The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors...

This article explores Timor Leste's experience of reporting under the reformed international human rights treaties reporting system during the period 2004 2007. Whilst consciousness has grown of the difficulties faced by states by the duplication of treaty reporting processes and the resource...

At the invitation of the Government, the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, undertook a mission to Timor-Leste from 13 to 18 November 2011. The Special Rapporteur collected first-hand information on the human rights situation of people living in...