipa iha resistensia, ita hotu hanoin sira, hakruk ba sira nia sakrifisiu, terus no kontribuisuan. Parabens no respeitu ba feto Timor-Leste tomak, “ katak Horta.

Iha fatin hanesan, Premeiru Ministru Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao haktuir hotu-hotu tenki hakruk ba feto sira ne’ebe maka fo kontribuisaun maka’as iha tempu resistensia. Hafoin tinan 10 PM hatutan, sofrimentu ne’ebe povu hetan sai fali hanesan trauma bo’ot ba sosiedade hodi halakon dever atu fo onra ba sira ne’ebe fo ninia vida ba futuru.

“Sira (heroi) liu-tiha ona, ita sei hakruk nafatin ba sira, sei onra sira nia sakrifisiu hodi onra mos partisipasaun feto hotu-hotu ne’ebe sei moris,” tenik Xanana. ***

Feto Mane Serbisu Hamutuk Ba Dezenvolvimentu Nasional

2009-10-30T19:56:00.000-07:00

Dili - Timor Leste/31 Outobru 2009/Rede Feto Timor Leste

Loron 3 Novembru, hanesan loron ida importante ba feto Timor Leste tamba iha loron ida ne’e feto hatudu sira nia kbi’it atu bele lori responsibilidade ba depende nasaun hanesan mane funu nain sira. Iha loron ida ne’e, Saudoso Maria Tapo maski hanesan feto analfabetu ida ho aten brani tiru malu hasoru invazor Indonesia no ikus mate iha linha de fogo. Nia hanesan primeira figura exemplar hodi fo’an ba funu libertasaun nasional no fo influensa ba feto sira seluk atu funu nafatin no la rende ba inimigu sira. Iha tinan 1977 Diresaun Comite Central Fretelin (CCF) desidi loron 3 Novembru sai nudar Loron Nasional Feto nian.

Hafoin hetan independensia, iha fulan Marsu 2005, Parlamentu Nasional Timor Leste ofisialmente aprova Lei.17/I/3/2005 nudar Loron Nasional Feto nian ne’ebe rekomenda husi organizasaun feto OPMT liu husi Segundu Kongresu Nasional Feto Timor Leste iha fulan Junhu 2004 hodi rekonese no valoriza kontribuisaun feto Timor Leste iha luta ba ukun rasik-an.Komesa tinan 2005, feto Timor tomak halao komemorasaun liu husi atividade oin-oin.

Ba tinan 2009, Rede Feto hanesan organizasaun sumbrinha ba organizasaun feto 18 serbisu hamutuk ho Assesoria Para a Sosiedade Sivil halao sorumutu ho populasaun iha rural atu bele komemorasaun Loron Feto ida ne’e. Atividade ida ne’e konsentra iha Aldeia Mota Ikun, Suku Mota Ulun, Distritu Liquisa ho tema “Feto Mane Serbisu Hamutuk Ba dezenvolvimentu Nasional”. Iha loron diak ida ne’e, Rede Feto fo opurtunidade ba populasaun iha Aldeia Mota Ikun atu bele hato’o sira nia problema ba Ulun Boot nasaun nian atu sira bele tau matan ba kondisaun populasaun iha ne’eba. Aldeia Mota Ikun hanesan aldeia isoladu tebes iha Distritu Liquica tamba la iha asesu ba ne’e mos. Populasaun usa deit be’e masin hodi hemu, tein no haris no fo impaktu ba sira nia saude. Sira nia ekonomia mos depende deit ba atividade hanesan kehe fatuk, tein masin no buka ai maran hodi fa’an

Kondisaun iha Aldeia Mota Ikun hanesan ezemplu ida husi kondisaun moris feto iha area rural. Kondisaun ida ne’e hanesan problema feto Timor hotu-hotu tamba ne’e feto Timor Leste tenke luta nafatin hanesan uluk Saudoso Maria Tapo no feto maluk sira seluk hatudu mai ita. Tamba liu luta ida ne’e ita bele goza ita nia independensia. Agora feto Timor tenke kontinua nafatin sira nia luta. Liberta feto Timor husi problema saida deit maka sira infrenta iha sira nia moris, lori igualdade no liberta feto husi diskriminasaun nomos violensia hotu-hotu.

Agora, Mai ita uza loron konsagra ida ne’e atu bele refleta fila-fali luta feto nian iha tempu pasadu no uza ida ne’e sai hanesan ai-kla’ak ida atu bele halakon disigualdade no diskriminasaun iha ita nia moris. Mai ita hamutuk, feto ka mane partisipa atu bele kontribui diak liu-tan ba dezenvolvimentu nasional. Dala ida tan, Rede Feto hato’o parabens ba feto Timor Leste ba Komemorasaun Loron 3 Novembru ba Dala Lima.

A luta kontinua.***

LABELE FIAR RUMORIS FORMA COMISAUN INDEPENDENTI HODI HALAO INVESTIGASAUN CLEAN RELASIONA HO LIDERANSA VICE MINISTRA SAUDE NIAN

2009-10-30T19:51:00.000-07:00

Dili-Timor Leste/ 31 Outobru 2009 /

Hakerek nain Mario de Araujo ( Fundador no board Asosiasaun Mane Kontra Violencia / AMKV)

Iha sema rua nee nia laran iha media eletronik no media cetak, nakonu ho protesta kontra vice ministra departamentu saude senhora Madalena Hanjam relasiona ho nia lideransa iha minesteru saude. Tuir hau nia obserbasaun iha media no rona hosi ibun ba ibun maisemenus Asosiasaun Impremeiru halo protesta ba isu 2 “ ida sira dehan katak senhora vice ministra hasae nia staff hosi servisu fatin, ida fali dehan senhora vice ministra duni Padre Monteiru nebe baixa iha Ospital Gidu Valadares.

Nutisia hirak nee los kalae?

Rumoris dehan senhora vice ministra duni Padre nee halo sidadaun sira hakfodak to balun dehan “se senhora vice ministra duni fali padre nee senhora vice la hatene governu AMP nia politika” balun dehan “sai lideransa nee nia konsekwensi mak hanesan nee ona” balun dehan “senhora vice la duni tok padre ida, mais iha tempu neba senhora vice ministra buka duni fatin ba sekretariu Estadu Promosaun Igualdade nebe hetan aksidente iha Viqueque par hodi deskansa atu halao taratamentu ba sekretariu stadu nia saude. iha tempu hanesan Padre Monteiru mos baixa iha salao VIP. Senhora vice husu deit, sese deit maka baisa iha salao VIP nee, iha staff ospital balun dehan salao VIP nakonu enatun senhora vice lao dadaun hodi buka fatin seluk, senhora vice ministra rasik la hare padre Monteiru ida”

Iha parte seluk hau rona mos katak “ sira nebe maka halo statmen hirak nee balun iha sentimentu personal ho vice ministra, no balun dehan karik dendam masa lalu karik, balun tan dehan kal entre sira nebe halao statmen nee pasti balun atu candidatu an fali ba vice ministra karik, tan balun hare iha televisaun, sira nebe maka halao statmen nee mesak mane deit sira dehan “ biasalah mane sira hakarak sira mak domina iha posisaun boot iha Timor laran nee nemak mane hirak nee protesta makaslos” balun dehan ita ema sempre buka hare mak ema nia salah deit la husu durante tinan rua nia laran nee vice ministra halo saida maka suksesu iha ministeru saude nia laran, hau fiar vice ministra fo kontribuisaun nebe positive ba ministeru saude karik”

Dala barak ita rona deit rumoris mos ita fiar ona, ita la ba husu no buka tuir atu hatene klean liu konaba rumoris nee, realidade hatudu rona deit rumoris dehan Sunami sae ema halae sae foho hotu, karik ida nee mak akontese ba iha senhora vice ministra Madalena Hanjam.

Bainhira hau rona rumoris hirak nee hau mos visita ba too ministeru saude hodi husu informasaun balun konaba los ka senhora vice hasae staff iha ministeru laran, mais realidade iha neba senhora vice la hasai staff ida, mais muda fatin no posisaun nee akonetese duni.

Relasiona ho estatmentu hirak nee, senhor Primeiru Ministru Kayrala Xanana Gusmao mos fo nia intervensaun politika iha media hotu katak “ hau seidauk bele hasai hau nia membru gobernu nee, hau sei hein ministru mai mak ami tur hamutuk hodi responde ba protesta hirak nee”

Perspektiva diferente hosi ema idak-idak nee normal, mais buat balun la normal ne mak hanesan membru Asosiasaun balun dehan “ diak liu senhora vice ministra resigna an deit ona” statmen ida nee hanesan urgenti liu tan seidauk iha komisaun independenti ida maka halao imvsetigasaun konaba rumorisne, no laiha vitima ida mak hato keixa ba iha tribunal, PDHJ no mos departamentu Inspektora Jeral. Diak liu forma komisaun independenti rumah nebe representa orgaun hosi Gobernu, PDHJ,Parlamentu, Igreija no NGO hodi halo investigasaun ba rumoris hirak nee.

Ita hotu hakarak para ita nia lideransa hotu iha Timor Laran nee liu-liu sira nebe maka tur iha gobernu atu hatudu lideransa nebe maka diak, hanesan hakbit sira nebe maka inkapasidade, tau intrese publiku nian iha oin no individu nian iha kotuk, respeitu ema nia dignidade , halakon korupsaun, kolusaun no nepotismu iha instituisaun hotu.***

LORON FETO TIMOR LESTE, 3 NOVEMBRU 2009

2009-10-29T01:24:00.000-07:00

Dili-Timor Leste/ Rede Feto Timor Leste

Luta ba Libertasaun Nasional Timor-Leste hahú kedas husi tempo Avo no Beiala sira. Iha luta naruk ida ne’e, povo Timor-Leste tenke moris iha violensia nia laran, fakar ran ba funu sira halo kontra inimigu sira no lakon sira nia vida. Ikus mai, ita hetan ita nia liberdade no moris hanesan nasaun ida iha mundu ida ne’e.

Bainhira luta ba libertasaun nasional organiza, timor oan rihun ba rihun partisipa iha movimentu oin-oin inklui liuhusi frente armada Falintil. Sira fo sira nia vida tomak atu bele liberta sira nia rai husi invazor Indonesia maski sira hatene sira iha limitasaun. Maski papel feto iha luta libertasaun ladun ita haree no dalabarak ita haluha maibe feto sira mos fo konribuisaun maka’as iha parte tolu mak hanesan Frente Armada, Frente Clandestina no Frente Diplomátika. Iha Frente Armadas, feto maluk sira ho laran brani mos involve iha funu laran, kaer kilat hamutuk ho mane funu nain sira. Hanesan funu nain sira mos brani mate ba depende sira nia rai hanesan Saudosa Maria Tapo husi Suku Tapo-Distritu Bobonaro. Maski nia feto analfabeta ida nia la tauk hasoru inimigu Indonesia, entrega nia vida iha linha fronteira.

Loron 3 Novembru, hanesan loron ida importante ba feto maluk sira tamba iha loron ida ne’e hatudu feto mos iha kbi’it atu bele lori responsibilidade ba depende nasaun Timor Leste, kaer kilat no tiru malu hanesan mane funu nain sira. Saudoso Maria Tapo maski hanesan feto analfabetu ho aten brani tiru malu hasoru invazor Indonesia no mate iha linha de fogo. Nia hanesan primeira figura exemplar hodi fo’an ba funu libertasaun nasional no fo influensa ba feto sira seluk atu funu nafatin no la rende ba inimigu. Ba akontesementu historiku ida ne’e iha tinan 1977 Diresaun CCF desidi loron 3 Novembru sai nudar Loron Nasional Feto Timor Leste.

Hafoin liberta tiha, iha fulan Marsu 2005, Parlamentu Nasional ofisialmente aprova Lei.17/I/3/2005 nudar Loron Nasional Feto Timor Leste nebe rekomenda husi OPMT liu husi Segundu Kongresu Nasional Feto TL iha fulan Junhu 2004 ba estadu Timor Leste hodi rekonese no valoriza kontribuisaun feto TL iha luta ba ukun rasik an.

Ohin, hanesan tempo resistensia, feto barak involve iha dezenvolvimentu nasaun ida ne’e iha area oin-oin. Feto involve maka’as iha area politiku hodi bele halo mudansa ba feto nia kondisaun liu desisaun politika nian. Feto barak mos tama ona iha estrutra partido politiku nian no bainhira sira eleitu nudar deputada, feto sira bele hola desisaun politika liu husi Parlamentu Nasional liu-liu ba interese feto nian. Iha Governo Timor Leste rasik, feto barak mos involve iha parte hotu hotu husi posisaun nivel kraik too posisaun nivel a’as hanesan Ministra. Iha parte ekonomia, feto empresaria sira mos hatudu sira nia kbi’it atu bele maneja setor ekonomiku no sai empresaria diak ida. Feto mos iha kbi’it atu bele partisipa ba depende nasaun ida ne’e liu husi instituisaun FFDTL no PNTL. Husi feto hirak ne’e hatudu mai ita feto nia kapasidade forte la halimar atu bele halao programa no desizaun ba interese nasional nian. Sira nia kbi’it la lakon husi mane sira.

Maski situasaun agora diferensa ho situasaun iha tempo portuegues ou tempo resistensia maibe feto nia misaun atu bele luta ba sira nia direitu kontinua nafatin. Uluk, sei feto iha kbi’it atu kaer kilat hasoru inimigu sira, agora mos feto ho laran brani hasoru no resolve feto maluk sira nia problema. Maski atu bele hetan igualdade prezisa tinan naruk maibe sira komesa hakat ona iha setor oin-oin. Agora feto barak bele hetan eskola, feto barak bele hetan saude diak no gratuitu, feto barak mos bele hola parte ba halo desisaun nasaun nian, feto barak bele serbisu iha setor oin-oin no mudansa seluk ne’ebe sai realidade ona. Iha era dezenvolvimentu ida ne’e, feto ho ativa partisipa maka’as atu bele lori nasaun Timor Leste ba oin. Lori nasaun ida ne’e hakat husi diskriminasaun oin-oin no kiak. Hakat ba kondisaun ne’ebe komunidade Timor Leste bele moris diak no livre husi diskriminasaun.

Dala ida tan, loron 3 Novembru hanesan loron importante mai ita tamba iha loron ida ne’e feto hatudu sira nia laran brani atu bele depende nasaun Timor Leste husi inimigu Indonesia. Luta feto ida ne’e tenke tau iha fatin a’as liu iha feto nia historia tamba liu luta ida ne’e ita bele goza ita nia liberdade no independensia. Agora Ita feto Timor Leste tenke kontinua nafatin sira nia luta no liberta feto Timor husi problema saida deit maka sira sente iha sira nia moris, lori igualdade iha sira nia moris no no liberta feto husi diskriminasaun no violensia.

Agora, ita tenke fo liman ba malu, avansa ba oin no kontinua hakat atu luta ba problema feto nian. Mai ita uza loron konsagra ida ne’e atu bele refleta luta feto nian iha tempu pasadu no uza ida ne’e sai hanesan ai-kla’ak ida atu bele komesa hakat fila fali luta ba direitu feto nian. Mudansa agora ou nunka mais.

A luta kontinua.***

KOMEMORASAUN LORON FETO TIMOR LESTE

2009-10-29T01:21:00.000-07:00

Dili - Timor Leste/Rede Feto Timor Leste

Tinan-tinan, Rede feto nudar organizasaun sumbrinha ba organizasaun feto Timor Leste hotu organisa atividade oin-oin atu bele halo selebrasaun ba loron istoriku ida ne’e. Komemorasaun ba dala uluk Loron Nasional Feto Timor Leste iha tinan 2005 depois Parlamentu Nasional ofisialmente aprova Lei.17/I/3/2005 halo ho atividade oin-oin hanesan refleksaun, talkshow, palko muzika no produsaun bulettim. Tinan-tinan, komemorasaun ba loron ida ne’e sai ajenda espesial ba organizasaun feto nian.

Komemorasaun Loron Feto Nasional 2007

Rede Feto hanesan salurik ba 18 organizasaun feto hari komisaun organizadora ida atu bele komemora loron ida ne’e. Iha nivel national, Rede Feto halao workshop ida ho topiku “Haberan Feto Nia Direitus Liu Husi Politika Legislasaun. Workshop ida ne’e halao iha dia 3 Novembru 2007, iha Salaun Memorial Hall - Farol. Maski monu iha loron feriadu, atividade ida ne’e hetan partisipasaun makaas husi governu, ONG no feto maluk sira husi distritu. Partisipa mos membru Parlamento National, Ministru Ekonomia no Dezenvolvimento, Ministru Edukasaun, Ministra Solidaridade Social, Vice Minitra Saude no Adjunto Provedor Direitus Umanus.

Iha loron ida ne’e Rede Feto fo oportunidade ba feto maluk sira atu bele hato’o sira nia problema ba orgaun governu sira. Diskusaun interativu ne’e mos hanesan parte ida atu bele rezolve ba problema feto maluk sira liu-liu husi area rurais atu bele haberan feto nia direitu iha Timor Leste. Partisipante sira satisfeitu ho workshop ida ne’e tamba sira bele hetan informasaun direita husi orgaun governu nebe sai orador iha workshop ida ne’e. Hatan ba problema feto maluk sira enfrenta hanesan dalan, sasan la folin mo seluk tan, governu promete atu buka solusaun ba resolve problema iha base liu plano estrategia ba tinan lima. Iha programa ida ne’e mos hatudu kona ba musika no teatro.

Iha 2 Novembru 2007 kalan, Rede Feto mos halao debate interativu ida liu husi programa TVTL nian. ho topiku “Haberan Feto Nia Direitu liu Politika Legislasaun”. Ba debate ida ne’e, Rede Feto konvida Vice Presidente PN Nasional, Maria Paixao no Direitora Executiva Rede Feto, Ubalda Alves hanesan orador. Durante oras ida, Maria Paixao hanesan mos Presidente Grupu Feto Parlamentu esplika kona ba situasaun feto Timor Leste nebe inferenta problema barak iha moris lor-loron relasaun ho sistema patriakal iha Timor Leste no saida mak Parlamentu atu bele haberan direitu feto nian liu legislativa.Dialogo ne’e mos hetan pergunta barak husi telespektadores liu-liu mane sira relasaun ho problema kultura no uma laran.

Iha Maliana, Rede Feto hamutuk Caucus Feto iha Politika distribui 2000 pamfletu kona ba historia Maria Tapo ba estudante no komunidade iha neba. Objectivu husi distribuisaun pamfletu ne’e para sira la bele haluha ho luta nebe feto maluk sira husi Tapo.

Komemorasaun Loron Feto Timor Leste 2008

Komemorasaun loron istoriku feto nian iha tinan 2008 selebra ho atividade hanesan workshop, entrega Plataforma Asaun husi III Kongresu Nasional feto Timor Leste nian, tau aifunan nomos talkshow iha TVTL. Rede Feto hanesan sumbrinha ba organizasaun feto fo loron ida ne’e ba halao seremonia entrega Plataforma de Asaun feto Timor Leste nian ba IV Governo Konstitusional. Seremonia ida ne’e hetan partispasaun husi feto deputada sira, membru governo, sosiedade sivil nomos membru organizasaun Rede Feto nian.

Durante seremonia ida ne’e. Senhora Maria Dias nudar Presidente Board Rede Feto hateten katak maski Rede Feto iha momentu ne’eba ho kapasidade minimum no hetan ajuda husi asesora internasional maibe bele halo remata Plataforma de Asaun ida nee.

“Ida nee fo esperansa mai ami. Ami iha momentu nee maski ami nia kapasidade minimum maibe hetan ajuda husi asesora internasional balu too ami bele halo remata ami nia Plataforma de Asaun ida nee. Iha Plataforma ida nee ami desidi area 7, iha nee priodade nebe atu haree, ami foti ezemplu hanesan justisa ninian, ministriu solidaridade ida nee uluk hanesan asesora ba promousaun igualdade halo ona draft ida kona ba lei violensia domestika diskuti hamutuk ho sosiedade sivil liuliu organizasaun feto sira maibe too agora lei ne’e seidauk aprova, ida nee obstaklu boot ida maka oinsa atu bele resolve” hateten Maria Dias.

Plataforma de Asaun husi III Kongresu Feto Timor Leste entrega formalmente ba Vise Premeiru Ministru Jose Luis Guterres, SEPI Alfredo Pires nomos Representantes UNMIT .

Durante nia deskursu, Vise Primeiru Ministru Jose Luis Guterres hateten katak dokumetus POA ne’ebe integra iha seremonia ida ne’e, governu sei fo atensaun rona feto sira nia lian, Konselhu Ministru, SEPI sei halo buat hotu para proteje direitu feto nian.***

ISTORIA LUTA FETO TIMOR LESTE BA IGUALDADE

2009-10-29T01:18:00.000-07:00

Dili-Timor Leste/Rede Feto Timor Leste

Feto Timor Leste nia luta hahu kedas husi Avo no Beiala sira. Iha tempu kolonialismu Portuges ukun Timor, estatutu feto nian sei tuir ema matenek-nain sira hanoin henesan filozofu boot Aristoteles nia konseitu katak feto la bele hanesan mane ida.

Maski iha tempu ne’eba, liurai feto barak ukun Portugal maibe ne’e la hatudu katak estatuto feto nia sai diak, sira kondisaun kontinua nafatin mos hetan diskriminasaun. Feto sira eskola too deit kuarta klasse ka segunda klasse deit tamba hetan bandu husi inan aman sira ho hanoin katak feto nia estatutu tenke serbisu iha uma nian, tenke suku, hadia uma laran, tein no tenke simu bainaka. Violasaun hasoru feto ne’ebe akontese iha uma laran mos la hato’o ba publiku tamba tauk hamoe ka hatun imajem familia nian. La iha organizasaun feto kolia kona-ba feto nia direitu iha tempu ne’eba.

Depois Revolusaun dos Cravos iha loron 25 fulan Abril 1974, governo foun iha Portugal fo liberdade ba Timor Leste atu desidi sira nia futuru. Komesa loron ida ne’e partidu politiku komesa organiza fali sira nia organizasaun. Feto estudantes sira mos komesa hahu sira nia kampanha kona-ba direitu feto nian liu-liu oinsa defende groupu vuneravel no marjinalizada liu husi organizasaun Uniaun Nasional Estudantes Timores (UNETIM). Sira hakbesik a’an ba inan feto sira atu bele fo esklaresementu kona-ba oinsa feto nia knaar iha familia, komunidade no sosiedade. Liu husi movimentu ne’e, feto sira hetan kbiit atu bele hahu partisipa iha politika.

Partidu Politiku rasik loke sira nia odomatan atu feto sira bele involve no organiza sira nia atividade. Organizasaun OPMT (Organizasaun Popular das Mulheres de Timor) hanesan organizasaun feto ida ne’ebe hahu sira nia atividade iha fulan Agostu 1975. Hanesan organizasaun feto ida husi partido Fretelin, OPMT hetan apoiante husi profesora iha Komite Edukasaun no Kultura. Comite Central Fretelin (CCF) mos fo fiar ba feto ida hanaran Rosa Bonaparte Soares/Muky atu bele lidera organizasaun ida ne’e. Iha deklarasaun harii OPMT iha Fulan-Setembru 1974, Rosa Muki esplika katak OPMT hanesan organizasaun massa Frente Revolusionaria ba Independensia Timor Leste ne’ebe hakiak posibilidades ba inan feto sira hola parte iha luta revolusaun nian.

Bainhira konflitu entre partidu mosu iha Fulan-Agustu 1975 no resulta ema barak sai vitima, feto sira iha OPMT halao nafatin sira nia programa hanesan loke crechee iha fatin konflitu hanesan iha Dili, Maubisse no Turiscai. Creche ida ne’e harii atu bele fo apoiu lojistiku, moral ba oan kiak sira, hanorin alfabetizasaun nomos tau matan ba area saude.

Iha loron 7 Fulan-Dezembru 1975, militar Indonesia halao invasaun ba Timor Leste liu husi tasi no lalehan no halao Timoroan sira barak mate nomos halai ba foho ou sai refujiadu iha Atambua no Australia. Iha loron ida ne’e, feto Timor nain tolu hanaran Isabel Bareto Lobato, Rosa Muky no Silvina Namuk asasinada iha Ponte Kais - Dili. Sira ho aten brani hasoru kolonialismu Indonesia no fakar sira nia ran atu bele salva povu Timor Leste. Sira hanesan ezemplu ida husi luta feto timor ba sira nia libertasaun.

Maibe antes ida ne’e akontese, iha fulan Novembru 1975, iha linha fronteira entre Timor Leste no Indonesia, ita nia feto luta nain sira ho laran brani tiru malu hasoru inimigu militar Indonesia no mate iha funu laran. Maria de Tapo, feto alfabetu ida husi Suku Tapo distritu Bobonaro hanesan inan no gerilleira ida ho laran brani kaer kilat hamutuk ho luta nain sira atu bele depende ita nia rai. Iha loron 3 fulan Novembro 1975, bainhira nia lori hahan ba ninia kaben Siga Mau ne’ebé halo vijilansia iha linha de fogo, inimigu indonesia sira attaka sira nia abrigu no halo nia kaben mate. Haree ida ne’e, Maria Tapo ho aten brani, kaer duni nia kaben ninia kilat hodi tiru hasoru inimigu no mate iha linha de fogu. Maria Tapo hanesan ezemplu ida kona-ba feto nia luta durante invasaun Indonesia.

Durante tempo resistensia, feto sira iha organizasaun OPMT luta nafatin atu bele apoia luta ba libertasaun. Sira apoia lojistika, edukasaun, alfabetizasaun, saude no harii creche. Durante tempo ida ne’e, feto Timor aprendre moris iha kolektiva ka groupu no toba la dukur, harii komisaun hanorin nian atu foti nafatin feto nia konsekuensia politika ne’ebe moris iha nakukun laran. Iha ai laran, feto maluk sira mos hetan posisaun hanesan mane sira atu bele diskusaun kona-ba politika, rona malu no reispeita ida-ida nia hanoin.

Durante tempu luta ba libertasaun, invazor Indonesia buka dalan oin –oin atu bele hatun moral resistensia armada inklui halo torturasaun no violensia seksual ba feto sira sai hanesan taktika ida. Maibe feto sira nunka hakru’uk ba inimigu maski invazor Indonesia buka nafatin estratejia foun atu bele elimina povo Timor liu husi programa Planeamenta Familiar no fo aimoruk ho doze boot ba labarik moras sira. Feto Timor kontinua nafatin sira nia luta atu bele liberta rai ida ne’e. Sira barak sai matadalan atu bele lori funu nain Falintil sira ba asalta postu militar Indonesia nian, fo informasaun ba ai-laran bainhira inimigu atu attaka Falintil, halao seguransa bainhira resistensia, halao enkontru segredu, subar funu nain sira, lori hahan, kura mora no kanek, no seluk seluk tan.

Iha fulan Julhu 1997, feto maluk ativista sira organiza a’an no hari organizasaun hanaran FOKUPERS (Forum Komunikasi Perempuan Timor Lorosae). Sira halao rehabilitasaun no fortifikasaun ba feto maluk vitima sira, halao advokasia kontra governu lokal no militar Indonesia maka viola feto nia dignidade no ninia direitu. Sira mos sai hanesan ponte informasaun atu mundu internasional bele rona feto timor nia terus. Iha tinan hanesan, Mana Maria Dias, feto Timor ida hari’i organizasaun ida hanaran PAS (Prontu atu Serbi) atu bele apoio kura luta nain sira ne’ebe moras no hetan tiru husi invazor sira.

Bainhira CNRM nakfila ba CNRT iha tinan 1998, iha Timor Leste mosu organizasaun OMT (organizasaun Mulher de Timor) ho nia misaun atu bele hatutan no haberan informasaun kona-ba violensia direitu umanus iha rai laran. Hare’e ba situsaun ne’ebe nakonu ho violensia, feto foin sae sira organiza a’an no hari Groupu Foin sai Timor Leste (GFFTL) iha Fulan Novembru 1998. Sira mos halao mini konferensia ida ho tema “Lalaok Feto Timor Lorosae” atu publiku bele rona saida maka inan feto sira hanoin kona-ba hahalok a’at militarismu Indoneisa sira.

Iha fulan Maio 1998, tamba demontrasaun maka’as husi estudante sira iha Indonesia, Suharto tenke tun husi nia kargo hanesan Presidente Indonesia no entrega poder ba BJ Habibie. Iha fulan Janeiru 1999, Presidente Habibie fo opsaun rua ba provinsia Timor-Timur (agora Timor Leste) atu bele desidi nia futuru, nafatin hamutuk ho Indoensia ka sai nasaun independensia. Maski povo Timor Leste hetan amiasa no violasaun husi groupu militia no militar Indonesia maibe iha loron konsulta popular 30 fulan Agostu, sira ho aten brani hakat ba fatin-fatin votasaun hodi fo sira nia vota ba futuru Timor Leste nian. Ikus, iha loron 4 Setembru 1999, Sekretaris Jeral Nasaun Unidos, Senhor Kofi Anan hato’o ba mundu tomak katak persentasaun 78,5 votus ba independensia. Resultadu Ida ne’e hamosu violasaun oin-oin iha Timor laran tomak no halo ema rihun ba rihun halai ba foho atu bele salva sira nia vida husi asaun violensia ne’ebe militia halo. Iha tempu ida ne’e, feto no labarik barak sai vitima, hetan violasaun seksual no mate iha fatin-fatin refujiadu hanesan Ingreja Suai no fatin- fatin seluk.

Bainhira Timor Leste tama ba periodu transizaun, feto Timor Leste mos tenke hahu moris husi zero. Kondisaun ida ne’e halo feto barak terus tamba sira lakon sira nia uma, lakon sira nia sasan no dalaruma sira lakon sira nia laen ka oan. Haree ba kondisaun ida ne’e, iha fulan Julhu 2000, feto Timor halibur fali malu hamutuk ema atus lima nulu hodi halao I Kongresu Nasional Feto Timor Leste nia. Iha kongresu ida ne’e, feto Timor Leste kolia kona-ba sira nia problema no desidi Plataforma Asaun Feto nian ba tinan 4. Plataforma ne’e hanesan matadalan ba asaun feto nian atu bele resolve sira nia problema. Iha I kongresu ida ne’e, feto Timor Leste hakotu lian ida deit hodi tau naran Rede Feto hanesan mahon ba organizasaun feto hotu-hotu iha Timor Leste. Mahon organzasaun hanaran Rede Feto kontinua nafatin luta ba igualdade.***

ISTORIA SAUDOSO MARIA DE TAPO,

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Dili-Timor Leste/Rede Feto Timor Leste

Saudoso Maria Tapo, feto ida mai husi suco Tapo, sub distrito Bobonaro, distrito Bobonaro involve iha asaun kontra infiltrasuan militarismu indonesia iha linha fontira antes Indonesia halao invasaun iha loron 7 Desembru 1975. Hanesan feto analfabeta ida, Maria Tapo la tauk sai funu nain/guerrilheira ida bainhira nia haree militarismu Indonesia komesa tama ba linha fronteira Timor Leste nian.

Iha loron 3 fulan Novembro 1975, Maria Tapo lori hahan ba ninia kaben Siga Mau ne’ebé halo vijilansia iha linha de fogo, iha abrigu. Bainhira nia kaben han hela iha abrigo laran, teki-teki inimigu sira avansa hodi tiru malu ho ita nia guerrilheiro Falintil sira. Maria Tapo nia kaben Siga Mau mos mate. Haree ida ne’e, Maria Tapo ho aten brani, kaer duni nia kaben ninia kilat hodi tiru hasoru inimigu, nune’e mos inimigu tiru maka’as teb-tebes hodi kona nia no halo nia mate kedas iha linha de fogo.

Hafoin nia mate, ninia feto maluk sira seluk ne’ebe lao hamutuk haruka kedas lia menon ida ba Komite Central Fretilin dehan hanesan ne’e “Ami feto Tapo sei la rende, ami sei funu too ami nia ran turuk ikus liu nian”. Ikus mai iha tinan 1977, Direcção Comité Central Fretilin promove loron tolu (3) fulan Novembro hanesan loron nacional ba feto TL. Hahú hosi tinan ida ne’e, Organizasaun Popular Mulher de Timor (OPMT) komemora kedas ona loron 3 Novembru ne’e iha tempu rezistensia no mos iha klandestinidade nia laran hanesan loron nacional feto nian hodi fo honra no glória ba heroínas hotu-hotu Timor Leste nian.***

HALAKON DISKRIMINASAUN KONTRA FETO SIRA IHA AREA RURAL

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Dili, 15 Outobru 2009/ Loron Internasional Feto Rural/ REDE FETO TIMOR LESTE

Rede Feto Timor Leste hakarak hato’o parabens ba feto maluk ne’ebe moris iha area rurais tamba iha loron 15 Fulan-Outobru 2009 selebra Loron Internasional Feto Rural. Iha loron ida ne’e, mundu tomak halao refleksaun ba kondisaun feto rurais nian ne’ebe infrenta obstaklu bar-barak. Too ohin loron, feto barak iha area rural hetan limitasaun atu bele uza sira nia direitu iha area saude no edukasaun. Feto barak sei hasoru problema saude reproduktiva no numeru mortalidade ne’ebe a’as. Sira mos dalaruma susar atu lori sira nia produtu ba mercado impaktu husi estrada ne’ebe ladiak. Laos ida ne’e deit, be’e mos, elektrisidade no limitasaun informasaun mos sai problema importante ne’ebe tenke resolve lalais .

Maski sira infrenta obstaklu barak maibe sira fo ona kontribuisaun maka’as ba ita nia dezenvolvimentu liu-liu iha setor agrikultura no ekonomia rural. Maizemenus numeru feto besik milaun 428 serbisu iha setor agrikultura atu bele produz hahan ba sosiedade. Maski sira serbisu iha setor ida ne’e maibe sira sei halao nafatin sira nia funsaun atu tau matan ba sira nia oan no familia.

Feto iha area rural mos hetan impaktu maka’s husi mudansa iklimatika tamba isue global ida fo impaktu sira susar atu bele hetan be’e nomos ai sunu ba sira na familia. Sira tenke lao dook no husik sira nia eskola no serbisu agrikultura. Posisaun ida ne’e halo sira hetan risku husi hahalok violensia baseia ba jeneru.

Atu bele proteze feto iha area rurais, Nasaun Unidas halao ona Konferensia Mundial ba Feto ba Dala Ha’at iha tinan 1995 nomos Konferensia Milenium iha tinan 2000. Sira mos aprova Konvesaun Halakon Diskriminasaun Hotu-Hotu kontra Feto (CEDAW) hanesan instrumental direitu Umanus ida. Artigu 14 husi konvensaun ida ne’e hateten katak nasaun ne’ebe ratifika konvensaun ida ne’e iha responsibilidade atu bele halakon diskriminasaun kontra feto sira iha area rural nomos hola medidas lolos atu garantia aplikasaun lei husi konvensaun ida ne’e, ba feto sira iha area rural.

Baseia Relatorio Alternativa ba Konvensaun CEDAW ne’ebe sosiedade sivil Timor Leste hato’o ba Komite CEDAW hateten katak feto Timor Leste ladun hetan oportunidade hanesan ho mane sira iha asesu ba area edukasaun, assistensia saude nomos asesu ba justisa formal. Relatorio ida ne’e mos esplika katak feto agrikultor susar atu faan sira nia produtu lokal iha merkadu sidade tamba menus sosa nain nomos barak la hetan asesu ba transporte atu lori sasan ba merkadu sidade, fatin area rural barak laiha estrada ka estrada a’at no laiha transporte publiku.

Klaru ba ita, problema ne’ebe feto iha area rurais hasoru sai mos hanesan feto hotu-hotu nia problema ne’ebe tenke resolve lalais. Durante Kongresu Feto Timor Leste ba dala III tinan 2008, feto husi distritu akumula sira nia problema no halao sira plano de asaun ida atu bele lori feto nia kondisaun tuir feto nia hakarak. Plataforma ida kompostu husi area 7 hanesan area politika, justisa, saude, kultura, edukasaun, ekonomia nomos media komunikasaun no transporte. Platafoma feto nian ida ne’e mos prezisa atensaun maka’as husi parte hotu-hotu. Bainhira ita la fo atensaun maka bele hamosu diskriminasaun iha area oin-oin, husi asesu edukasaun no saude, asesu ba kontrola rai, opurtunidade ba serbisu, ekonomia familia nian nomos partisipasaun iha publiku.

Eleisaun Lideransa Komunitaria ne’ebe foin remata mos sai hanesan dalan demokrasia ida atu bele hili lideransa komunitaria hanesan Xefe Suku, Xefe Aldeia nomos Konselhu Suku. Maske husi resultadu provisoriu hatudu katak kandidata feto nain 11 maka eleitu sai xefe suku maibe faktus ida ne’e hatudu mai ita katak kapasidade feto nian iha area politika komesa aumenta. Husi eleisaun ida ne’e mos, feto hamutuk ho total 1326 sei sei tuur iha Konselhu Suku atu fo ideas ba dezisaun suku nian liu-liu atu bele resolve problema feto ninian. Husi numeru hirak ne’e, ita espera katak sira bele luta nafatin ba depende intereste feto ninian atu bele lori dezenvolvimentu beseia ba igualdade jeneru.

Dala ida tan, ita hotu espera katak, komemorasaun Loron Internasional Feto Rural 2009 bele lori mudansa signifikan ba kondisaun feto sira iha area rurais no fo opurtunidade diak-liutan ba feto sira bele goza sira direitu.

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Projeitu ne’e Hanesan Ponte Ida Atu Bele Prepara Lideransa Feto iha Nivel Suku

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Naturalidade kultural patriakal iha sosiedade TL hamosu mos disigualdade jeneru bainhira feto sira marjinalizadu laos deit iha sira nia asesu ba serbisu sira maibe mos iha sira nia partisipasaun efeitivu iha politika no foti desizaun. Reprezentante feto 29% iha Parlamentu Nasional no 27.6% iha Konselhu Suku nian, tamba asaun afirmativu husi Lei Eleitoral 2006 nian no ba Eleisaun Konselhu Suku 2004-2005 nian. Maski nune feto sira sei falta komunikasaun, konfiansa, konesementu no abilidade atu involve di-diak iha no influensia rekonstrusaun hafoin konflitu no prosesu harii nasaun ne’ebe responsive ba sira nia nesesidade. Maski feto Timor hasoru problema maibe la hapara movimentu feto atu bele liberta husi violasaun no disigualdade.

Iha fulan Outobru 2008, Rede Feto asina kontratu ho UNDEF no UNIFEM kona-ba hametin feto nia funsaun liu-liu iha nivel Konselhu Suku. Projeitu sei uja elisaun Konsellu Suku iha tinan 2009 hanesan opurtunidade estratejiku ida hodi hametin partisipasaun feto sira nian iha harii nasaun hafoin liu tiha konflitu iha Timor Leste no dezenvolve ajenda rekontruksaun ne’ebe responsive ba janeru iha nivel lokal.

Eleisaun lokal ne’ebe halao tiha ona iha tinan 2004-2005 reinforsa opurtunidade ba fortalesimentu feto sira nian iha politiku. Durante eleisaun lokal iha tina 2004-2005, feto sira hetan kampanha ba posisaun hanesan Xefi Suku no Xefi Aldeia no reprezentante ba Konselhu Suku. Feto hamutuk nain 29 mak eleitu ona, kompostu husi Xefi Suku nain 7 no Xefi Aldeia nain 22. Feto liu nain 1300 mak eleitadu ona hanesan membru Konselhu Suku nian, ida ne’e mosu hanesan resultadu ida husi pozisaun tolu ne’ebe reserva ba feto sira atu tu’ur iha kada Konselhu Suku nian (feto nain rua no representante foin-sae feto ida).

Hafoin halao tiha eleisaun, projeitu ne’e sei apoio ajenda dezenvolvimentu lokal ne’ebe responsive ba jeneru liu husi hadia konesementu no abilidade Konseleiru Suku eleitadu feto sira hodi bele partisipa iha governasaun lokal no iha implementasaun planu dezenvolvimentu lokal ne’ebe responsive ba jeneru. Projeitu ne’e mos sei promove plataforma politika rekontruksaun ne’ebe responsive ba jeneru hodi liga ofisial eleitadu sira iha nivel nasional no Konselhu Suku feto sira ne’ebe eleitadu hodi haforsa liu tan apoio no dialogu entre feto eleitadu sira ne’e.

Rede Feto hanesan organizasaun ne’ebe hetan fiar atu bele implementa programa ida ne’e halao ona atividade preparasaun. Rede Feto liu husi membru nain 4 hanesan PAS, GFFTL, UNFETIF no Centru Feto Enklave Oecusse serbisu ba suksesu programa ida ne’e. Lansamentu ba projeitu ne’e rasik halao ona iha fulan ida ne’e no hetan antusiasmu maka’as husi autoridade lokal iha distritu 4. Sra. Eveline Iman hanesan koordenador ba projeitu ida ne’e hatete katak projeitu ida ne’e atu lider lokal iha distritu 4 ne’e bele hatene no halao kolaborasaun hamutuk ho membru nain 4 husi Rede Feto ne’ebe implementa programa.

Hare ba objetivu, projeitu ne’e hanesan ponte ida atu bele prepara lideransa feto iha nivel suku inklui mos prepara ba kuantidade no kualidade feto hira tu’ur iha Konselhu Suku. Preparasaun ba rekursu umanu liu-liu ba feto sai importante atu bele kria lideransa feto ne’ebe forte atu bele lori asuntu feto laos deit iha Konselhu Suku maibe mos bele lori asuntu ida ne’e to’o Parlamentu Nasional.

Projeitu ida ne’e implementa iha distritu ha’at hanesan Ermera, Oecusse, Lautem no Viqueque. Distritu hirak ne’e identifika ona tamba disparidade jeneru ne’ebe aas iha area edukasaun no saude, nivel violensia seksual no violensia baseia ba jeneru a’as tebes liu-liu kazu violensia domestika no asesu ne’ebe limitadu ba sistema justisa formal no feto sira sadere deit ba justisa tradisional. Nune’e mos, distritu Viqueque hanesan lokalidade pilotu ne’ebe implementa ona Programa Apoiu Governasaun Lokal (LGSP) iha ne’e mos Konselhu Suku sei iha oportunidade atu influensia ajenda dezenvovimentu lokal husi perspektiva jeneru.

Projeitu ne’e sei baseia eisperiensia no rede hirak iha Programa Atu Hametin Lideransa Feto Rural sira nian no Partisipasaun hodi hari nasaun Timor Leste (PERWL) iha tinan 2004-2007. ***

KONGRESU NASIONAL FETO TIMOR LESTE BA DALA III - 2008

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Tuir mandatu ne’ebé fó kompetensia ba REDE FETO, iha loron 12 fulan Dezembru 2007, Reuniaun Anual Rede Feto desidi fórma Komisaun Organizadora (KO) espesiazada atu halao III Kongresu Feto Timorense ho tema “Feto nia visaun ba iha Dezenvolvimento Nasional”. Terseiro Kongresu Feto Timor fahe iha prosesu 2 maka (1) Konferensia Distrital no (2) Kongersu Nasioanl.l Konferensia Distrital huhu iha fulan Junho 2008 no organiza husi organizasaun membru Rede Feto.

Objetivu husi III Kongresu Feto Timor Leste maka : (1) Atu evalua seksesu no disvantagen husi objectivu Plata Fórma de Asaun (POA) II Kongresu Nasional Feto Timor Leste iha tinan 2004 -2008. (2) Atu identifika nesecidade no problema foun ne’ebé inan feton sira hasoru; (3) Atu asegura katak stakeholder sira bele iha komitmentu atu implementa POA husi Kongresu Nasional ba dala tolu. (4) Atu hari groupu monitorizasaun ne’ebé sei asegura implementasaun POA tuir duni plano ne’ebé iha.

Iha fulan Marsu to’o Maio, Komisaun Organizadora hamutuk ho Orgaun Executiva Rede Feto, halo preparasaun ba konferensia Distrital, hanesan halo regulamentu ba konferensia Distrital, hanesan halo regulamentu ba kongresu, halo lobby ho Ministru sira ne’ebé atu sai orador iha konferencia, halo lobby ba fasilitador husi Timor Aid maka hetan Senhor Alex Gusmao ne’ebé sei fó treinamentu ba fasilitador ne’ebé kompostu husi membru rasik. Treinamentu ne’e halo durante loron lima nia laran komesan iha dia 30 de Abril to’o fali iha 4 de Maio ho objectivu atu hetan fasilitador ne’ebé diak atu bele fasilita fali fasilitador sira husi Distritu.

Konferensia Distrital hala’o iha semana tolu nia laran komesa iha loron 9 to’o 27 Junho 2008 iha distrito 13 ho tema “ Feto nian Vizaun ba Iha Desenvolvimentu Nasional”. Organizasaun membrus ne’ebé organiza atividade hirak ne’e mak hanesan OPMT organiza iha distrito Oequsse, Viqueque, Baucau, Organizasaun APSC-TL iha distrito Maliana no Suai, Organizasaun OMT iha distrito Aileu, Fundasaun Alola iha distrito Manufahi, Sta. Bakhita iha distrito Manatuto, FMF iha distritu Liquica, PAS iha distrito Lospalos no Dili, Caucus iha distrito Ainaro. Resultado hosi Konferensia Distrital ne’e sei lori mai Kongreso Nasional sei halao iha fulan Setembru. Konferensia Distrital hetan partisipasaun husi 1.776 partisipantes husi representantes feto husi suco, autoridade distrital, UNPOL, PNTL, organizasaun sosiedade sivil, groupu feto, representante relijioso no feto ne’ebé tuur iha Konselhu de Suco inklui mos organizasaun membru Rede Feto.

Isu foun barak mosu durante halao Konferensia Distrital. Feto barak ijiji Governu TL tenke tau matan ba area rural ne’ebé enfrenta problema oin-oin, husi problema uma laran too problema infraestrutura atu bele lori sira nia produtu lokal ba faan. Fatin barak riku ho sira nia produtu lokal maibe susar iha bele faan tamba problema estrada, ponte no transporte. Problema ne’e fó impaktu ba serbisu autoridade lokal iha nivel distrital no sub-distrital liu liu iha area saude, edukasaun, ekonomia no komunikasaun. Iha parte seluk, setor justisa liuliu ba prosesu iha tribunal sai preokupasaun boot ba feto vitima husi violensia atu bele hetan justica.

Konferencia Distrital remata ho diak, meske hetan asidente iha Distritu Maliana maibe , membru sira sei kontinua halo sira nia responsabelidade to’o konferencia ne’e remata. Bazeia husi Konferencia Distrital membru sira ne’ebé kaer responsabelidade hatama ona resultau konferencia no relatorio narativo mai orgaun executiva.

Bazia ba resultadu konferensia, Komisaun organizadora no Orgaun Executiva Rede Feto sei servisu hamutuk ho Asesora nai neen husi; UNIFEM Senhora Dianne, husi Pregressio Senhora Edna S. Tesoro, husi Gender Advisor AECID Timor Leste Senhora Matha Barral Nieto, husi Nasonal Parlament Senhora Endah Trista Agustiana, husi SEPI senhora Monica da Costa no ikus husi; Ministeiru Agrikultura Senhora Kanchan Lama. Asesora nai neen ne’e maka sei analiza fali resultadu sira ne’e no sei lori ba diskuti iha Kongresu Nasisonal.

Konferencia distrital no Kongresu Nasional ne’e hetan suporta makas husi doadores hanesan: Oxfam Australia, Caritas Australia, UNIFEM, GTZ, Embazada Norwegia, The Asia Foundation, Secretaria Promosaun Igualdade (SEPI), UNFPA , Trocaire, Blue Mountains Sisters, ETWA Australia, no Canadian Catholic Organisation for Development and Peace.***

KONGRESU NASIONAL MATA DALAN BA DEZENVOLVIMENTU FETO TIMOR LESTE

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Molok hakotu tiha Referendum iha loron 30 Agustu 1999, feto barak maka sai vítima ba prosesu Ukun Rasik An, hasoru susar no terus oi-oin, laiha linha orientadora ida atu fó atendimentu diak ba sira nia situasaun. Nudar nasaun foun, Timor Leste iha dizafiu boot atu bele mudansa husi sistema kolonialismu no okupasaun militar ne’ebe fó impaktu boot ba mentalidade ita nia nasaun. Sistema feodal no patriakal metin nafatin iha komunidade nia leet, ne’e hatudu mai ita, diskriminasaun ba feto buras nafatin iha Timor. Maski isue igualdade jéneru sai ona hanesan priodade nasional maibe feto nafatin tu’ur nafatin iha segunda klase no sai vitima bebeik. Hafoin libertasaun nasional, feto nia luta maka luta atu bele asegura partisipasaun feto iha dezenvolvimentu nasional hodi nune’e bele hasai feto nia status sosial.

Klaru iha artigu 17 Konstituisaun RDTL katak feto no mane iha direito no dever hanesan iha moris uma laran, sosial ekonomiku no politiku. Konvensaun CEDAW mos garantia feto livre husi diskriminasaun oin-oin maibe diskriminasaun ba feto buras nafatin. Ba ida ne’e, presiza atensaun maka’as husi feto sira. Hakarak ka lakohi, feto hotu tenki fó liman ba malu hodi bele hakat husi diskriminasaun no violensia. Rede Feto hanesan organizasaun Salurik ba organizasaun feto 18 fó ona komitmentu maxima atu bele halao mudansa ba kondisaun feto Timor. Kongresu Nasional ba Feto Timor Leste hanesan dalan ida ba Rede Feto atu bele fó fatin no tempo ba feto sira bele hasoru malu, foti kestoens prioritarias no halao analize profundu ba nia implementasaun.

Liu husi Primeiro Kongresu Feto, Rede Feto hetan konfiansa boot atu bele organiza Kongresu Feto dala ida iha periodu tinan ha’at nia laran. Husi Kongresu Feto Timor, Rede Feto bele foti desizaun liuhosi rekomendasaun ba problema feto no hato’o ba Instituisaun ne’ebé kompetente hanesan : Presidente Repúblika, Governo no Parlamento Nasional nune bele hadia’a sistema nomos hadia’a moris povo nian.

Primeiro Kongresu Feto Timor Leste (KNF-TL1) halao iha loron 14 - 17 Junhu 2000 partisipa husi 500 partisipante. Kongresu ida ne’e foti isue sentrais hanesan direitus umanus no rekonsiliasaun; situasaun judisial, politik no governasaun; sosial no kultural; ekonomia; groupu vurnerable, media no komunikasaun; agrikultura; saude; no edukasaun. Durante kongresu, partisipante identifika problema feto nomos asaun kongkreta atu bele hatan ba problema ne’ebé mosu iha sira nia le’et. Rekomendasaun husi premeiru kongresu tau iha dokumento final hanaran Plataforma Asaun ba Feto Timor Leste 2000-2004..

Iha fulan Julhu 2004, Rede Feto organiza Kongresu Nasional Feto Timor Leste ba Dala II (KNF-TL 2) ho tema”Halao Dezenvolvimentu no Halakon Mukit”. Kongresu ne’e hanesan prosesu ida atu mobilisa feto Timor-Leste hodi kria agenda ba empodera feto iha Plataforma de Asaun (POA). Planeamentu ba Segundu Kongresu Feto hahu husi enkontru Assembleia Geral iha fulan Agostu 2003. Implementasaun husi kongresu ida ne’e liuhusi fase rua; (1) Kongresu Regional, no (2) Kongresu Nasional. Maizumenus total 1000 partisipantes inklui 10% mane partisipa iha Kongresu Regional ne’ebe halao durante loron 3 iha region 4 ; Ainaro, Baucau, Dili no Liquica. Kongresu iha nivel nasional rasik halao iha loron 27-31 Julhu 2004. Primeiro Ministro TL. Sr. Mari Alkatiri, akompanya husi Bispo Diocese de Dili, Mgr Ricardo, Panglima F-FDTL Sr. Taur Matan Ruak, Sra. Assessora Promoção de Igualdade, halao abertura official ba Kongresu Nasional ida ne’e. Maizemenus 500 delegadus husi distritu 13 inklui mane 10 % partisipa iha kongresu ne’e. Hafoin loron ha’at halao debates delegadus sira finalize no aprova segundu Plataforma de Assaun 2004 – 2008.***

HUSI BAZE, KONFERENSIA DISTRITAL NO PLATAFORMA DE ASAUN 2008-2012

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Kongresu Nasional Feto Timor Leste hanesan loron final husi atividade ne’ebé durante fulan tolu halao husi Rede Feto Timor Leste no nia membru. Delegadas husi distritu hotu-hotu lori sira nia aspirasaun feto distrital inklui feto rural sira tama ba fase final atu bele kolia kona-ba kondisaun feto aktual no responde feto nia problema liuhusi plataforma ida.

Durante loron tolu, maizemenus 260 stakeholder inklui mos feto 65 husi distritu 13 no partisipante 36 husi Rede Feto, tur hamutuk iha GMT-Dili hodi hare fali Plataforma Asaun 2004-2008 no desidi asaun foun hodi hatan ba problema feto Timor Leste. Kongresu Nasional ne’e rasik hahu komesa loron 10 – 12 fulan Setembru 2008 no loke abertura husi Presidente Parlamentu Nasional, Fernando Lasama Araujo.

Durante loke abertura, Fernando Lasama de Araujo husu ba feto kongresista sira atu bele buka mekanismu komunikasaun atu informasaun kona ba kongresu ne’e bele to’o mos iha nivel sucos ne’eba. Fernando mos hatutan katak sei iha diskrimanasaun iha ita nia le’et tamba ne’e hare’e didiak atu ita bele kura hamutuk.

Seremonia abertura mos partisipa husi Premeiro-Ministro Xanana Gusmao, Chefe UNMIT Atul Khare, Ministra Solidaridade Domingas Alves, Vise Ministro Ekonomi Rui Manuel Hanjam, Secretaria Estadu Para Promusaun Igualdade Idelta Maria Rodrigues, Provedoria Direitus Humanus Sebastiao Ximenes, Embasador Alemanha, Dir. Banku Mundial, Reprezentante UNIFEM Jean D’Cunha, Presidente board Rede Feto Maria Dias, Fasilitador sira, Board no Sekretariado Rede Feto, Doadores, observer, Organizasaun Nasional no Internasional, inklui mos media.

Durante deskursu, Kayrala Xanana Gusmao nudar Premeiro Ministro RDTL fó parabens ba feto tomak ne’ebé estabelese ona kongresu feto Timor Leste no husu ba kongresiste sira atu bele sukat hamutuk Plano de Asaun 2008-2012 para governu no sosiedade sivil bele lao hamutuk. Xanana Gusmao nudar chefe Governo mos promete iha tinan 2009, entre Governo IV Konstitusional no Sosiedade sivil sei lao hamutuk atu bele konkreta Plataforma Asaun 2008-2012.

“Hau husu ba ita bo’ot sira atu planu de asaun ne’e atu ita hotu sukat hamutuk hodi ita hotu atu la’o hamutuk. CEDAW hanesan konvensaun ne’ebé mak importante tebes atu sai sasukat ida ba ita nia planu asaun nian. karik ita nia planu ne’e falta de rekursu finanseiru, ita sei buka hamutuk”, haktuir Premeiro Ministro RDTL Xanana Gusmao.

Jean D’Cunha nudar Reprezentante UNIFEM nomos nudar orador iha loron primeiro ne’e kolia klean liutan kona-ba programa UNIFEM liuliu programa ne’ebé atu bele hapara violensia kontra feto.

“Iha Timor Leste nomos iha fatin hotu, igualdade feto hanesan atu hatete la’e ba violensia kontra feto, involve mane no sosiedade tomak atu hamosu konsiensia tomak atu haforsa feto atu ita bele kria sosiedade ne’ebé mak diak”, esplika Jean D’Cunha.

Depois abetura, programa kongresu iha loron primeiro ne’e kontinua ho apresentasaun material kona ba CEDAW, diskriminasaun kontra feto, prioridade desenvolvementu Governo ba futuru no apresentasaun Plataforma Asaun 2004-2008.

Tama ba loron segundu, Kongresu Nasional halao eleisaun atu hili feto nain 3 sai membru Tim Verafikasaun no feto nain 1 sai chair person, vice no secretariadu nain 2. Sira mos aprova regulasi kongresu nian ba loron 3 nian. Atu bele halao dikusaun klean liutan, kongresista sira fahe ba komisaun 2. Iha komisaun ida-ida halao diskusaun ba seitor 7 hanesan feto no edukasaun, feto no politik, feto no kultura, feto no media, feto no saude, feto no ekonomia, no feto no justisa. Iha diskusaun nia laran, sira halao konsilidasaun issue no halao rekomendasaun baseia resultadu husi Konferensia Distrital. Depois diskusaun remata, groupu ida ida tenke halao presentasaun ba sira nia diskusaun.

Maski issue barak tenke deskuti no buka solusaun, kongresista sira nafatin haforsa sira nia hanoin atu bele buka solusaun diak ba problema ne’ebé feto Timor Leste hasoru too loron ikus. Iha loron terseiru, kongresu nasional feto Timor Leste hasai no aprova sira nia deklarasaun baseia husi resultadu husi diskusaun loron segundu no terseiru. Iha loron ida ne’e mos, Jun Kukita husi UNICEF hatoo nia apresentasaun. Kongresu Feto ba dala III taka ho lian menon husi Sra. Maria Dias nudar Presidente Board Rede Feto.

IMPLEMENTASAUN PLATAFORMA

Implementasaun husi Plataforma kongresu ba dala I no II hetan deit sukseu ne’ebé kiik, ida mak estabele loron 3 novembru sai hanesan loron nasional Feto Timor, kria assesora ida ba Promosaun Igualdade no ratifika konvensaun CEDAW. Maibe sei barak isu setor 7 sidauk bele implementa husi stakeholder sira. Lei violensia Domestika no Kodeku Penal ne’ebé fó benefisu diak ba feto seidauk bele implementa.

Kongresu Feto Timor Leste ba dala III lori aspasu foun ba ita atu bele akumula isu isu ne’ebé urgente atu bele hadia feto nia moris liu husi Plataforma Asaun. Ho Plataforma ida ne’e, ita bele lori feto nia kondisaun tuir ita nia hakarak, feto ne’ebé forte no la hatan diskriminasaun. Plataforma ida ne’e mos presisa dudu ba oin atu bele implementa iha programa hotu hotu liuliu iha programa governo nian. Atu bele implementa ho diak, presiza mos kria sistema ida atu bele halao monotorizasaun no evaluasaun.

Objectivu ida importante mak estabelese sistema monitorizasaun ba implementasaun Plataforma Asaun 2008 -2012. Sistema ne’e sei tau matan ba implementasaun POA baseia husi komitmentu stakeholder sira. Tim monitorizasaun kompostu husi sosiedade sivl, Governu Timor Leste, Parlament Nasional, UN ajencies no organizasan Internasional. Durante kongresu Nasional III, forum desidi Rede Feto sai hanesan koordenadora atu bele organiza tim ida ne’e.

Rede Feto Members

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_ Alola Foundation
_ APSC-TL
_ AMST
_ FOKUPERS
_ FKSH
_ FMF
_ GFFTL
_ OMT
_ OPMT
_ PAS
_ Santa Bakhita
_ Sagrada Familia
_ Assosiasaun Juristas
_ ET-WAVE
_ CAUCUS
_ UNFETIP
_ ISMAEK

Rede Feto Patners

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Goverment of Timor Leste
Development and Peace (D & P)
IRISH AID
UNIFEM
UNFPA
BRITISH EMBASSY (DFID)
CARE International
UNHCR
PLAN International
OXFAM
CONCERN
PROGRESSIO
The Asia Foundation
USAID
Finland Embassy
Caritas Australia,
GTZ
Norwegia Embassy
Secretaria Promosaun Igualdade (SEPI)
Trocaire
Blue Mountains Sisters
ETWA Australia
UNMIT
PDHJ
ONG’s National
Media National (TV, Radio, Newspaper)
Women Groups

Rede Feto Accomplishments

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Conducted 3 National Women’s Congress in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Advocated for establishment of Office for Promotion of Equality.
Advocated for the declaration of November 3 as National Women’s Day.
Reprensentation to Security Council Conference in New York, Beijing Plus 10 Conference, CEDAW andothers international conference.
Membership to the Consultative Committee on Petroleum Fund of Timor Leste.
3-Year Strategic Plan develop by most members of Rede Feto.
Implemented Humantarian Crisis Program in patnership with UN agencies
Increased and diversified funding sources.
Secretariat Office : with complete office equipment and 2 vehicles for mobility.

Rede Feto Programme

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Advocacy Program

Policy change and legislation.
Improve system in research, networking and documentation.
Pursue on –going advocacy activities.

Capacity Building Program

Regular training program for member organization and affiliates.
International exposure.
Development of tecnical resources pool

Women Assembly and Empowerment

Gender mainstreaming.
Education and training
Transformative leadership.

Information, Communication and Publication

Document best practices.
Website management.
Media relation.

Resources Development and Sustainability

Increase and diversity funds to support network programs.
Develop a revenue generating program that will sustain operational costs.
Establishment of Rede Feto Center.

REDE FETO PROFILE

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REDE FETO TIMOR LESTE is built upon its constituency – 18 women’s oganizations coming from throughout the nation. It was established on March 10, 2000 during the first National Women Conggres. It endeavors to work from a member-empowerment frame work to strengthen the organization and advocacy capacity of the member organizations to enable them to impact in advancing the status of women and their participation in national development process. Secondly, Rede Feto sets out to advocate and upholds women’s rights and advance gender issues.

Rede Feto Mission

Fight and depend the interest of women
Empowerment women in order to archieve equality rights and contribute to development
Promove women rights.

Our Vision
East Timor women are free from any of form of discrimination so that they are able to develop themselves, to advocate for their rights and are able to contribute to global development.

Our Goals
We envision Rede Feto as the leader in advocacy for women’s rights and gender quality in East Timor, have a strong presence among the national and international communities, have active and well functioning member organizations, have highly motivated and skilled staff in the secretariat, have committed and effective Board of Directors (BOD), a self sustaining organization creating lasting impact on the lives of Timorense Women.

ADVOCACY PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES 2006 – 2007

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Dili-Timor Leste/Rede Feto 2008

Involvement in KOMEG (Koligasaun Monitorisaun Eleisaun Geral/Coalition for the Monitoring of General Elections)

Rede Feto through its member Caucus: Feto Iha Politica represents Rede Feto as member of the Board of KOMEG, a coalition of NGOs and other organizations to monitor the presidential and parliamentarian elections. As a member of the Board, Caucus: Feto Iha Politica participates in its role and function ensuring the Executive Body of KOMEG in performing its work in support to the elections effectively and efficiently. Caucus also provided training on how to use the election check list and observe the processes involved in the two elections.

The results of the monitoring activities carried out by KOMEG was published and distributed to all stakeholders. The National Commission for Election (CNE) and KOMEG recommended some gaps during the April 2007 presidential election that needed improvement for the legislative election in June 2007. The key recommendations included: for the status of the Technical Secretariat for Administration of Election (STAE) to be independent, government officials should not use public properties for election campaign and for civic education to be endorsed as part of the curriculum to ensure in-depth understanding of the electoral processes.

Public debate during the presidential election

Rede Feto, OPE, UNFPA and UNIFEM organized a coordinated public debate during the presidential election on the topics such as; international relations, the security sector reform, gender-based violence (GBV) and women’s participation in the political arena first week of April 2007. The debate was directly broadcasted on television through TVTL and over the radio. The eight presidential candidates were present at the debate and were able to share their opinions on the questions raised in relation to the abovementioned topics. The public debate was moderated by the Director of Dili Institute of Technology (DIT), Joao Cancio Freitas, PhD. During the debate, the eight candidates shared their plans on how to promote women’s rights if one of them will be elected as president of RDTL. Currently, the elected president, H.E. Jose Ramos-Horta has put forward his plan to encourage women’s participation in decision making. Rede Feto continues to monitor and plans to hold a regular dialogue with the current president to ensure that the president fulfills his commitment to support women.

Public debate among political parties

Rede Feto, the Office of the Ombudsman and the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) conducted a public debate on political parties on the issues of good governance, human rights and security. Fokupers, one of the members of Rede Feto represented the network and was involved in the panel debate. The debate was directly broadcasted on television (TVTL) and over the radio. During the debate, Fokupers presented a number of cases where most women are victims of human rights violation and issues related on how political parties integrate women into their programmes and find solutions or describe the interventions on how they will implement them if ever they win in the next parliamentary election on 30 June 2007.

Public debate with women’s candidates from political parties

Rede Feto, the National University, UNFPA and UNIFEM conducted a public debate with women’s candidates from 14 registered political parties to discuss women’s issues such as: approval of the Domestic Violence Law, elimination of the patriarchal system and polygamy issues, increasing women’s leadership and participation in the political arena. Highlighted with the women from political parties during was the finalization and approval of the Women’s Platform of Action that contained seven areas of concerns including women in education, economy, health, politics, justice and security, culture and media. The debate was directly broadcasted through radio Timor-Leste and the issues in the platform were continuously raised during the campaign for the 2007 legislative election.

Rede Feto representation at the National Electoral Commission (CNE)

Two members of Rede Feto namely: Fokupers and Caucus: Feto Iha Politica represented Rede Feto at the National Electoral Commission (CNE). The mandate of CNE stands for six years to monitor and supervise the process of the presidential and legislative elections and to prepare for the 2009 village or suco and municipal elections following the approval of the Decentralization Law. From the two members, one is a permanent member whilst the other is as supplementary member. Integral part of their responsibility is to ensure that the gender perspective is integrated in all processes of the elections. For example, the electoral law states that, “one out of every four candidates that are nominated must be female”. The CNE members were able to ensure that all the lists of candidates submitted by the political parties nominated one female candidate for every list of 4 candidates. With political parties that did not follow the law, the CNE returned the list back to the concerned political parties for their review to enable them to be guided by the law as approved. CNE had the authority to approve or not approve the lists submitted.

Provided recommendations to the National Parliament on the Amnesty and Pardon Law

In January, the National Parliament invited Rede Feto to provide its comments and recommendations on the draft Law of Amnesty and Pardon that was prepared by the National Parliament. Rede Feto organized several discussions with its members and provided the appropriate and important comments and views that have to be considered. In addition to the comments submitted to Commission A of the National Parliament, Rede Feto also submitted a written report to ensure that they are considered in the final version of the law.

The focus of the comments to the draft law was on the negative impact of certain provisions in the law towards women and children who become victims and survivors of gender-based violence. After obtaining all comments from civil society organizations and religious groups, the National Parliament decided to pass the law but unfortunately in the end, did not as well consider all the inputs that were earlier submitted. It was realized that this law was drafted by the majority members of the ruling party in the National Parliament and its initial intention was to protect the “author” of the crisis in 2006 which involved one of the former minister of the previous government. The law has now been submitted to the Office of the President for promulgation after it was forwarded to the law to Court of Appeal for review.

One-day Conference on Media and Women

Rede Feto, UNMIT and UNIFEM organized a one-day conference on Media and Women on June 9, held a the conference hall of the Salesian Congregation at Comoro, Dili, The 100 participants during the conference were composed of representatives from women’s organization, journalists and the 14 political parties, members of the National Electoral Commission (CNE). The conference ended with a set of recommendations for the media to intensively write and broadcast women’s issues so that the population will be aware of women issues and promote women’s rights in their daily lives.

Television debate on the processes of the presidential and legislative elections

Rede Feto was invited to participate in an interactive programme on television focused on the processes involved in carrying out the presidential and legislative elections that were held in April and June 2007, respectively. The programme was held in collaboration with CNE and TVTL and was broadcasted on television (TVTL) everyday during the political campaign period. The President of the Board of Rede Feto and the Director of Caucus: Feto Iha Politica represented Rede Feto in the talk show in two occasions or schedules. They were invited to talk about how the gender perspectives are mainstreamed in the processes of the presidential and legislative elections.

Commemoration of International Women’s Day

The celebration of the International Women’s Day was conducted by Rede Feto for two days. With a national theme, “Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women”, the celebration commenced on March 7 to 8, 2007 with several activities which were participated in by its member organizations. The overall activity coordinator was GFFTL, an NGO member of Rede Feto. The objectives of this programme were to raise awareness of the civil society on the effects of impunity on people especially women and to promote peace and harmony in Timor-Leste. More.................

Media campaign on election

Rede Feto conducted a number of media campaign activities prior to the 2007 presidential and legislative elections. A press release was prepared focused on the importance of women’s voters in the two elections in order to change women’s position in life considering that number of women is half of the population of Timor-Leste. The objectives of these activities were to encourage women to vote to achieve change and ensure that their votes are based on their rational choice. The message was not only broadcasted through Radio and television but also through post card which was distributed to all population in Timor-Leste. These activities were carried out in collaboration with Alola Foundation, a member-NGO of Rede Feto. The substantive media support particularly the messages on activities conducted had resulted women voters turn out of almost 50 percent.

Rede Feto invited by President of RDTL to review the electoral law

Rede Feto was invited by the Office of the President to comment on the recent changes on some of the provisions of the electoral law. The National Parliament reviewed and approved some articles related to the location of the counting of votes in districts. Rede Feto also presented its comments on the advantages and disadvantages of changes made on the provisions or articles of the law. After consultation with all the stakeholders, the newly-elected President, H.E. Jose Ramos-Horta finally promulgated the revised electoral law. It is significant to note however, that the civil society organizations were against the changes on the location in the electoral law because it was considered against the principles of transparency and rights to access for information by people at village level.

Rede Feto witnessed the signing ceremony of Code of Conduct of political parties

Rede Feto was invited to witness the signing of the Political Parties Accords in which all political parties declared their commitment to maintain peaceful campaign, avoid violence and follow the rules that are stated in the document. Rede Feto participation during the signing ceremony was to be one of the official witnesses to ensure the importance and usefulness of the code of conduct of political parties for the presidential and legislative elections.

Assessment and dissemination of the results of the Second National Women’s Congress to members and other stakeholders.

An assessment of the results of the Second National Women’s Congress 2004 based on the Platform of Action (POA) was conducted by the Advocacy Officer of Rede Feto. The Officer interviewed representatives from institutions and organizations representing various sectors to include; Rede Feto members, government departments and United Nations (UN) agencies. Before the conduct of the interviews, a structured questionnaire was developed and sent to each of the organizations identified to be part of the interview. It was followed by individual interviews of which the results were collated, interpreted and analyzed. The draft report was sent to stakeholders for review prior to finalization. The same report will be one of the documentation that will be used in preparation for the Third National Congress that is due to be held in 2008.

Commemoration of International Women’s Day 2007

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Dili-Timor Leste/March 2007

The activities conducted were:

Discussion on the Veterans Law

This activity was held on 28 February at the Office of Rede Feto with three members from the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs and Rede Feto members. The objective of the discussion was to explain the contents of the Veterans Law and the whole process of giving pension and awards to veterans. An important issue raised in the discussion was on “loyalty” which in principle referred to women who were eligible for the pension but were ignored in the Veterans Law. For instance, the pension plan did not consider widows who remarried for the second time despite spending their entire lives devoted to their husbands in the struggle for independence.

The veteran law focuses only to widows who did not remarry and there was no mention at all about the widowers. There was a negative stereotype among those who were involved in drafting the Law. They prefer to see that women who are not married again will consider as loyal to husbands and thus are considered or entitle to be given the award.

Workshop on book drafting

A one-day workshop was held at the Office of Rede Feto to analyze, review and gather views or comments and suggestions from all members in the revision of a draft book entitled “Hau fo Midar, hau Simu Moruk” before its official launch. The participants during the workshop were from Rede Feto Board of Directors, members and the Executive Body including the story tellers, and representatives from OPE, Oxfam Australia and Progressio. There were several suggestions on how to improve the first draft of the book such as; changing the theme of the book, to simplify and improve its gender analysis, revise some of the ideas from the story tellers, choosing the right pictures and poems to be included. Also discussed were the next steps or actions to be taken which include an advocacy on the amendment of this law and on lobbying with relevant institutions.

Promotion of local products: “Weaving for Life”

The promotion of local products was implemented on 7 to 8 of March that involved Rede Feto members and target groups including the women at Don Bosco’s IDP and the Hafoti group as Progressio’s target group. The women’s groups expressed that the event was very useful because it helped increase their income. One of the participants recommended Rede Feto to continue in conducting an open bazaar at least a quarterly basis as it helps its members. She also mentioned that during the crisis, people were not buying their products due to security reasons, but after the bazaar it had helped them a lot. The bazaar enabled more people to recognize the existence of their group. To continue the promotion of local products, Rede Feto opened a corner or space for them to sell their products at the network’s office.

Book launch on “Medal of Recognition”

The book entitled “Hau fo Midar, Hau Simu Moruk, was launched on 8 March by the Advisor to the Prime Minister on gender equality (OPE). There was a total of 925 copies of the book distributed to members of the National Parliament, government line ministries, District Administrators, Gender Focal Points, universities and Rede Feto members and other stakeholders.

In her speech during the launch, Ms. Aurora Ximenes, the Advisor at OPE emphasized that Timorese women continuously face all kinds of discrimination in their daily life. She cited that violence against women occurs not only in conflict situation but also in normal situation. Also, she advised all participants to pay more attention to end violence and any kind of discrimination by educating children with peace and harmony at home as well as at school. She pointed out the importance of taking up the responsibility of ending violence in their community through activities that will enhance the skills of the youth. At the same time, to enhance the knowledge of the youth on human rights through civic education activities in promoting peace in the community. In addition, she finally recommended the need for Government to pass a law that would promote and protect women’s rights and ensure its implementation.

Messages from two presidential candidates

During the celebration of the International Women’s Day, two of the presidential candidates were able to deliver their messages during the ceremony.

1.) Ms. Lucia Lobato, female candidate representing the Social Democrat Party or PSD

Ms. Lobato stated that the ongoing conflict in Timor-Leste has affected women and limited their access to education. More women are illiterate and had dropped out from school because their parents could not afford in continuously sending their children to school. Ms. Lobato stated that “If in the future she is elected to be president of Timor-Leste, she will emphasize in her programme the importance of providing scholarships to people who have intellectual capacity but are unable to go to school due to school fees”. She mentioned that a scholarship benefit is an important programme especially for women because they are still being considered as second class citizens which is basically rooted in the Timorese society.

Being the only female candidate during the presidential race, Ms. Lobato disclosed that just like other Timorese women, she also have the same experience going through all sorts of difficulties but was able to survive by having received a scholarship. Having completed her education, she has improved her quality as a woman with the aim of helping other women her age who were unable to enjoy much due to limited education. Ms. Lobato briefly told her story related to how she completed her education. She informed; “In her early years, she used to pay her school fees because her parents died when her brothers and sisters were still young. Since she was committed to finish her education, she searched for the appropriate scholarship for her. Based from her experience, she learned that having scholarship programmes for Timorese women is very important because it is only through higher education that can change women’s life and be treated well and become independent and be able to get out of poverty.

2) Mr. Avelino Coelho, male candidate representing PST

In his speech, Mr. Coelho mentioned about the importance of involving men in the promotion of women’s rights. If women work by themselves (without the men cooperating) to advance their rights, it will not help a lot and therefore not change the patriarchal system that have prevailed for a long time. He cited that in order to end discrimination against women and children, all sectors should work together at all levels and to end discriminatory patterns which lead towards inequality. Mr. Coelho added that he would be interested to participate himself and ensure that its implementation goes well.

Talk show in TVTL

Rede Feto together with OPE, organized a “talk show” on TVTL called “Hanoin Lisuk” shown on 8 March. The resource persons invited to be part of the panel were Ms. Maria Barreto, one of Rede Feto’s Board of Directors, Ms. Aurora Ximenes, Adviser for the Prime Minister and a high-ranking official of the Timor-Leste National Police (PNTL). The theme for the talk show was “Ending impunity for violence against women and ensure justice for victims”.

Publication of Salurik Bulletin

As regularly proposed to be prepared, Rede Feto continued with its Salurik bulletin every quarter. A special edition was published in line with the celebration of the International Women’s Day. The focus was about the discriminating law that was approved by the National Parliament giving impunity for those who were involved in crimes. It also included Rede Feto’s activities for the last quarter and a one-page features describing FKSH, as one of the members of Rede Feto. There were 350 copies of Salurik printed and distributed to government ministries, members of the National Parliament, Rede Feto members and other stakeholders.***

SAIDA MAK KOMUNIDADE RURAIS HANOIN KONA BA VIOLÉNSIA BAZEIA BA JENERU?

2008-02-13T19:15:00.000-08:00

Durante komemora loron 16 Aktivismu Kontra Violénsia Hasoru Feto, Rede Feto liu hosi nia membrus OMT/FINAHADA, FOKUPERS, GFFTL no servisu hamutuk ho AMKV hala’o aktividade iha sub-distritu lima iha distritu Lautem, Viqueque, Maliana, Suai, Ermera no Liquiça. Objetivu hosi workshop ne’e mak atu involve mane hapara violénsia kontra feto no hasa’e konsiénsia ba komunidade katak violénsia domestika ne’e hahalok krime ida no presiza komunidade nia suporta atu hapara violénsia ne’e. Durante workshop ne’ebé hahú iha loron 25 Novembru to’o 10 Dezembru 2007, perguntas barak mak mósu relasiona ho problema ne’ebé akontese iha uma laran. Tuir mai ita sei haree;

P: Violénsia Domestika mósu la’os de’it ba ema ki’ik sira maibé ema boot sira. Nu’udar organizasaun ne’ebé interese ba problema violénsia domestika oinsá atu fó apoiu ba feto maluk sira ne’ebé sai vitima ba Violénsia Domestika.
R: Los duni katak autor ba violénsia domestika la’os de’it ema kiik sira maibé ema boot mós. Tuir dadus hosi Fókupers hanesan membrus Rede Feto nian hateten katak autor ba violénsia domestika ne’e mai hosi Parlamentu Nasionál, membrus governu, dosente universidade, membrus hosi PNTL rasik no nomós orgaun kompetentes seluk ne’ebé tuir loloos sira mak fó protesaun ba ema nia direitu maibé justru sira mak viola fali direitu ema nian inklui feto sira ne’ebé sai vitima ba violénsia domestika. Liu hosi membrus Fókupers nia servisu, sira fó ona asisténsia ba feto vitima sira liu hosi asisténsia konseling no legal, Uma Mahon no apoiu atu lori vitima sira ba prosesu tribunál. Sira mós fahe informasaun kona-ba saida mak violénsia bazeia ba jéneru no oinsá atu prevene violénsia hirak ne’e. Informasaun hirak ne’e sira haktuir husi Radio, TVTL, Buletin, newsletters, brosur no pamfletu.

P: Violénsia seksuál mosu tanba agora feto sira hatais roupa oinoin hodi provoka mane sira halo violénsia. Ne’e los ka sala?
R. Tuir dadus hateten katak violénsia seksuál ne’e akontese barak liu ba labarik sira no ferik sira duké ba feto ran sira. Autor ba violénsia hirak ne’e mak aman, padrastu, tiun, maun, primu, kuñadu no ema hirak ne’ebé vitima koñese. Labarik sira ne’ebé hetan violasaun seksuál mak hahú hosi tinan 0-12. Oinsá ho idade hanesan ne’e, sira nia isin ne’e bele atrai ona mane sira no oinsá labarik no ferik sira ne’e hatais roupa ne’ebé seksi no mengundang ka provoka atensaun mane maluk nian? Ida ne’e hatudu katak la’os roupa mak halo atu hamosu violénsia maibé tanba
author mane hirak ne’e mak uza poder hanesan mane ne’ebé domina ho ninia superioridade atu hatuun feto nia dignidade.

P: Ohin loron bainhira ko’alia ba direitus umanus, feto sira lori sira nia direitu atu hakarak halo divorsiu. Oinsá Rede Feto nia haree?
R. Tuir loloos bainhira iha problema ruma sei rezolve hamutuk ho di’ak la’os liu hosi violénsia. “Igreja Katolika nia posizaun kona-ba divorsiu mak hanesan tuir mai: Igreja la permiti ka la hatan kaben-na’in sira atu fahe malu ka halo divorsiu. Maibé bainhira iha uma-kain ida nia laran ida seluk la respeita ona ida fali hodi halo violénsia, mak ema ne’e iha ninia direitu atu dada an, nia iha direitu atu protesta ba institisaun ne’ebé mak fó justisa, tanba ema hotu-hotu iha direitu atu moris livre no moris feliz”.(Bispo D. Basilio Nascimento- hato’o iha Seminar Jubileu Familia-tinan 200 Canossiana).

P: Agora ita haree prostitusaun mós barak iha Dili, feto barak mak mai husi li’ur no halo vida hanesan ne’e no ida ne’e fó influénsia negativu ba ita-nia joven sira iha futuru mai? Oinsá Rede Feto nia hanoin?
R: Profisaun hanesan sex worker/ komersio sex/pekerja seks komersial(PSK) la’os ema liur mak lori mai, maibé, iha nanis kedas ona iha vida ema moris lor-loron nian tanba nesesidade biolojika ema nian. Iha fatin hotu-hotu ita haree fenomena sosiál ida ne’e. Iha faktor hirak ne’ebé hamosu prostituisaun, mak hanesan: pobreza/kiak, vitima husi violénsia sexuál, edukasaun la to’o, faktor moral no mós tanba organizada hosi ema hirak ne’ebé iha poder. Tuir Kodigu Penal Timor Leste, profisaun hanesan ne’e la bandu iha lei maibé ema hirak ne’ebé sai mata dalan, faan ema no organiza PSK mak kontra lei Kódigu Penál. Rede Feto liu husi nia membru Fundasaun Alola halo ona peskiza ba kazu ida ne’e no rezultado hatudu katak ema hirak ne’ebé hili profisaun hanesan ne’e tanba sira sai vitima ba violasaun seksuál, incestu, la’en soe hela, no seluk tan. Iha parte seluk, organizasaun Hari Aumetan fó asisténsia ba feto maluk sira iha área ida ne’e liu husi fahe informasaun no treinamentu nomós liu husi asisténsia sosiál.

P: Bainhira fila hikas husi servisu mai, oras atu han nian maibé hahan seidauk prontu. Tanba feen la halo nia kna’ar loloos mak ha’u hanesan la’en baku ha’u-nia feen, oinsá ita haree ida ne’e?
R: Ema hotu-hotu rekoñese servisu ne’ebé iha saláriu duké servisu iha uma laran ka servisu domestika. Maibé bainhira ita hakarak haree didi’ak servisu iha uma laran kompora servisu iha liur/servisu ne’ebé hetan salariu, servisu uma laran todan. Karik bainhira la’en fila ba uma no hahan seidauk prontu iha meza leten, nia husu lai tanba sa mak hahán seidauk prontu no nia bele ajuda nia feen atu rezolve situasaun ne’ebé iha, no la’os uza emosaun liu husi violénsia. Dala barak feto sira ne’ebé hala’o knaar iha uma, bainhira ema husu sira, sira hatan “ha’u la servisu, iha uma de’it”. Feto rasik la valoriza servisu ne’ebé nia hala’o ho kolen no lori oras barak, hahú husi dader to’o kalan. Karik tau ema ruma iha uma atu hala’o servisu ne’ebé bainbain feen ho oan sira halo entaun ita tenke selu osan ba ema ne’e. Tanba ne’e la’en sira tenke rekoñese servisu iha uma laran. ***

“Involve Mane Atu Hapara Violensia Kontra Feto”.

2008-02-13T18:18:00.000-08:00

Iha dia 17, fulan Dezembru 1999, Asembleia Jeral ONU hili ona dia 25 Novembru sai nudar loron internasional ba eliminasaun violénsia hasoru feto sira. ONU mos konvida governu sira, organizasaun internasional no ONG nasional atu organiza atividade sira ho objetivu atu hasae koñesementu publiku konaba asuntu ne’e. Komesa tinan 1999, maizumenus organizasaun 1.700 iha nasaun 130 inklui mos Timor Leste partisipa tiha ona iha kampana Loron 16 nian. Loron kampana ne’e refere ba periodu loron 25 Novembru to’o Loron Direitus Umanus ne’ebe monu iha 10 Dezembru.
Loron 25 Novembru sai loron bo’ot ida ba feto iha mundu tomak tamba iha loron ida ne’e iha tinan 1960, akontese tragedia boot iha nasaun Dominika ne’ebe halo feto ativista nain tolu hetan tortura, violénsia no oho husi rezim militar Dominika. Sira nain tolu hanaran Minerva, Maria Tereza no Patriacia Mirabel hanesan ativista klandestina ida ne’ebe kontra rezim militar Jeneral Tujilo. Ema koñese hanesan “La Miraposa” ne’ebe governu hare hanesan aitarak iha sira nia ukun tamba sira nia atividade iha movimentu sosial no politika liu husi igreja iha ne’eba. Maski sira ema oho ona, nia aman Don Enrique Mirabal luta nafatin kontra rezim Jeneral Tujilo. “La Miraposa” hatudu ona sira mos bele halo luta hanesan sira nian laen maski sira hatene sira bele hetan amiasa boot husi militar.
Ba tinan 2007, governu RDTL, PDHJ, Organizasaun Internasioanal no ONG lokal hari komisaun ida atu komemora kampaña loron 16 Aktivismu Kontra Violénsia ba Feto. Rede Feto hanesan mos komisaun organizadora ba selebrasaun ida ne’e hamutuk ho 18 membru organizasaun halao atividade oioin iha nivel nasional no distritu. Atividade ida nee mos sai hanesan programa advokasia ida atu bele fahe informasaun kona-ba direitu feto no fo informasaun diak liu tan. Ba tinan 2007, Rede Feto foti topiku hanesan “Involve Mane atu Hapara Violénsia Kontra Feto” ho objetivu oinsa atu hapara violénsia ne’ebe mosu iha komunidade liu husi mane sira. Mane hanesan parte ida importante atu bele reduz no hapara violénsia domestika iha Timor Leste liu husi dalan advokasia. Tan ne’e persiza kria mekanismu no estratejia ne’ebe diak, atu oinsa mane sira bele sai hanesan parseiru ba feto maluk sira baseia ba resultadu husi Konferensia Bangkok 2007.
Iha nivel distritu, Rede Feto halao atividade workshop iha distritu Los Palos, Viqueque, Maliana no distritu Suai. Iha nivel nasional, Rede Feto hamutuk ho organizasaun Asosiasaun Mane Kontra Violénsia (AMKV) halao workshop loron ida ho topiku “Involve Mane Atu Hapara Violénsia Kontra Feto” ne’ebe halao iha Salaun Centru Juvenil - Taibesi. Workshop nebe halao iha dia 5 Dezembru 2007 ho objetivu oinsa bele involve organizasaun mane no lider komunidade sira atu bele halao kampaña ida ba lei violénsia domestika ne’ebe seidauk aprova. Iha nivel distritu, komesa loron 4 Dezembru 2007, Rede Feto Timor Leste hamutuk ho Assosiasaun Mane Kontra Violensia (AMKV) halao atividade ida iha 5 sub distritu Los Palos hanesan sub distritu Luro, Tutuala, Iliomar, Moro no Los Palos Kota. Husi atividade ida nee, Rede Feto hakarak habelar informasaun kona-ba Loron 16 Aktivismu Kontra Violénsia nian.
Workshop ne’ebe halao iha 5 sub distritu Los Palos hetan antusiasmu diak husi feto no mane sira inklui mos orgaun husi Governo Lokal hanesan Adminitrador Sub Distritu, membru PNTL distritu, Chefe Suco no Chefe Aldeia. Fasilitador husi Rede Feto no AMKV halao diskusaun interativu kona-ba jeneru, violénsia baseia ba jeneru, CEDAW no Resolusaun Bangkok. Husi diskusaun ne’e mosu pergunta barak husi partisipante sira hanesan problema aihan iha uma laran, fen ladun halao nia funsaun ho diak, violénsia ba labarik sira iha uma laran, responsibilidade husi mane nebe fo oan ba feto, no problema seluk tan. Salurik sei hatun pergunta hirak ne’e iha pagina 7 atu bele habelar informasaun ba lei nain sira. Husi diskusaun nee, populasaun husi sub distrito Luro fo agradese tebes, tamba Rede Feto bele implementa programa ida nee to’o iha base hodi hasae sira ninia komprendesaun kona-ba violénsia domestika ne’ebe mosu iha sira nia let. Nomos atu bele kria mekanismu ne’ebe diak liu para bele hamenus violénsia hirak ne’e, liu husi lei Konvensaun Eliminasaun Diskriminasaun Kontra Feto (CEDAW). Sira mos sente katak liu husi workshop ida ne’e ho topiku “ Involve Mane Atu Hapara Violensia Kontra Feto” bele reflekta mane ninia hahalok atu hapara violensia domestika iha sira nia let.
Iha parte seluk, FOKUPERS hanesan membru Rede Feto halao mos komemora Loron 16 Aktivismu Kontra Violensia. Iha Suai, FOKUPERS fahe ka habelar informasaun sobre violensia domestika hasoru feto atu nunee komunidade sivil bele iha konesementu diak liu kona ba asuntu ida nee. Atividade ida nee mos hetan resposta diak husi lider komunidade nomos sira husu para atividade hanesan nee bele kontinua halo iha nivel distritu. Loron 25 Novembru hatudu ba ita, atu hetan liberdade presiza sacrifiu bot hanesan mos ita nia luta husi violensia domestika mos presiza feto Timor Leste nia luta. Violensia domestika hanesan problema ida nebe nasaun hot-hotu hasoru. Tamba ne’e atu persiza duni halao kampanha iha nivel nasional no iha area rural tamba realidade hatete violensia domestika barak liu akontese iha area rural. Durante tinan barak ona, feto Timor Leste moris iha violensia oi-oin ho nune feto sira lalika tauk atu fo sai kona ba violensia nebe mak sira hasoru. Kuando Timor Leste laiha lei ida kona ba Violensia Domestika, feto barak nebe sai vitima ba violensia ne’eiha tinan-tinan bele aumenta bebeik. Atu hapara violensia kontra feto, membru Parlementu Nasional, membru Governu, organizasaun internasional, ONG lokal, mane sira nomos komunidade tomak tenke fo liman ba malu atu lei violensia domestika agora dadaun iha Parlamentu Nasional nia liman bele aprova lalais. ***

HABERAN FETO NIA DIREITU HUSI POLITIKA LEGISLASAUN

2008-02-13T16:28:00.001-08:00

Loron 3 Novembru, Timor Leste komemora hanesan loron ida importante ba feto maluk sira. Iha loron ida nee feto ida naran Maria, nia ema husi rai Tapo ho aten brani tiru malu hasoru imigu no mate iha linha de fogo antes loron invasaun 7 Dezembru 1975. Nia hanesan primeira figura exemplar hodi fo’an ba funu libertasaun nasional. Hafoin ukun an, Parlementu Nasional ofisialmente aprova Lei.17/I/3/2005 nudar Loron Nasional Feto Timor Leste nebe rekomenda husi OPMT liu husi Segundu Kongresu Nasional Feto TL iha Junhu 2004 ba estadu Timor Leste hodi rekoñese no valoriza kontribuisaun feto TL iha luta ba ukun rasik an.
Rede Feto hanesan salurik ba 18 organizasaun feto hari komisaun organizadora ida atu bele komemora loron ida ne’e. Iha nivel nasional, Rede Feto halao workshop ida ho topiku “Haberan Feto Nia Direitus Liu Husi Politika Legislasaun”. Workshop ida ne’e halao iha loron 3 Novembru 2007, iha Salaun Memorial Hall - Farol. Maski monu iha loron feriadu, atividade ida ne’e hetan partisipasaun makaas husi governu, ONG no feto maluk sira husi distritu. Partisipa mos membru Parlemento Nasional, Ministru Ekonomia no Dezenvolvimento, Ministru Edukasaun, Ministra Solidaridade Sosial, Vice Minitra Saude no Adjunto Provedor Direitus Umanus. Iha loron ida ne’e Rede Feto fo oportunidade ba feto maluk sira atu bele hato’o sira nia problema ba orgaun governu sira. Diskusaun interativu ne’e mos hanesan parte ida atu bele rezolve ba problema feto maluk sira liu-liu husi area rurais atu bele haberan feto nia direitu iha Timor Leste.
Partisipante sira satisfeitu ho workshop ida ne’e tamba sira bele hetan informasaun direita husi orgaun governu ne’ebe sai orador iha workshop ida ne’e. Hatan ba problema feto maluk sira enfrenta hanesan dalan, sasan la folin no seluk tan, governu promete atu buka solusaun ba resolve problema iha base liu plano estrategia ba tinan lima. Iha programa ida ne’e mos hatudu kona ba musika no teatro.
Iha 2 Novembru 2007 kalan, Rede Feto mos halao debate interativu ida liu husi programa TVTL nian. ho topiku “Haberan Feto Nia Direitu liu Politika Legislasaun”. Ba debate ida ne’e, Rede Feto konvida Vice Presidente PN Nasional, Maria Paixao no Direitora Executiva Rede Feto, Ubalda Alves hanesan orador. Durante oras ida, Maria Paixao hanesan mos Presidente Grupu Feto Parlementu esplika kona ba situasaun feto Timor Leste nebe inferenta problema barak iha moris lor-loron relasaun ho sistema patriakal iha Timor Leste no saida mak Parlementu atu bele haberan direitu feto nian liu legislativa. Dialogo ne’e mos hetan pergunta barak husi telespektadores liu-liu mane sira relasaun ho problema kultura no uma laran. Iha Maliana, Rede Feto hamutuk Caucus Feto iha Politika distribui 2000 pamfletu kona ba historia Maria Tapo ba estudante no komunidade iha neba. Objectivu husi distribuisaun pamfletu ne’e para sira la bele haluha ho luta ne’ebe feto maluk sira husi Tapo. ***

CEDAW SHADOW REPORT

2008-01-10T19:57:00.000-08:00

TOT On CEDAW and SHADOW Report Writing Workshop for NGOs

On 6-10 August 2007, Rede Feto in partnership with UNIFEM, conducted a 5- day workshop which was divided into two parts: the first part was the training of trainers on CEDAW for two days; and the second part, a three-day for workshop on the Shadow Report. The participants to this workshop were Rede Feto members who had programmes providing training and education for communities and for IDP camps. In the second part of the workshop, some members of Rede Feto and other stakeholders such as: the Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) and Men Association Against Violence (AMKV) attended the shadow report. The workshop was held at Juvenile Centre in Taibesi, Dili with facilitators from Australia who had vast experience in drafting the Australian Shadow Report.

The aim of the training was to increase/enhance the skills of Timorese NGOs to leading CEDAW-related activities especially trainings It was aimed to enhance the capacity of NGO members to raise awareness and develop their understanding as trainers on CEDAW and also helped develop or expand a long-term pool of resource persons who can conduct trainings and provide technical assistant on CEDAW, both at the local and national levels. The training was also aimed at strengthening the abilities of individuals in conducting trainings. The objectives of the workshop were:

To strengthen NGOs knowledge on CEDAW especially on how to lead CEDAW trainings and provide technical assistance on the CEDAW training;
To develop more skills amongst women’s activists in order to become resource persons on CEDAW and as CEDAW trainers;
To develop their basic skills in shadow report writing; and
To strengthen the capacity of NGOs in integrating CEDAW principles into its mandate, organizational processes, systems and practices, programmes and advocacy.

The increased the knowledge and skills of Rede Feto members in facilitating training and understand the process of writing shadow report, increased knowledge about the module on CEDAW training and learnt experiences from other countries such as Australia in writing a shadow report and one how to analyze a CEDAW State report.

Recruitment of a National Coordinator

After some time of recruiting a National Coordinator for the project, Rede Feto decided to award the project to one of its members to lead the implementation with the involvement of other members and stakeholders to participate in the process of consultation and actual writing shadow report. The Women’s Caucus or Caucus: Feto Iha Politica was agreed to be responsible in taking the lead role and coordinate the programme for one year. Rede Feto will monitor the implementation and ensure the program meet the objectives and ensure compliance to the project’s budget as planned. The National Coordinator recruited for the project was Ms. Laura Pina, former Executive Director of Rede Feto in 2003-2005.

Preparation and work planning

The National Coordinator developed a draft work plan for one-year in consultation with UNIFEM, the CEDAW working group and Rede Feto’s Advisor. The work plan focused on the priority activities especially those that were not implemented during the first few months of the project.

Regular Meeting

The Women’s Caucus had conducted 3 regular meetings with the CEDAW working group. The first meeting was held on 31 March involving 13 participants from Rede Feto as members of the working group. The objective of the meeting was to present and the one-year work plan. The work plan was approved by the CEDAW working group. The second working group meeting was held on 15 April at UNTL which involved 5 lecturers from National University of TL, Dili Institute, AKAKOM, Dili University to discuss the possibility of their involvement in the working group and participate in thematic issues that have been chosen. Finally, the third meeting was held on 28 April 28 at the office of Caucus: Feto Iha Politica with 28 participants. The group decided to choose 8 facilitators to be responsible in facilitating the thematic issues such; Group one to discuss articles 1-5 with Ms. Rosa de Sousa, Fokupers Executive Director as facilitator. Group 2 on Violence Against Women to be facilitated by Ms. Maria Barreto, Advocacy Programme Manager of Fokupers and Rede Feto Board member. Group 3 will discuss about education and will be facilitated by Filomena Fuca and Odete Amaral, Coordinator of GFFTL. Group 4 on Health and will be facilitated by Ambrozio from PAS. Group 5 on Livelihood, private sectors and will be facilitated by Fundasaun Alola, Maria Madalena. Group 6 on Marriage and family, culture and will facilitate Dinorah. Group 7 on Justice, Politic and Employment and will be facilitated by Luis and Agnes. Group 8 on Social Services and will facilitate by Mr. Olivio AMKV.

Re-coaching Workshop Activities

In the first meeting, the working groups were concerned about their roles and functions in the implementation of the CEDAW Shadow report. They were confused on how to start the work because there were no meetings to clarify their concerns. Based on the problems, the team decided to conduct a one-day workshop on the review and re-orientation on the roles and functions of each working group. The workshop was facilitated by Ms. Repelita Tambunan, CEDAW-SEAP National Coordinator from UNIFEM, the Rede Feto Advisor and the National Coordinator of the CEDAW Shadow Report project. The workshope ended with the following results: a) the working groups understood their roles such as to collect information or gather data and cases and interview with target group and read and analyze the State Report and write an alternative report on CEDAW. b) decided on 8 thematic issues to focus on and c) worked on a plan to conduct regional consultation in district that will be done in May to June 2008. The first workshop was agreed to be conducted in Dili on 6-7 May which involved the districts of Aileu and Manatuto, the second workshop on 15-16 May in Suai that involved the districts of Same and Ainaro districts, the third workshop on 22-23 May that involved Liquica and 2 other districts Ermera and Bobonaro. The fourth workshop was conducted on 27 to 28 May held in the district of Baucau and that covered the districts of Viqueque and Lospalos. The last regional workshop was held on 4 to 5 June in the district of Oecussi.

Preparations for the regional workshops in the 5 regions

Before conducting the regional workshops, the project staff at the Secretariat of Rede Feto coordinated and lobbied with stakeholders in the districts through the District Laison Officer (DLO) of the NGO Forum, local NGOs and leaders of women’s organizations in the districts, in identifying potential participants to the regional workshops based on the criteria of the Working Group of CEDAW. The TOR and invitation were drafted by the National Coordinator and were distributed to stakeholders in the districts for review.

Conducted regional workshop related to women’s issues

Rede Feto, through its NGO member Caucus: Feto Iha Politica, implemented a regional workshop on that was held on May to June 2008. The workshop provided information on various cases related to women’s issues. The workshop involved NGO members of Rede Feto and other local NGOs in the districts and other civil society organizations. The participants were enthusiastic about the information sharing particularly the topic focused on CEDAW, with some of the participants having heard about it for the first time.

HUMAN RIGHTS PROMOTION AND GBV PREVENTION

2008-01-09T19:56:00.000-08:00

One of the programme of Rede Feto supported by the Government of Finland and Irish Aid is to promote women’s rights and gender equality in school and out-of-school youth and children. With the out- of- school group, Rede Feto through its members FMF, GFFTL and PAS, conducted a training for women of council of villages and husbands and wives in villages in 3 the districts. The total number of participants who undertook the training were 805 from December 2007 until May 2008. The GFFTL conducted training to 231 participants in Baucau district. From the 231, women are 125 and men are 106. PAS conducted training to 367 participants in Dili district. From the 367, men are 180 and women are 187. FMF conducted training to 207 participants in Liquica district. From 207 participants, 100 were women and 107 men. Rede Feto has planed to conduct training to students and teachers on human rights and gender equality in the same three districts.

Meeting with the Minister of Education to integrate of human rights and gender equality into the school curriculum

The Program Officer of human rights and gender equality together with the Executive Director of Rede Feto met with the Minister of Education to discuss the possibility of integrating human rights and gender equality in the curriculum and to conduct training for teachers and students on these topics. It was agreed that Rede Feto and the Minister of Education will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to implement the programmes in schools in the three pre-selected districts.

WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY AND EMPOWERMENT

2008-01-08T19:54:00.000-08:00

Conducted needs assessment to women’s desk in political parties

The Executive Body of Rede Feto has extended its programme to the empowerment of the women’s assembly or the women’s wings of the political parties in Timor-Leste. The objective of the programme is to ensure that the women’s organization in political parties are able increase their knowledge on the gender perspectives and women’s rights and how they are able to integrate them into their political parties’ policies and internal regulations. Given the importance of the programme, Rede Feto had approached the heads of the political parties at the National Parliament to discuss about the programme, which they have agreed accordingly to the ideas of Rede Feto. In line with this, the Capacity Building Officer of Rede Feto conducted a needs assessment with the women’s organizations in the political parties to discuss their needs and problems and on how Rede Feto can provide the necessary support. Together with representatives of the women’s organizations, we identified the training programes that are needed by them such as gender analysis, women’s rights, leadership skills, public speaking, and on organizational development. Rede Feto has also requested the support of UNIFEM and UNMIT in the conduct of the training.

Training on Gender and Leadership

On the basis of the needs assessment conducted, the Rede Feto Capacity Building Programme provided continued support by conducting a training to 50 participants from women’s organization in political parties such as CNRT, PUN, PSD, ASDT, UNDERTIM and PD. The training was provided in collaboration with UNIFEM, Caucus: Feto Iha Politica and Rede Feto. The participants were very enthusiastic in attending the training because they have gained additional knowledge and skills most especially in encouraging them to be more self confident. They have requested for Rede Feto’s continued support through training.

Training on writing a proposals and reports

The Rede Feto Capacity Building Officer and Advisor conducted a 1-day training on writing proposals to women’s organizations of political parties. The total participants were 15 representing. The participants are currently preparing their proposals for submission to donors and government to support their activities.

CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES 2007 – JUNE 2008

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Worked towards increased and diversified funding base of the network

Rede Feto and UNIFEM prepared a proposal on Enhancing Women’s Role in Timor-Leste Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Nation Building to the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) to facilitate capacity building interventions for two years. The proposal was submitted to UNDEF in New York in middle of June and was approved to commence in January 2009. Rede Feto received the approval letter from UNDEF New York to support activity in strengthening women capacity in the village councils through NGO members in four districts including Lautem, Viqueque, Ermera and Oecussi for two years. The budget allocation for two years was US$ 275,000.00.

In addition, Rede Feto was requested by other donors such as The Asia Foundation (TAF), HIVOS and AusAID to submit project proposals to them.

On-the job-coaching programme implemented for 5 NGOs

The on going programme for the on job coaching was conducted by the Capacity Building Officer on Programme, Finance and Administrative Management for three NGOs with Human Rights and GBV Programmes. The members would come to the Rede Feto office for two days in a week’s and hold hands-on training with the different officers of the Secretariat. Now, three members NGOs, have improved their operations and are continuously implementing their programmes with the assistance of Executive Body of Rede Feto.

5 programme staff provide technical assistance to member NGOs

The Executive Director, Capacity Building Officer, Administrative Officer and Finance Officer along with two Project Officers; the Human Rights Programme Officer and the Project Officer for the Women’s Committee Project provided technical assistance to the members of Rede Feto. They conducted trainings on strategic planning, management organization, proposal and report writing, donor’s relations, gender analysis, human rights and on-the-job coaching for members of Rede Feto. The Advisor of Rede Feto assisted the Executive Body in training the members of Rede Feto.

Financial monitoring of NGO members conducted by Finance Officer

The Finance Officer of Rede Feto had conducted her regular financial monitoring of the members who were implementing programmes/projects supported by Rede Feto. The Officer ensured that the expenditures of the budget should follow donor’s requirements.

Nine member NGOs have good programme, admin and financial management systems

Out of the 18 NGO members of Rede Feto, 9 members were trained on strategic planning. Six (6) members had undergone training on administrative and financial management. The three members had implemented programme on human rights and GBV for one year.

Three NGO members received financial support from Irish Aid and the Government of Finland

Three NGO members of Rede Feto received financial support from Irish Aid and the Government of Finland to implement human rights and GBV education in three districts such as Baucau, Liquica and Dili. The support covered for the projects to have their own offices, carried out a strategic planning workshop that included discussions on finance and administrative procedures that were installed by the Rede Feto Executive Body through on-the-job coaching and training. The Executive Body and Advisor also assisted the finalization of the strategic plan of Caucus: Feto Iha Politica for three years. They also request funding from Development and Peace (D&P) to support them.

COMMEMORATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2008

2008-01-06T19:40:00.000-08:00

The annual celebration of the International Women’s Day 2008 with the theme, “ Invest to Children and Women, Invest to Equality“ involved 5 members of Rede Feto that are based in the districts namely; FMF in Liquica, OMT/Finhada in Lautem, GFFTL in Baucau, Hari Aumetan in Dili, Sta. Bakhita in Manatutu, OPMT in Dili ( Metinaro and Hera). Rede Feto, in collaboration with SEPI and other stakeholders, celebrated the day in Dili with several activities as described below. On the other hand, the celebration in the districts went well because it were well participated in by the community leaders and people in the communities were the activities were held. The IWD celebration was aimed for Rede Feto to closely work in partnership with government agencies, in ensuring their programmes in promoting the advancement of women’s rights in the next five years and to ensure that government’s policies and budgets include provisions and/or allocations to women’s rights and gender equality.

1. The activities conducted to celebrate IWD’2008 included a workshop and a television programme over TVTL. The workshop conducted in Dili was conducted by two Rede Feto members, OPMT and Hari Aumetan. OPMT organized a three-day workshop in Metinaro, Hera and Dili on the 10-12 March 2008 that involved representatives from the Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce, Ministry of Economy and Development through the Secretary of State for Rural Development, representatives from UNFPA and Pradet. In Metinaro, 28 people attended the 10 March 2008 workshop which was divided into three parts. The first part was presented by the Head of OPMT, Ms. Lourdes Alves, on how to establish and develop women’s economic products in rural areas whilst the second part was about Mental Health (stress and trauma) which was presented by the Executive Director of Pradet. The third and last part of the workshop was about Gender-Based Violence which was facilitated by Ms. Mariquita Soares from OPMT.

The question raised in the workshop was about the community center that was established in 2007 to run small business, but it faced various problems such as limited financial support to buy materials. They asked the government officials present to help them solve the needs of the group to run their small business. Regarding the issues of gender based violence section; the participants agreed that one cause of domestic violence is misinterpretation of the culture. They suggested that we should nurture good values of culture and ignore the bad ones. The second workshop was held in Hera market on March 11, 2008 with 30 participants. The topics discussed were about Gender based Violence and mental health. This was facilitated by the Executive Director of Pradet, Mira Martins and Ms. Marquita Soares, members of OPMT and Representatives of State Secretariat for Rural Development. They talked about what is violence and types of violence, laws that protect women’s rights, organizations that provided services. Government Representative talked about program implementation and budget allocation to advance rural women. They are happy to involve women’s group in program training so that they can develop rural areas. The last section opened for discussion and answers. The third workshop was held in Dili at Xanana Reading Room with 28 participants. The activity was also attended by members of the government, UNFPA representative and Pradet. The topics discussed were Gender Based Violence, mental health, Rural Economic development. The subject for GBV was delivered by Abilio Belo and Maia from SEPI and Mental health was presented by Pradet Representatives and last subject was delivered by Representative of Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Commerce. Regarding to GBV issues, they identified the difference between sex and gender, which included difference of biological, roles, opportunity and access between women and men to any public information. They also identified what is gender based violence and to whom victim of gender based violence should complaint their cases and why domestic violence is considered a crime. The participants seem very enthusiasm to hear from facilitators and asked question whenever they get confuse. The second remark was presented by facilitator from Pradet which specific stress to what is stress and trauma and how to find solution. They also emphasis on why trauma occur and others external factors that affected to trauma. The last section was delivered by representative of ministry of trade and tourism, and her speech focused on the government program in the respective ministry and how they involved women in government programs.

Aumetan Hari’i

The workshop was held on 6 March 2008 at Becusi de Baixo and Romit with a total of 79 participants composed of village leaders, youths and women. The facilitator was a Brazilian sister, who shared about their programme in combating HIV/AIDs in Timor-Leste. The opening remarks or message was delivered by the village head, who welcomed the participants to the workshop and explained how it will enrich their knowledge on health promotion. The committee asked the Ministry of Health to provide information on the National Campaign on Prevention HIV/AIDS but unluckily they were busy that time hence the Brazilian sister was requested instead to provide information on HIV/AIDs. During the workshop, the participants were very interested in this issue because it was the first time for most of them to know about the programme of government, about HIV/AIDS, its effects and how to prevent HIV/AIDS. It was highlighted that in order to prevent the disease, adequate information have to be made available to all people to enable them to understand and work together towards the prevention of any kind of diseases and strengthen coordination between government and the civil society.

District Baucau

The workshop was held on 12 of March 2008 in Venilale sub district. The invited speakers were the ministry of education and state secretariat for rural development but they did not come because one got sick and the other had an emergency meeting in Dili. So, GFFTL invited Ms. Antoneita Rodrigues from a local organization in Baucau and head of sub district. Ms. Antonieta presented the topic of women’s participation in nation building and Gender based violence. There were 42 participants consisted of 10 men and 32 women. The participants came from illiteracy group project of GFFTL who have been their target group since 2002. The questions during the workshop were why only women’s day and not men’s day, why only have women’s convention and not regulate men’s rights, why Men only pay dowry/ barlaque and women do not pay, why husband and wives get divorce, it is considered as a rights to get divorce. Ms. Antonieta responded by saying that international women’s day was approved by UN because of several discrimination that was faced by women in all nation. For example; women were still considered as second class and have limited access to education, health, and others sectors. She also explained the background why UN approved women’s day. She emphasized that the discrimination toward women occurred everywhere including Timor Leste. It is a global issue that international and national institution should prevent it by coming out with policy legislation that promote and protect women’s rights. Regarding the women’s convention, she also emphasized that the constitution RDTL enshrine equality between men and women and previous government and national parliament signed and ratified seven treaties that promote women’s rights including men, women and children.

She also mentioned about the meaning of dowry/barlaque is to value women and established unity between two new families, but the implementation of Barlaque have been contradictory with the original concept. The changing between buffalos and pig and Traditional tais have several meanings. One is to value women’s dignity. In fact, it goes contrary with the original concept. The misinterpretation of the society on Barlaque has brought negative impact to women and it also caused domestic violence. Domestic Violence is considered as a crime and it should be processed in the court. The types of violence are four such as physical, psychological, sexual and economic. She said that the organization who provide assistance and the role and function of head of villages to assist women victim in their villages to seek for assistances.

The activity was ended by the Venilale sub-district head, saying that the information of women’s rights and gender based violence should always be disseminated to the community people for them to become aware of these issues on violence and work with organization that provide assistance to victims of violence including the police in each area. Community will also become aware that the domestic violence is a crime and not private case.

District Manatutu

The workshop was conducted in village Kairui in sub district of Laleia on March 6, 2008. The facilitator was a representative from the Ministry of Economy and Development and Rede Feto Executive Body. The workshop involved 96 participants composed of women 79 and men 17. The opening remark was conducted by the Kairui village head and the following section was delivered by Rep Ministry of Economy and Development. She explained the program of their department and how it related to advance women’s economically. The question raised by the participants was that the government did not pay attention to promote women’s local product such as Tais and weaving. They said that they want to produce more but their product was not valued with money. There is no market to buy local product and government have no policy to regulate local product activity. They asked government to promote local products rather than promote other international product. They asked government to provide them sewing machine to sew clothes for student uniform. They also asked training on management businesses. The Representative said that she will gather all the problems and needs and will present to her ministry to take into consideration of these issues.

The second section was delivered by Executive Director of Rede Feto on Gender Based violence. She explained the definition of gender based violence, its categories, laws that are applicable in promoting and protecting women and victims of GBV and seek for organization who provide assistance. The participants were very keen to know these issues because they thought that in their villages the GBV problems always occur and they only seek for mediation between victim and perpetuators. They also raised issues of divorce and its impact to women and children. According to participants, cases of abandonment always happen in the community and mostly women especially mother should take care of her children and without any assistance from their father. The situation made women vulnerable to any kind of violence and discrimination that occurs in society. Men are married with several women and do not responsibility to their first wives and growing up children. The executive director of Rede Feto answers their questions by explaining the applicable law that regulated the cases. The problems that occur is that the limited human resources in judicial system, regional court only in same districts and impeded the victim to seek for judicial system. She also emphasized that based on law no 5/2004 on local authority stated that one of the council of villages’ responsibility is to assist women victim in their community to seek for the organization that provide assistances. The last was closed by head of village and provide recommendation to Rede Feto to always strengthen and empower rural women so that women can participate in developing their nation.

Liquica District

The one day workshop was held on March 7, 2008 at Salaun Tokodede Liquica. The speakers were State Secretariat for professional training and business (SEFPE) and Abilio Belo from UNFPA. The total participants were 55, composed of 31 women and 24 men. They came from local Ngo, community leaders and youths from the sub-districts of Maubara and Bazartete.

The opening ceremony was delivered by State Secretariat and congratulated the women especially women in Liquica. He stated that the role of women now is to participate in nation building. Women should prepare and be ready to develop our new nation. He also stressed his program in his department to advance women’s rights. But he said he will elaborate in his coming section. The second speech was vice administrator of district Liquica and congratulated women in Liquica because of their contribution in process of development. She said that as women in council of village made important role because they should ensure the developing of their villages. She said that because of important role of women in nation building, she opened this workshop.

The second section was delivered by State Secretariat with topic to increase fund for education and training to develop women and children in rural area. He said that this government has commitment to advance women’s rights and established one department on gender equality.

He stressed that education is an important aspect to develop women’s to participate in nation building. Government has committed to provide free education and encourage women to enter high education such as university degree including master and PhD degree. He said that in the past, because of patriarchal system, family usually allowed men to get high education and ignore women’s as a human being who also have the same rights as men and what the consequences are. We see the gap between men who has high education is very high compare with women, men occupied decision making in all levels. He said that our time is different, we should change our patriarchal system that impede women’s life and limited women to get access to any information and training and other public services.

The second speaker is Mr. Abilio Belo from UNFPA on Gender Based Violence in Timor Leste. He started explaining the type of violence and categories into four such as physic, psychology, sexual and economic. And than the session open to question and answers. The participants interested in ask question on economic problems that was faced by families and it will create violence toward vulnerable people who live in one house. Others question about the misinterpretation of women’ rights that place women to be as men has. There are sexual violence cases that appeared in community but to bring to process in court are very slowly and make people do not bring their cases to court.

He answered the question by saying that domestic work should not only women who will do it but also men to contribute and finalize the work because if we only wait for women to do for us as men, we will burden her with a lot of works. And if she gets ill, who can replace her to do it. So we should share the domestic work to minimize women’s work at home.

The second question, he answered by referring to articles 17 in Constitution of Timor Leste that stated that equality between women and men. It means that equality of rights and not said that women should become as men. But women should have their rights as men have. One example, we can see 30 % quato for women in National Parliament. He also said that to reduce the violence toward women, we should work together from every aspect to combat it. In our society, we should raise awareness among people that violence against women is considered crime and society should assist the victim and bring to organization that provide assistance.

The last activity was growing plan near the river. It involved eleven representatives from ministry of agriculture, 25 students, 25 community leaders, participants of the workshops and community who live near the river.

Lautem District

Two day workshops were held in Lautem district which took place in center capital on 8 of March and one in Home village of Lautem sub district on 12 of March 2008. The total participants for the first workshop were 55 and the second workshop were 47 which came from local government representatives, members of PNTL, UNPOL, and heads of community, local NGOs, students, Gender Vocal point, and women representatives. The opening remark was conducted by head of district administrator which said that this day is important for Timorese women because our history has shown us that women’s contribution to our struggle for independence are very essential and it should follow by our young generation. Even our current situation is different but we should try to see the experiences and united of people of Timor Leste to fight for independence. He also stated that as a Timorese, we should work hard and unite to develop our new born country that faced a lot of obstacles in developing the country in the future.

After the opening remarks, the coordinator of FINHADA presented about the history of the International women’s day and focused her speech on the national topic. She also mentioned about GBV issues. She explained the definition of GBV and types of violence and identified organization that supports victim of gender based violence. The participants raised question about the important of public education on ending violence toward women, and it should do continuously in every sectors in all districts. They also suggested integrating gender based violence issues in school curriculum to valorize democracy and human dignity principles.

National Celebration

Rede Feto members were also involved in the national events that was organized by SEPI in collaboration with NGOs and other UN agencies including UNIFEM, UNFPA, etc. Rede Feto members brought their local products such as: tais, baskets and others souvenir items to the cultural night activities. The participants expressed their sincerest gratitude to the organizing committee because many people had appreciated and purchased from their products.

Television programme through TVTL

Rede Feto also invited its partners such as LUTA HAMUTUK and SEPI to participate in a TVTL Talk Show programme. They focused their messages on the year’s theme “Invest to children and women, Invest to equality”. Also tackled during the discussions were on gender mainstreaming policies and government’s allocation of budget that should take into account women and children. Luta Hamutuk stated that the total budget allocation to SEPI for the year 2008 is very small that support could not even reach the rural areas. H.E. Ms. Idelta Rodrigues, the State Secretary at SEPI stated that government adopts gender mainstreaming policies and thus allocated for this year, budget for the development of women and children in every sector in all line government ministries.

ADVOCACY PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES 2007- JUNE 2008

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One-day workshop on the preparation for the Third National Women’s Congress

Rede Feto conducted a one-day workshop with its members to discuss about the roles and functions of its members in preparing for the district conferences in the 13 districts and the 3-day Third National Women’s Congress (NWC) in Dili. As decided during the workshop, the members who will compose the organizing committee will include FKSH, OPMT, APSC-TL, Alola Foundation, Fokupers and ET-WAVE. The organizing committee will be responsible in helping and ensuring that activities for the NWC are well-designed, organized and understood by all the members of the Committee. The workshop was held at Audian Hotel which was facilitated by the Rede Feto Advisor with 22 Rede Feto members as participants.

Lobby with donors to support the congress

After preparing the NWC proposal, the Executive Body and Advisor of Rede Feto conducted meetings with donors who could possibly provide support to the Third National Women’s Congress. During two and half months, Rede Feto received confirmation for funding from the Royal Norway Embassy Section, GTZ, UNIFEM, UNFPA, Caritas Australia, Trocair, the Government of RDTL through SEPI, Irish Aid, Oxfam Australia, the Asia Foundation. The Executive Director of APSC-TL also helped the Executive Body of Rede Feto to look for funding by contacting a friend from Australia such as the Blue Mountain Sisters and ETWA to support the conference.

Regular meeting on the preparation and drafting internal regulation on district and national congress.

The NWC Organizing Committee conducted weekly meetings to discuss about all the necessary preparations for the district conferences including the regulation for the district conference, the activities for the 3-day district conference, its theme, the speakers and the Advisors who should provide support to Rede Feto in the preparation for the district conferences, analyze results, prepare for the final 3-day national congress and review of the final draft report of the NWC and other relevant issues. The meetings also discussed problems and difficulties encountered by the NWC Organizing Committee and other members of the team and discuss ways on how to resolve them.

Selection of Advisors to assist in analyzing and finalizing results of district conferences and the NWC

Having realized the need for support to analyze the results of the Platform Of Action (POA) from the Second National Women’s Congress and the new issues and recommendations, the NWC Organizing Committee identified several Advisors to compose the team. Rede Feto recommended for the Advisors to come from the SEPI, the National Parliament, a representative from the government line ministries and UNIFEM. These offices were represented by Ms. Monica Costa, Gender Advisor to SEPI, Ms. Endah Agustiana, Gender Advisor of UNDP at the National Parliament, Ms. Kanchan Lama, Gender Advisor at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAP) and Ms. Dianne D. Arboleda, Programme Manager of UNIFEM. The Advisors agreed and committed themselves to provide the necessary support to the Rede Feto NWC Organizing Committee and team.

TOT on Facilitation

Before the conduct of the district conferences, Rede Feto organized a five-day workshop held on 30 April 30 – 4 May 2008 to discuss about the guidelines in facilitating the conferences in the 13 districts. The workshop was attended by 30 participants representing members of Rede Feto such as APSC-TL, Alola Foundation, FKSH, FOKUPERS, FMF, GFFTL, Caucus: Feto Iha Politica, OMT, OPMT and Sta. Bakhita. The workshop enabled the members to understand the objectives of the district conference, processes and techniques in facilitating the conference with the support of at least 20 local facilitators who will be identified in collaboration with the Rede Feto members responsible for the district conferences. A module for facilitators was likewise developed to ensure that national and local facilitators were able to follow the guidelines vis-à-vis set objectives. The 5-day TOT was facilitated by Mr. Alex Gusmao from Timor Aid, a national NGO. The participants appreciated the inputs provided by the facilitator as he introduced more enriching and innovative methods and techniques on facilitation.

Two days workshop on the orientation of national facilitators for the district conferences

After the 5-day TOT, the NWC Organizing Committee of Rede Feto conducted a follow-up orientation and practicum with the national facilitators to prepare them for the conferences in the 13 districts. The follow-up orientation and practicum was held on 12-13 May 2008 at ETDA. The NWC Organizing Committee reviewed the conference module for facilitations and provided the necessary feedback to all facilitators and facilitating members of the Rede Feto team. After the workshop, the national facilitators from each member NGO of Rede Feto proceeded to their respective district of assignment and trained 20 local facilitators who will be part of the district team for the NWC district conferences.

Lobby with Ministries and State Secretariats to participate in the district conferences

The NWC Organizing Committee and Rede Feto Executive Body conducted a meeting with partners at the Ministries and State Secretariats that were pre-selected by the committee. Most of the Ministers and State Secretaries indicated their commitment to participate in the district conferences.

Conducted pre-NWC conferences in 13 districts

From 9 to 27 June, 2008, Rede Feto with its members conducted pre-NWC conferences in all 13 districts of Timor-Leste. For the first round, it were the Alola Foundation in the district of Manufahi on 9-11 June, OMT in Aileu on 9-11 June, OPMT in Oecussi on 9-11 June 2008 that organized and coordinated the district conferences. The second round was by Caucus: Feto Iha Politica in Ainaro on 11-13 June, FKSH in Ermera on 11-13 June and APSC-TL in Maliana on 10-12 June. The third part was by FMF in Liquica on 17-19 June, OPMT in Baucau and Viqueque on 18-20 June, PAS in Lospalos on 19-21 June, APSCTL in Suai on 23-25 June and PAS in Dili on 25-27 June 2008. The participants from each district were around 100-150 based on the number of sub-districts and villages of the 13 districts.

The objectives of districts conferences were: a) to assess the achievement of the 2^nd National Women’s Congress; b) to gather new women’s issues and concerns; c) to ensure that the stakeholders are committed in the implementation of the 3^rd POA; and d) to establish a monitoring group that will ensure the POA is implemented as planned.

The district conferences, first of its kind since the National Women’s Congress was initiated in 2000 (former conferences were held in regions), were successfully conducted in the 13 districts with the team of national and local facilitators. It was an important event that gathered women who revisited and shared their different experiences and issues/concerns affecting them. For most of the women delegates to the district conferences, it was a rewarding occasion for them to meet other women leaders again, discuss the issues and problems that affect them and agree on solutions to resolve them. They all agreed that holding the NWC every after 4 years

Organized TVTL coverage of NWC district conferences

The Information and Communication Officer of Rede Feto worked closely with a TVTL Officer in carrying out the video documentation of Rede Feto’s activities related to the NWC especially the district conferences and the 3^rd National Women’s Congress to be held on September 2008. The TVTL coverage is aimed to promote Rede Feto’s activities, its impact to women, and broadcast the realities of women’s situations in the districts through the discussions and sharing of the problems and needs that affect them especially those in remote areas to ensure government’s support through programmes and budget allocation.

Preparations for the Third National Women’s Congress

The NWC Organizing Committee conducted several meetings in preparation for NWC that will be held on 10-12 September (earlier scheduled for 23-25 July 2008 but postponed). The team also lobbied for President of RDTL, H.E. Jose Ramos-Horta and the Prime Minister, H.E. Ray Kala Xanana Gusmao to participate during the NWC.

Meeting with Prime Minister or RDTL

The Executive Body and members of the Board of Rede Feto and the Director of FKSH met with Prime Minister of RDTL to invite him to the opening ceremony of the Third NWC on July 2008. Rede Feto also thanked the Mr. Prime Minister for his attendance during the district conference in Bobonaro along with other members of government. The meeting was broadcasted on TVTL.

Comment on martial arts law

On April 2008, Rede Feto was invited to provide comments on the draft Martial Arts Law at the National Parliament. Before comments were provided, the Executive Body conducted a meeting with the Advocacy Working Group to discuss the gender perspective of the law. The Executive Director represented Rede Feto at the National Parliament in the discussion about the law. The National Parliament, through Commission H appreciated Rede Feto’s comments and agreed to review them. The law was discussed by the National Parliament and is currently waiting for approval.

Comments on the policy paper on the draft New Penal Code

The Advocacy Working Group of Rede Feto conducted a meeting to discuss its comments on the policy paper of the New Penal Code. It has requested the National Parliament to allow government to draft the new penal code for Timor-Leste considering the available human and financial resources that it has to review said important law. Rede Feto requested the government to consider the importance of consultation with the civil society on the Penal Code considering its value towards regulating and preserving human lives.

Reviewed some items of the draft Law on Domestic Violence

The Advocacy Team of Rede Feto conducted regular meetings to discuss the draft law of Domestic Violence. Rede Feto worked closely with other NGOs such as JSMP, PRADET, the media and other government agencies to discuss and review comments on the draft domestic violence law that considers it as a public crime and in describing some responsibilities of Government after its approval. The team also met with the Minister of Justice and State Secretary at SEPI to discuss the possibility of conducting a one-day national consultation to discuss the issues. The Minister agreed and the team will organize the workshop by first week of July 2008.

Comments on the decision to stop/capture operations in bars, restaurants and hotels in Dili by the Police

Rede Feto with the Gender Affairs Unit of UNMIT, questioned the objectives of the operations of PNTL on bars and restaurants in Dili capital which resulted for foreigners who have the required official visa to be held to their work in said bars and restaurants. Rede Feto and UNMIT viewed the decision and action as unfair and requested for PNTL to stop said operation.

Discussions on the involvement of a priest in an abandonment case

The Working Group on Advocacy also worked with other NGOs regarding the involvement of a priest in an abandonment case that caused the victim’s pregnancy and the priest did not take any responsibility over the girl and her baby. The church only decided to remove the priest from the parish where he was based and transferred to another parish. The family of the victim was asked to withdraw the case from the court and a mediation process was conducted to resolve the case. Rede Feto viewed the decision as very discriminatory towards the victim because there was no form of responsibility by the perpetrator and it was so easily settled. It was realized that this situation can always happen considering that women have limited access to information particularly on the judicial system in the country. Rede Feto, through its member Fokupers, is still in the process of looking for any others cases where women in Timor-Leste do not want to speak up and at the same follow-up and request the church to come out with a policy to give sanctions to priests who are involved in similar cases that discriminates and abuse women.

Press conference on sexual violence that involved a high school teacher in Dili

The Advocacy Working Group of Rede Feto conducted a press conference on a case of sexual violence involving a high school teacher in Dili. A follow-up of the case was done and relevant sectors were requested to respond immediately to the case. The case has brought one member of the National Parliament blaming the student victim because she would wear mini skirts in school that allegedly provoked the sexual assault. Rede Feto directly responded to the situation to inform and educate the community or parties involved not to immediately blame the victim but to investigate the case and establish how best it should be resolved.

Attended one-day workshop on Gender and Land Rights

SEPI and USAID worked closely to provide information on gender, land rights and the law to be integrated into the civil law that will be drafted by the Ministry of Justice. As a result, the one-day workshop was able to set up a working group to discuss about issues on land rights and ensure how they will be integrated into civil law. The workshop was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Justice, civil society and other international agencies.

Commemoration of International Women’s Day 2008

The annual celebration of the International Women’s Day involved 5 members of Rede Feto that are based in the districts namely; FMF in Liquica, OMT/Finhada in Lautem, GFFTL in Baucau, Hari Aumetan in Dili, Sta. Bakhita in Manatutu, OPMT in Dili ( Metinaro and Hera). Rede Feto, in collaboration with SEPI and other stakeholders, celebrated the day in Dili with several activities as described below. On the other hand, the celebration in the districts went well because it were well participated in by the community leaders and people in the communities were the activities were held. More…………………..

HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMME

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Shelter construction

During the crisis in 2006, Rede Feto took a lead role to coordinate humanitarian activities for IDP camps in Dili and in the districts. The members were involved in organizing and establishing shelters in the IDP camps. Rede Feto also worked with 2 engineers, 3 electricians and 50 workers in the construction works that was technically supervised by engineers of UNHCR. Rede Feto was specifically involved in the site survey that was a requirement before the setting up of tents, installation of electricity, construction of kitchen and latrine.

Non-Food Items Distribution

Rede Feto members also took a lead role in the distribution of non-food items (NFI) such as tents, stoves and plastic sheetings. This work was carried out together with UNHCR.

Camp management at the Dili football stadium and airport

Rede Feto members were also assigned at the Dili airport and football stadium to ensure that the needs of IDPs were responded by the team. They also coordinated with camp teams to identify the needs in coordination with the designated NFI and Construction Coordinator. They also monitored the construction process and needs, IDPs registration, categorization of tents according to blocks and numbers and the preparation of forms to support various activities in collaboration with UNICEF, IOM and UNHCR. Also conducted was socialization of the new IDPs at the IDP camps.

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) PREVENTION PROGRAMME IN IDP CAMPS

The activity on gender-based violence (GBV) was aimed at preventing and monitoring GBV cases in IDP camps. The activity commenced on 12 June to 31 October 2006. The project was implemented by Rede Feto members and stakeholders such as the OPE, Pradet Timor-Leste, Oxfam Australia and the Association of Men Association Against Violence (AMKV). The objectives of this project was to conduct an initial GBV assessment in the IDP camps, to conduct GBV awareness raising/training for key actors such as the police/legal personnel providing support to IDPs in the camps, to work with key counterparts to ensure that facilities in each IDP camp e.g. that sanitation and shelter facilities were gender sensitive, to build up the existing referral network in Timor-Leste to ensure that IDPs who were victims of GBV had proper access to counseling, legal and other services and to collaborate with key counterparts in the establishment of a database on the incidence of GBV cases in IDP camps.

Before the actual implementation of the project on GBV, the 12 facilitators conducted a needs assessment to know the problems and needs of the IDPs in the 56 camps in Dili, Hera, Metinaro and Ermera. From the rapid assessment, it was found out that GBV was not reported as an important case by IDPs but the condition of tents and the environment in IDP camps were conducive to GBV-related cases to happen considering that there are two to three families staying in one tent. There are no private spaces in some tents in IDPs, there is lack of latrines and supply of clean water, food distribution was reported to be unequally distributed, several wives and husbands were separated because of the problem “east and west” regional conflict. The IDPs were worried to send their children to school because there was a case of violence to one student when he left the camp to take up his examination. There was no security measures existing in the villages and hamlets that situations that are possibly expected to happen to happen would traumatize children.

The facilitators also distributed and discussed with IDPs advocacy materials such as stickers, comic booklets on CEDAW and Timor-Leste’s legislation on women’s rights in Tetum including copies of the UN Security Resolution 1325 that were provided by UNIFEM and OPE. The facilitators also discussed GBV prevention measures in IDP camps. The Rede Feto facilitators were divided into teams of two as they go for their activities in the camps with each team responsible of two IDP camps. In the advocacy activities of the facilitators, the number of participants was higher than the initial target of 12-15 persons per session. The sessions consisted of three modules specifically designed for: 1) women’s groups; 2) men’s and women’s groups; and 3) combination of groups 1 and 2.

The GBV working group also attended the coordination meeting held at the Ministry of Solidarity and Community Re-insertion (now the Ministry of Social Solidarity) with the aim of discussing needs and problems of the IDPs in relation to GBV. In addition, Rede Feto collaborated with two cultural groups from Theatre Buka Hatene and Hadomi Foundation that performed theatre and musical presentations to the 16 IDP camps in Dili and Metinaro. The objective of the community theatre presentations were to reflect and describe possible ways of responding to the needs of women and men in IDP camps, to reduce trauma and as much as possible, to provide a moment of tranquility, harmony and peace to the women and men in IDP camps. The presentations were at the same time aimed at sensitizing the IDPs on issues related to GBV and on how to deal with them in IDP camps.

MATERNITY WAITING CAMPS (MWC) FOR IDP PREGNANT WOMEN

The maternity waiting camps (MWC) for pregnant women in IDPs project was aimed at reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality among IDPs. The activity was implemented from 12 June to 30 September 2006. The project was implemented by Rede Feto through its member organizations and other stakeholders in partnership with the Ministry of Health and UNFPA. The objective of the MWC project in Dili was for pregnant women to improve access to comprehensive obstetric services and increase knowledge of IDP women regarding pregnancy, on taking care of newborn children, and the provision of Hygienic Kits to IDP pregnant women. Other components of this project included the establishment of shelters, distribution of non-food and food items, women hygienic kits, health promotion and monitoring and evaluation of project-related activities. In three months time, the project team managed to provide assistance to 207 pregnant women and their close family members from Hera and Metinaro IDP camps to the MWC. The mobile ANC/PNC clinic provided the project team’s names and location of women eligible for transfer to the MWC.

After two weeks of post-natal period, the women were transferred back to their camps of origin with their close family members. The project team collaborated with UN agencies and other international and national NGOs as well as the Ministry of Solidarity and Community Re-insertion in providing food and non-food items to pregnant women upon arrival at the MWC. UNFPA also provided 660 kits for pregnant women. The project team, in collaboration with UNFPA and Alola Foundation, conducted orientation sessions on the importance of the kits to pregnant women. The project team also collaborated with hospital nurses and Young Health organizations to provide education and counseling to pregnant women about the danger signs of pregnancy and delivery, importance of attendance of birth by skilled attendants, essential newborn care including early immunization and breastfeeding and benefit of birth spacing and balanced nutrition to bring about behavioral changes regarding safe motherhood. Rede Feto also conducted monitoring and evaluation to establish the effectiveness and efficiency of the services and the functioning of the Maternity Waiting Camp.

WOMEN’S COMMITTEE PROGRAMME

The crisis that occurred in 2006 resulted in thousands of people fleeing to their districts or finding refuge in convents, churches and other places, such as airports and in front of embassies, turning these places into IDP camps. People living in these conditions faced many problems, such as poor health and sanitary conditions. The condition of women and children were the most vulnerable ones, especially in regards to diseases and exposure to violence and abuse. Based on the ongoing crisis and the results of the first GBV activities and assessments conducted in 2006, Rede Feto decided to organize women committees. In this way, it was aimed to create a safe space for women to voice their problems and find solutions, to empower women to solve problems in cooperation with men and participate in decision making processes relating to conflict resolution, prevention and reintegration.

The project was implemented in eight IDP camps, namely Metinaro, Tibar, Obrigada Barak, Don Bosco, Jardin, Cional, HNGV, Seminario Maior. A facilitators’ team was formed which was composed of 12 members of Rede Feto: CAUCUS, FMF, St. Bakhita, Et-Wave, AMST and other organization such as JSMP, PRADET, AMKV, RMDH. The results of the project were having the women in IDP camps to express their needs and problems where the SLS and Camp Manager were involved, GBVI was raised as a priority problem during the regular meetings, and members of the Women’s Committees developed their skills in providing assistance to women in IDP camps.

During project implementation, there were also challenges and lessons learned which are very useful for similar for future projects. One of the main challenges was the fact that communities in IDP camps regarded Rede Feto as an organization that will change women’s mentality and with the growing fear that women may turn against their husbands and families’, especially during the elections period. The Women’s Committees were also considered a threat for camp hierarchy, with camp managers fearing that the Women’s Committee will take over their role in the camp. On the other hand, some members of the Women’s Committee thought that by involving themselves in the activities of the women’s committee activities would enable them to receive money and goods. It was earlier thought that correcting this perception of the women would hamper the women’s full participation in meetings and may influence their friends not to participate in meetings unless they are able to receive some incentives or in kind payments like goods. On the contrary, after the women were able to see tangible results on the progress made by the women’s committees through active participation of women in various meetings with government officials, workshops and conferences, they were more attracted and convinced to participate.

As support were continuously provided to the IDPs, the majority of them do not agree to return to their villages or houses due to fear over further possible threats and attacks that may occur any time and to lack of necessary shelter especially amongst those whose houses were destroyed. This is despite the fact that means of transportation to bring them back to their original villages and government’s plan to allocate IDP at temporary shelter will be provided as explained conducted by government officials at MTCR and UN agencies in several meetings with the IDPs. However, the IDPs in camps still do not agree to go back to their original villages. The disagreement appears to be a common consensus of the IDPs due to lack of government’s commitment to resolve their problems and unclear government decisions to reallocate IDPs accordingly. For example, one of the requirements of the IDPs is to maintain security in their villages but government was still not able to fulfill the request as coordinated by the IDPs the UN Police authorities. In fact, the government even offered two options to the IDPs to choose from, for example, reintegrating to their original villages or to place then in a temporary shelter that has been prepared by the government. In addition, government will not force those who want to continue to stay in the IDP camps. The decision of the government makes women’s committee, particularly women in IDP camps felt that they prefer to go back to their own villages because living in IDP camps for almost one and half month limited their movement, their access to information and many aspects that constrained their life. Moreover, their children’s education is affected. Fears and suspension continue to affect their lives especially during the election period, because some IDPs have confessed that they are forced to stay by some political elites in these IDP camps so that these elites can use them for “political bargaining”. The ongoing discussion between IDPs and new government should prioritize the issue of the returning all IDPs to their villages or reallocating to temporary shelters. In some IDP camps, the functions of camp management only relate to the distribution of food and non food items. The women committees should conduct regular meetings with the structure of the camp management to ensure that camp manager always conduct regular meeting to discuss about problems and needs of the IDP camps and find solution to resolve these problems. Another challenge that Women Committees in IDP camps are facing is that even though they obtained more information on gender based violence through trainings and workshops, but some of the women still became victim of gender based violence. Men still show their power to control their wives and treat their wives whatever they like. In one IDP camps, women victim of domestic violence complained that she had divorced from her husband because her husband brought his partner to live together with them in one IDP camp. This case has being reported to police and Fokupers. To reduce the tension of violence which always involved men as perpetrators, it should involve men in an intensive discussions and trainings so that they will gradually change their behaviors and mentalities. The other problems were some political party members used IDP camps to mobilize members and to threaten people who are from different political parties for their own political objectives. According to some women Committee in different IDP camps said that their IDPs were used by some political parties to vote for their political parties and reach “bargaining power” during the election campaign. They even said that, some political parties provided money and things to cook for the people who organize campaign. One coordinator of Women Committee as quoted by saying: “…during the campaign there were some strange people who entered and stayed in IDP camp and caused disturbances both in the IDP camp and outside the camp, especially within and after they caused troubles with people out side near the camp…...”. They escaped to their districts. Women’s Committee raised these problems with camp manager and SLS because they are often being accused as the trouble makers by the outsiders in the IDP camp. Besides this, the problems of the different political parties also affect Women Committee. Women feel they have different principles which will affect their relation with the others. The Women’s Committee also conducts civic education which involves facilitators from Rede Feto to raise their awareness on democratic system. It is very important to increase awareness of people of democracy and human rights so that they will understands and implement in their daily life and they will avoid from any agitation by any political parties.

WOMEN RIGHTS PROGRAMME

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The project on Human Rights is aimed to promote women’s rights amongst the women NGOs and rural women at the districts as part of their rights as human beings under the universal law. The project also covers the promotion on how the law can protect them. The total budget for this project is US$ 10,262.85 and implemented by three members of Rede Feto namely; APSC-TL, GFFTL and FMF in the districts of Aileu, Baucau and Liquica.

The project commenced on 16 November 2006 to February 2007 with the following objectives; a) to develop capacity of NGOs on women’s rights which is guaranteed in the laws of RDTL; and b) to disseminate information on women’s rights which is guaranteed in the laws of RDTL to rural women. Before implementing the activity, the Rede Feto Executive Body conducted three planning meetings with the proposed implementing NGO members of Rede Feto. The result of these meeting was a clear definition of the functions and responsibilities of the three NGOs and Rede Feto Executive Body. Specifically, the Rede Feto Executive Body will be responsible of the overall supervision of the project whilst APSC-TL takes the lead role in the implementation in partnership with FMF and GFTTL. Apart from this, it was decided to conduct 9 workshops in each of the three districts.

Training of Trainers (TOT)

Rede Feto executive body conducted a one-day Trainers of Training (TOT) on human rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the three NGO-members under the Women’s Rights Project facilitated by a resource person from the Office of Human Rights of government. The discussion was focused on human rights in relation to CEDAW and guidelines on how to facilitate the same training at the village level. The workshop was conducted at the office of Rede Feto with 10 participants; 6 from implementing NGOs and 4 staff members of Rede Feto from the Executive Body. One important issue that was raised during the workshop was on victims of rape cases who finds out that that they were pregnant and decided to undergo abortion – are they considered as a human rights violation or not? This issue was not responded by the resource person but offered to have a further discussion at the Human Rights of United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) and will inform Rede Feto about the answer.

Prepared a training module on human rights

The Capacity Building Officer of Rede Feto adapted a training module on human rights training based on the TOT module of the Office of Human Rights of government. The module covers the four human rights basic principles; human rights being universal, inherence, inviolate and indecisive, and the definition and history of human rights, the seven treaties signed and ratified by RDTL. The module has been printed and distributed to three members NGOs implementing the project n the villages or sucos.

Conducted 2 Workshops in the district of Aileu

On 9-10 January, APCS-TL conducted a two-day workshop in Kotolao village, at Laulara sub- district in the district of Aileu. The total participants were 36 female representing four hamlets or aldeias of Ramelau, Binana, Ornay and Kotolau. The training was formally opened by the sub-district administrator and the Executive Director of Rede Feto.

During the workshop, the participants were very active and 85% of them were able to understand about human rights and women’s rights. The women requested to involve men in the conduct of the same workshop so that both women and men are able to understand their rights to ensure that the problems of the women are resolved. They explained that oftentimes, there encounter problems when they want to participate in politics and decision making with their husbands; fathers and brothers will not allow them. They will just follow the decisions of their husbands and families because they were not aware of women’s rights. The second workshop was conducted on 11-12 January at Talito village, sub-district of Laulara in the same district. There was a total of 36 female participants representing the aldeias of Talitu and Casmaututo. The participants were very interested on human rights with focus on women’s rights. The discussions had enriched their knowledge in human rights and how it affected and helped them. They requested to continue similar activities in their hamlets because they need more information considering the very strong patriarchal system in the country and to reach out to more women. Moreover, they raised their problems related to lack of electric facilities in their hamlets and most of ther children suffer from respiratory via acuter (ISPA) due to the gasoline they use to provide them light in the evenings. Apart from this, they also recommended for Rede Feto to lobby at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAP) the need to provide them with seeds to grow in their lands.

Published a brochure on human rights and CEDAW

The APSC-TL designed a brochure on human rights and CEDAW. The 750 copies of the brochure were distributed to Rede Feto NGO-members, stakeholders and communities in the rural areas.

CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES 2006-2007

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Training of trainers conducted for the technical staff

A training of trainers on strategic planning, management, conduct of fundraising activities, and on writing project proposals and reports was conducted for the Executive Body of Rede Feto . It was agreed that the Executive Body will prepare a module for the training sessions that were facilitated by the Advisor of Progressio. The Executive Body and Advisor of Progressio were invited by other organizations and government line ministries and departments to conduct sessions on strategic planning for their staff members. The Executive Director was also invited by several organizations to conduct training on gender equality and women’s rights. These efforts in extending support to other organizations and partners were realized by Rede Feto as another way of sustaining the network. The initiative built and strengthened the capacity of the Secretariat and its members, provided support to various development partners and an opportunity to further increase collaboration with more organizations, and with the aim of sourcing funds for the sustainability of the network.

As a result of the initiatives in providing training support to partners, Rede Feto was able to form a team responsible for capacity building activities for groups and organizations. The capacity building support covers the conduct of an assessment of women organizations/groups in political parties to be able to assess their needs. On the basis of the needs and problems identified, the appropriate capacity building interventions were identified and enabled Rede Feto to train the women’s organizations/groups of political parties.

Established an information, communication and publication programme

In line with the information, communication and publications requirements of Rede Feto, an Information and Communication Officer was recruited to be responsible of the information and communication programme of the Secretariat and provide support to its members. The Information and Communication Officer started with the task of managing the Rede Feto website programme, the documentation of best practices and implementation of the database and media programme. The new staff commenced work at the Secretariat in July 2007. The information that are made available to Rede Feto and its NGO members were received or collected, collated and prepared in close collaboration with the Capacity Building Officer and Administration Officer of Rede Feto. The Capacity Building Officer has been working on the compilation of data about the different organizations and submits to the Info/Com Officer to be inputted in the database.

- Publication of best practices by Rede Feto members

Salurik is a channel for publishing best practices of Rede Feto. It is an opportunity to continuously provide updates on Rede Feto members specifically with information on how each NGO members were established, developed and have survived with the challenges that they are faced with.

CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES 2005 - 2006

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Review of Rede Feto’s Statute

In the first six months of the year, the executive body of Rede Feto coordinated a discussion on the review of the statute of Rede Feto Statute which was facilitated by Jose Luis, Director of HAK (Rights) Association. He conducted regular meetings with Rede Feto members and as a result, an amended statute was completed which was presented in a Rede Feto Annual meeting and was approved by members and the Board of Rede Feto.

Formulation and Approval of Internal Regulations

The executive body of Rede Feto also drafted a set of internal regulations that is aimed to provide guidance in a more organized and systematic implementation of the network’s day-to-day operations by the executive body. The process of writing the internal regulation was carried out through meetings of the staff of the network’s Secretariat after identifying problems that occur and agreeing on how such problems will be avoided or regulated as they occur. The team that worked on the internal regulations was composed of staff members in the Secretariat who were responsible for the administration and financial system of Rede Feto and was facilitated by the Rede Feto Advisor, Ms. Edna Tesoro.

Rede Feto General Assembly Towards Sustainability

A Rede Feto “General Assembly Towards Sustainability” was held which was aimed at installing sustainable mechanisms for the network such as: a) clear organizational statute that will guide the Board of Directors, the Secretariat and its members in the implementation of its programmes. The Rede Feto general assembly was conducted for 4 days which specifically focused on the presentation of the two-year report of the Board to the general assembly, approval of the amendments in the Rede Feto statute, election of the new members of the Board and the approval of the Rede Feto 4-year plan covering the period 2007-2010. The general assembly was attended by a total or 60 participants composed of Rede Feto members, stakeholders and NGO applicants for possible membership to the network.

The general assembly commenced with an opening ceremony with guest speakers including Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Gender Equality and Renz, Country Representative a.i. of UNFPA in Timor- Leste. The President of the Board, Olandina Cairo also delivered an opening speech. Other agreements that were passed during the general assembly included the following items;

Conduct of a management audit for smooth turnover and transition between the old to new members of the Board;
Improve the two-year report in two weeks time, from January 7-2, 2006;
For members who borrowed from the former Malaysian First Lady revolving fund to return within 12 months, starting from January- December 2006, with an interest of US$ 15 for every three months;
Review the roles and functions of the Board of Rede Feto;
Follow-up of the membership fee of US$ 0.70 per month from each member;
Approval of the Rede Feto statute and its amendments; and
Election of the members of the Board which resulted as follows: Maria Dias as President, Zelia Trindade as Secretary, with Maria Barreto, Olandina Cairo and Kirsty Sword Gusmao as members of the Board.

TEAM BUILDING WORKSHOP

A 2-day team building workshop with the Rede Feto Board and members of the executive body” was held with the aim of: a) developing a smooth working relationship and cooperation between and amongst the members of the Board and the executive body; b) review of the roles and functions of both the Board and the executive body; c) approve the draft organizational policies; and d) finalize Rede Feto’s one-year plan. The total participants to the workshop was 13 composed of three members of the Board, staff members of the executive body and one Rede Feto member, the Asia Pacific Support Collective Timor-Leste (APSC-TL) which together with the Rede Feto Advisor, served as facilitators for the two days workshop.

During the 2-day workshop, all the participants agreed that there should be a clear set of responsibilities, accountability and link between the Rede Feto Board and the Executive Director in decision making, representation of Rede Feto in public, regular meetings between the Board and the executive body and a network and management structure of Rede Feto to strengthen its operations. It was decided for the network’s structure to consist of three elements such as general assembly as the decision making body, the Rede Feto Board as the policy making body and the Secretariat as the executive body. Finally, the last part of the workshop was complete with a review of the internal regulations and financial policy for the Rede Feto Secretariat.

ADVOCACY PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES 2005 – 2006

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Dili / Rede Feto 2006

The primary women’s issues that were highlighted during the period was sexual violence that involved seven Indonesia militia men in the border, the demand of churches to criminalize abortion and prostitution after a three weeks demonstration was held in front of the government’s palace, the demand for the approval of the Domestic Violence Law and the need for women’s participation in decision making at all levels including in the 2007 presidential and legislative elections. The crises happened and had impacted on internally-displaced persons (IDP) camps with the on-going violence and disturbances. Rede Feto, as an umbrella structure of women’s organizations that advocates women’s issues, was inspired to speak out on the abovementioned issues through several activities such as policy discussion, lobby and networking with decision makers, media campaign and monthly discussions with development partners and relevant stakeholders.

Through the intensive advocacy efforts of Rede Feto, several results were achieved in line with the issues that affected or disadvantaged women. The achievements included the adoption of a provision in the electoral law for the legislative election to have a woman in every four list of candidates of political parties, the President of the Board of Rede Feto was selected to be part of the Petroleum Consultative Commission, and an investigation team to look at cases happening at the border was established. The investigation team for border cases included the involvement of one civil society which is represented by the HAK (Rights) Association.

Rede Feto demanded for the need to build peace and unity amongst Timorese and the participation of women as peace builders and peacekeepers in conflict situations. Women play a key role in conflict resolution and prevention efforts. Moreover, Rede Feto managed a Humanitarian Programme which focused on the construction of tents in IDP camps, camp managers at the airport vicinity of Dili and in the distribution of non- item food for IDPs in camps in Dili and other districts.

Commemoration of International and National Events

On an annual basis, Rede Feto, in collaboration with development partners, commemorates international events such as: the 16 days campaign to end violence against women (VAW), International Women’s Day celebration every 8^th of March, the World Rural Women’s Day every 15 October and the National Women’s Day every 3 November that was approved by the National Parliament in May 2005 with law number 17/I/3/2005. The approval of the law declaring 3 November as National Women’s Day was derived from one of the recommendations of the women’s platform of action from the Second National Women’s Congress that was held in July 2004. The first commemoration of the National Women’s Day was conducted in the Rosa Muki Garden in Mandarin. It was attended by approximately 200 people from government, the National Parliament, NGOs, UN agencies and ambassadors from Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. The theme of the event was on the spirit of heroine; “Let us participate in nation building in order to reduce poverty amongst women.” In this specific initial commemoration, Rede Feto conducted several activities to socialize and promote the day through a television talk show over TVTL, radio, newspapers, bulletin and press releases. On the other hand, the International Women’s Day 2006 was commemorated with Office for the Promotion of Equality or OPE (now the Secretrary of State for the Promotion of Equality or SEPI) under the Office of the Prime Minister, the government’s machinery for gender equality and women’s empowerment, through the implementation of various activities in Dili that highlighted women’s participation.

In addition to the commemoration of the 16 days campaign for ending violence against women, Rede Feto closely collaborated with OPE and NGO Forum in the implementation of various activities that commenced later part of November and ended on 10 December. There was an active participation from Rede Feto members who focused directly work on gender-based violence (GBV) including Fokupers, Alola Foundation, GFFTL and Etwave. The theme for the 16 days campaign in 2005 was on women’s health and health in the world.

In 1996, the World Health Assembly declared that violence against women is a health-related problem that government and health organizations should take immediate action on to resolve it. Violence against women affects women, children and men’s health as well. It was therefore realized as important, for medical professionals to consider and know the impact of violence towards women and children. In Timor-Leste, GBV is considered a big challenge because based on police reports, cases of GBV especially domestic violence increases every year. In 2005, the National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) received 490 GBV cases in all territories. Despite this number, there were unreported cases that happened all over the country. To resolve this problem, the government established a Referral Pathway network for GBV in 2005. One of the services that were provided for victims of GBV were in the National Hospital in Dili called Save Room. The Save room is specifically intented to assist victims of GBV in the hospital.

Bulletin Salurik

Rede Feto published its first quarterly bulletin in September 2005. Rede Feto named its bulletin Salurik which means umbrella in local language, with the aim of providing information on women’s rights and gender equality. It is distributed to members of the National Parliament, Rede Feto members and its target groups in districts. After one year of its publication, Rede Feto requested its readers to provide comments on the impact of the information in the bulletin to the community. One member of the National Parliament said that the Salurik had provided information on Rede Feto’s activities and how far the network has impacted women and children. One stakeholder said that the readers of Salurik are not only women but also men and it has raised the awareness of the community to promote and protect women’s rights and gender equality. The former advisors for gender equality said that Rede Feto should continue writing and strengthen the information the Salurik provides to its readers.

Monthly Discussions

Rede Feto has conducted monthly discussions about women issues for one year. This activity was supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for one year. The participants who were involved in the discussions were members of the National Parliament, students, NGOs and Rede Feto members. The objectives of the discussions were to share information and analyze the actual situations which affect women and children and how they can be appropriately dealt with and by whom. Moreover, the discussion has become an opportunity to advocate issues to lobby with government and the National Parliament.