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TIMOR-LESTE: Working to Tackle Unemployment
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011DILI – Tackling unemployment has been one of the main stumbling blocks in the statebuilding process in Timor-Leste, a half-island nation of about 1.1 million people.
Nowhere is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of achieving decent employment for men, women and young people more crucial than for a young, post-conflict nation like Timor-Leste, [...]
TIMOR LESTE: Future Lies in the Young Nation’s Hands
Friday, July 8th, 2011DILI – Timor-Leste is a young nation in every sense. Nine years after achieving formal independence in 2002, ending 24 years of savage occupation by the Indonesian army, half of its population of 1.1 million is under the age of 18. Many of its children lost friends and relatives during the Indonesian era and its [...]
Snipping Away at Youth Unemployment
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010DILI, Nov 11, 2010 (IPS) – In a small city where most of the 22,000 inhabitants rely on subsistence farming to put food on the table, one young woman has gone against the grain with a business venture that embodies the changing times in Timor-Leste, South-east Asia’s newest and poorest nation.
‘I’ve felt a big change [...]
Millennium development goals: Fragile states claim summit outcome off-target
Friday, September 24th, 2010Also run by The Guardian.
DILI, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) – Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely ignored in the outcome document of the millennium development goals (MDGs) summit in New York, but critical donors are at least listening to the growing rumble of voices from developing [...]
East Timor-Australia Urged to Dialogue Over Gas Fields
Saturday, May 8th, 2010DILI, May 6, 2010 (IPS) – The prickly issue of where to pipe and process gas from the Timor Sea between Australia and East Timor must be resolved through open dialogue, say members of civil society in East Timor.
“Don’t keep it deadlocked – it will not help. Whatever the options, we need to talk, as [...]
Fragile Nations Speak Up To Donors
Sunday, April 11th, 2010DILI, April 10, 2010 (IPS) — An international dialogue meeting in East Timor Saturday saw fragile states make giant steps in showing developed nations how aid can be more effectively channelled to achieve their key development goals.
The Apr. 9-10 Dili International Dialogue on Statebuilding and Peacebuilding broke new ground as a group of fragile states, [...]
Listen to Us, Fragile States Tell Donors
Friday, April 9th, 2010DILI, April 9, 2010 (IPS) — “Work with us, not against us” was the message for international donors that came out of the g7+ meeting of fragile states, which met in Dili this week to discuss how they can make better use of the foreign aid they get.
Fragile states must take the reins when it [...]
East Timor, Fragile States Compare Notes on Aid
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, April 2, 2010 (IPS) — When the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations hold meetings, the first thing many people think of is protests. But when the g7—with a lowercase G—get together for their first meeting in East Timor next week, it could revolutionize how donor countries give assistance to fragile states.
It will be [...]
Cross-Country Ties an Obstacle to Justice
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, Dec 2, 2009 (IPS) – East Timor’s leaders say bringing to justice perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Indonesian army’s occupation would sour relations between the neighbouring countries, but not everyone is so keen to forgive and move on.
Despite high-level stubbornness, justice can still be achieved so long as people continue to make their [...]
Seasonal Changes Cause for Alarm
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, Oct 20, 2009 (IPS) – If you order a beer, sit back and relax at one of the expat bars dotted along the coastal Pantai Kelapa road in this capital, you cannot help but notice the view: the stony beach, the swimming children and the grounded fishing boats. But that view is morphing — [...]