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Timor Leste
| Location |
Timor Sea, N of W Australia |
| Latitude and longitude |
9 30 S, 125.50 E |
| Sovereignty |
Independent |
| United Nations member? |
Yes |
| Political status notes |
Shares island of Timor with Indonesia;
formerly known as East Timor |
| Population |
1,066,582 |
| Census notes |
2010 |
| Land area in square kilometers |
14,874 |
| Capital |
Dili |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Constitution
of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, from the East Timor Action Network
(PDF) |
| Constituição da República Democrática de
Timor-Leste (Portuguese), from the Government of Timor L'este |
| International Court of Justice, Case
Concerning East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), 1991-1995 |
| Peace
Agreements: East Timor, from the United States Institute of
Peace |
Other legal documents online
|
| Jornal da República
(Portuguese), official government gazette containing laws, decrees, and
other legal documents |
| East
Timor Law Journal |
| East
Timor Legal Information Services |
|
East
Timor Regulations promulgated by the United Nations Transitional
Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) (to 2002) |
| Timor-Leste Legal Reference Material,
from the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Commission
for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor |
| Country
profile: East Timor, from the BBC News |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| East
Timor, from the World Bank Group |
| East
Timor Government - despite its name, this useful website carries
the disclaimer that under no circumstances does it purport to represent
the Government of East Timor |
| Gabinete do Primeiro-Ministro
e o Governo Timor Leste (Portuguese) |
| Government of
East Timor—Governo Timor Leste
|
| The
Judicial System Monitoring Programme |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of
Timor-Leste |
| Timor-Leste, Background Notes, from the U.S. Department of State |
| States
of Emergency Database: East Timor, from the Human Rights Center at
the Queens University School of Law, Belfast, Northern Ireland (archived
resource; not
updated since Timorese independence) |
| Timor
Lorosa'e (East Timor), from Radio Australia’s Time to Talk |
| United Kingdom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Country
Profile: East Timor |
| United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island
Directory |
Selected articles on law and political status
|
| East
Timor Land Issues and Independence, by Catherine Elderton,
working draft presented to the FAO/USP/RICS Foundation South Pacific
Land Tenure Conflict Symposium at the University of the South
Pacific, Suva, Fiji, April 10 -12, 2002 (PDF 170K) |
| Gearing up for self-rule in East Timor,
by Satish Chand, from the Pacific Economic Bulletin (2002) (PDF 83K) |
| New
Neighbour, New Challenge: Australia and the Security of East Timor,
from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (2002) |
| Re-establishing land titles and administration in East Timor,
by Daniel Fitzpatrick, from the Pacific Economic Bulletin (2000) (PDF
101K) |
| International Legal Assistance Consortium, Report
on East Timor (2002) (PDF 758K) |
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