This brief presents the work of Ba Futuru, a WYDE | Women's Leadership grantee in Timor Leste, supported under the WYDE | Women’s Leadership programme, funded by the European Union and led by UN Women. This project aims to...

In 2002, Timor-Leste (East Timor) became an independent nation after more than four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and two decades of Indonesian annexation. Independence came after a 1999 UN-supervised referendum, which...

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (RDTL) gained independence on 20 May 2002 after 24 years of Indonesian occupation from 1976 to 1999. After independence, Timor-Leste faced the 2006 Crisis arising from violence between rival...