Amnesty International is urging Timor-Leste to close a legal loophole that is allowing war crimes committed during the 1975-1999 Indonesian occupation to go unpunished. Crimes against humanity and ...

Every year on August 30, Timor-Leste celebrates Popular Consultation Day 1999. It commemorates an event of historical importance: when the people of Timor-Leste were finally given the chance to vote ...

Timorese men in traditional dress carry East Timor national flag during a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the referendum that led to the country’s independence from Indonesia in the ...

Perpetrators of killings and other human rights abuses during the Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste must not be allowed to go unpunished, Amnesty International said as the UN Security Council was ...