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• Ruinous project in East Timor could open door to China – Sydney Morning Herald. December 18, 2018
• Hard times ahead for a politically divided Timor-Leste – East Asia Forum. December 13, 2018
• Timor-Leste buys Shell's stake in Greater Sunrise in controversial plan to build hub – ABC News. November 22, 2018
• Committee 12 November recovers remains of 16 slain at St. Cruz Massacre – Dili Weekly. November 19, 2018
• Santa Cruz Massacre: Timor-Leste's democratic transition 27 years later – Democracy Speaks. November 8, 2018
• Secret Witness K brief to be debated in closed court, magistrate rules – The Guardian. November 9, 2018
• Trial of former Australian spy could hear evidence in secret – Associated Press. November 7, 2018
• Witness K lawyers in fight to head off closed court hearing – The Guardian. November 7, 2018
• Will Timor-Leste become China's next debt trap? – Asia Times. November 2, 2018
• Witness K case: watchdog investigates Australia's spying on Timor-Leste – The Guardian. October 31, 2018

News reports and articles on East Timor are archived in the East Timor News Digests.

• Australia: Don't prosecute for exposure of misconduct – Human Rights Watch News Release. July 23, 2018
• Political instability reflects political cronyism – Fundasaun Mahein Statement. March 1, 2018
• Timorese patience and determination pays off – new treaty to establish permanent maritime boundaries for the first time – Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release. February 27, 2018
• 42nd anniversary of Indonesian full scale invasion of East Timor – Australia East Timor Friendship Association South Australia Inc Media Statement. December 7, 2017
• 42 years after Timor-Leste declared independence, ETAN honors and encourages peaceful democracy – East Timor and Indonesia Action Network Statement. November 23, 2017
• Bringing them home: Fifteen stolen children reunited with their families in Timor-Leste 20Asia Justice and Rights (Ajar) Press Release – November. -27, 2017
• Significant progress in Timor Sea negotiations – Timor Sea Justice Campaign Media Release. September 2, 2017
• U.S. Congress supports Timor-Leste's right to a fair maritime boundary with Australia – East Timor and Indonesia Action Network Statement. August 1, 2017

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• Amnesty International Report Timor-Leste 2017/2018 – Amnesty International. February 2018
• U.S. Department of State 2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: East Timor Chapter – Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. March 3, 2017
• Survey on Access to Land, Tenure Security, and Land Conflicts in Timor-Leste – Asia Foundation. January 15, 2017
• Amnesty International Annual Report Timor-Leste 2015/2016 – Amnesty International. February 23, 2016
• Annual Report 2013: Timor-Leste - Amnesty International. May 23, 2013
• Timor-Leste: Stability at what cost? - International Crisis Group. May 8, 2013 (PDF format)
• Annual Report Timor-Leste - Amnesty International. May 24, 2012
• 2012 Human Rights Report: Timor-Leste - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. April 19, 2013
• 2011 Human Rights Reports: Timor-Leste - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - May 24, 2012
• Observations during the second round of the presidential elections - La'o Hamutuk. May 9, 2012
• 2010 Human Rights Reports: Timor-Leste - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. April 8, 2011
• Timor-Leste’s Veterans: An Unfinished Struggle? - International Crisis Group - November 18, 2011
• Overview
• Full report (PDF format)
• Why should Timor-Leste go into debt? - La'o Hamutuk. December 4, 2009 (updated 8 September 2011)
• Leaked diplomatic cables from US Embassy in Dili between 2005-2010
• Wikileaks - Cables leaked from US Embassy in Dili between 2006-2010 posted by La'o Hamutuk
• Human rights in Timor-Leste - Amnesty International Report. May 2011
• 2010 Human Rights Reports: Timor-Leste - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. April 8, 2011
• Timor-Leste: Reconciliation and Return from Indonesia - International Crisis Group. April 18, 2011
• Overview
• Full report (PDF format)
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• Background Reports & Articles - Archive reports & articles on East Timor
• East Timor News Digest – Archive of news reports and articleson East Timor (2002-2012)
• Green Left Weekly - Archive of articles on East Timor (1997-2002). Articles after 2002 are archived here.
• Our Work Our Lives Conference – Archive of speeches and papers delivered at the fourth Our Work Our Lives conference on women and industrial relations in Dili, September 2011
• Statements & Press Releases on East Timor (1999-2010)
• Hands off the Timor Sea!
• Timor Sea Justice Campaign, 
• A fair go for East Timor demonstrations in Melbourne and Sydney
• Banned ads supporting the campaign
• ETAN's Timor Sea site
• East Timor government's Timor Sea Office.
• Reports and articles on the Timor Sea are archived in the East Timor News Digests.
• Timor Archives - Clearing house for Timorese archival records
• Timor's famine: Words that pointed to catastrophe - Released cables sent from Jakarta warning the Australian government months about the looming human catastrophe caused by the Indonesian military's campaign in East Timor.
• Remembering the Santa Cruz massacre - Clearing House for archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART Project) Blog

• Amnesty International East Timor
• Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET)
• Balibo film history site - Clinton Fernandes
• Balibo official film site
• Back Door – E-news on East Timor
• East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) website
• East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) Blog – Supplements ETAN's website
• East Timor and Indonesia Action Network Timor Sea site
• East Timor Directory
• East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin (ETLJB)
• East Timor Law Journal
• East Timor Legal Information Site
• East Timor News
• East Timor NGO Forum
• East Timor: Who Cares? (Progressio)
• East Timor women's self-help group
• Estafeta- ETAN's newsletter
• Fundasaun Mahein – Research and advocacy of the security sector
• Friends of Balibo
• Government of East Timor - Timor Sea Office
• Guide Post Magazine - East Timor's news, business and travel info publication in English
• Human Rights Watch East Timor
• Indonesia’s secret ally at Balibo - Australia’s complicity in the invasion of East Timor
• International Crisis Group (IGC) Timor-Leste
• Initiatives for International Dialogue - Timor updates
• International Federation for East Timor
• IRIN East Timor
• Judicial System Monitoring Program
• La'o Hamutuk - Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring & Analysis
• Macauhub.com East Timor - East Timor news
• Oxfam East Timor campiagn
• Save East Timor
• Socialist Party of Timor - English and Portuguese
• Suara Timor Lorosae (Voice of East Timor) - Portuguese/Bahasa/English
• Tempo Semanal
• Timor Archives - Clearing house for Timorese archival records
• Timor-Leste Daily Media News
• TimorNet - Portugal
• Timor News Line - Online searchable news website
• Timorese Resistance Archive & Museum
• Timor Sea Justice Campaign
• The Dili Weekly – Independent news in an independent nation
• UNMISET - United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor
• UN virtual library for Timor-Leste
• Working Women's Centre Timor-Leste – Education, support and advocacy for vulnerable women workers in Timor-Leste

Fighting together - Indonesians and East Timorese join in struggle

First published in March 1996, this dossier details the December 7, 1995 embassy occupations in Jakarta by Indonesian and East Timorese activists. It includes previously unreleased press reports, statements and chronologies and interviews with participants produced at the time the actions were being carried out.

First published in July 1995, this dossier contains letters and a speech by East Timorese as well as position papers by Indonesians campaigning for self-determination in East Timor.

First published in June 1996, this pamphlet carries the full text of an interview by John Pilger with Xanana Gusmao from his prison cell in Jakarta. The introduction includes previously un-released material from personal correspondence with Xanana.

Indonesia: One Struggle One Change

Indonesia: One Struggle One Change examins how teh current economic crisis has created the greatest opportunity for change Indonesians have seen in years. One Change is a comprehensive 30-minute documentary shot in Indonesia and East Timor in 1997.  The documentary captures the current political climate through the voices of those long silenced.  Pro-democracy advocates, East Timorese, labour organisers, students, and workers speak out about life under the boot of the Indonesian regime.