Reports and Announcements

• La'o Hamutuk Annual and Mid-Year Reports

• Special Reports and Letters

• La'o Hamutuk in the News

• Articles by La'o Hamutuk published elsewhere

La'o Hamutuk Annual and Mid-year Reports

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2024

• LH Annual Report, 2023

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2023

• LH Annual Report, 2022

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2022

• LH Annual Report, 2021

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2021

• LH Annual Report, 2020

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2020

• LH Annual Report, 2019

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2019

• LH Annual Report, 2018

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2018

• LH Annual Report, 2017

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2017

• LH Annual Report, 2016

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2016

• LH Annual Report, 2015

• LH Annual Report, 2014

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2014

• LH Annual Report, 2013

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2013

• LH Annual Report, 2012 (PDF)

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2012

• LH Annual Report, 2011 (also appendices or PDF)

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2011

• LH Annual Report, 2010 and supplement on Gender in LH practice

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2010

• LH Annual Report, 2009

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2009

• LH Annual Report, 2008

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2008

• LH Annual Report, 2007

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2007

• LH Annual Report, 2006

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2006

• LH Annual Report, 2005

• LH Annual Report, 2004

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2004

• LH Annual Report, 2003

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2003

• LH Annual Report, 2002

• LH Mid-Year Report, January-June 2002

• LH Annual Report, 2000-2001

Special Reports and Letters

Many reports not listed here, including articles in the La'o Hamutuk Bulletin, are included in the Topic Index.

• March 2016: La’o Hamutuk and Timor-Leste’s development challenges: a case study in human rights and collaborative journalism by David Robie

• May 2010: La'o Hamutuk celebrates our Tenth Anniversary

• February 2010: Presentation by La'o Hamutuk The Current Situation in Timor-Leste (2.8MB PDF)

• August 2006: Who will command the military forces during the UNMIT mission?

• November 2005: Report on intercambio with Philippines on agrarian reform

• March 2005: LH Submission to UK Government EITI meeting in London

• March 2005: LH Submission to RDTL Ministry of Planning and Finance on the draft Petroleum Fund Act (Portuguese), also submissions from other NGOs

• February 2005: LH presentation to World Bank EITI Meeting in Paris. Extractive Industry Transparency in Timor-Leste: Limitations in Practice

• December 2004: LH Submission to the Ministry of Planning and Finance on the Petroleum Fund Discussion paper

• September 2004: Report from East Timorese Exchange with Nigeria

• September 2004: LH Submission to the TSO and TSDA regarding the Proposed Petroleum Regime

• September 2004: The Case for Saving Sunrise

• March 2004: Lessons Learned: The Community Empowerment and Local Governance Project

• March 2004: Can Timor Leste Avoid the Resource Curse? (Paper presented to the workshop on Transparency and Accountability in Government, organized by the Democracy Council Dili, 22-25 March 2004)

• December 2003: Statement to the Development Partners Meeting: English / Portuguese

• 25 July 2003: An Open Letter to UNMISET

• Joint Statement to the Development Partners Meeting June 2003 from NGOs in support of Ukun Rasik A'an

• Article-by-article commentary on East Timor's Immigration and Asylum Bill (From the NGO Working Group to Study the Immigration and Asylum Bill)

• Disorder in East Timor: The International Community Must Accept Responsibility (6 December, 2002); Portuguese, Bahssa Indonesia

• Report from one-day seminar on East Timor Joining the International Financial Institutions PDF (8 November, 2002)

• Submissions to the Australian Parliaments Joint Standing Committee on Treaties: La'o Hamutuk; East Timor Independent Information Centre for the Timor Sea (CIITT) on behalf of La'o Hamutuk and others (July 2002)

• ETese NGOs write Parliament on Timor Sea Oil (12 June 2002)

• Can the Rule of Law Prevail? Pressure from UNHQ Exacerbates Amos W Tax Controversy. Bahasa version (12 March 2002)

• East Timor NGO letter to Japan on Peacekeepers (8 December 2001)

• Justice and Accountability in East Timor: Int'l Tribunals and Other Options: Report of a one-day seminar in Dili, East Timor, (16 October 2001)

• Letter to UNTAET Deputy SRSG McNamara on justice issues (10/17/01)

• ET NGOs on Japanese Peacekeepers (09/03/01)

• East Timorese Network of Popular Educators created (08/01)

• Brazil exchange teaches popular education. (6-7/01)

• NGO Forum declines to join UNTAET Constitutional Process (4/01)

• Objectionable PKF T-shirt (4/01)

• E. Timor NGOs protest UN police predictions of election violence with CivPol response (3/12/01)

• LH on UNTAET Gag Rule (01/01)

La'o Hamutuk in the News

La'o Hamutuk is frequently in the local media in Timor-Leste, in addition to our own radio program. We are often cited in news articles, and write many opinion articles for Timor-Leste newspapers and magazines.

Due to very frequent media mentions of La'o Hamutuk, this section of the site is not being updated and is far from complete. Many recent articles are listed in La'o Hamutuk's Annual Reports.

• Nov 2009: Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2010 hatutan nafatin dalan ba ‘Malisan Rekursu’ Artigu husi La’o Hamutuk iha Timor Post

• January and April 2009: Two articles on the state budget and resource curse (Tetum)

• February 2009: Karta ba Timor Post kona ba knaar sociedade sivil nian

• Many other articles from 2008 are listed in La'o Hamutuk's Annual Report

• December 2008:  East Timor uneasiness on troops The Age (Australia) about LH submission on ISF

• Many other articles from 2007 are listed in La'o Hamutuk's Annual Report

• December 2007: Timor Leste: ex-pats with deep roots interview with Charlie Scheiner on ABC Radio (Australia) Late Night Live program.

• July 2007: Horta Promises not to Promulgate Clemency Law, Timor Post

• July 2006: Minding the Timor Gap in "Dollars and Sense"

• July 2005: Timor-Leste tests revenue transparency in "Ethical Corporation"

• May 2005: Timor Sea Oil - a question of sovereignty. Interview with La'o Hamutuk's Thomas Freitas in Green Left Weekly

• November 2004: Timor Sun: Hope in East Timor (Nigeria exchange and Resource Curse)

• August 2003: LUSA: Dili NGO criticizes 'poor results' of Brazilian aid programs

• August 2002: Lao Hamutuk: Walking Together with the East Timorese ICWA newsletter by Curt Garbrielson (PDF)

• 25 May 2002: Workers Online: East Timor appeals for help on Timor Gap 

• 21 September 2001: Assembly prepares to draft constitution (Radio Australia)

• 2-15 October 2000: Tais Timor on Asbestos campaign

• 22 September 2000: The Boston Globe on LH staffer Mark Salzer

• 26 July 2000: Green Left Weekly on Transition Questions

• 10 July 2000: Guardian on Timor-based Consumerism

• 7 July 2000: The Timor Post on Falintil's $100,000

Articles by La'o Hamutuk staff published by others

• Articles published during 2012 and subsequent years are in Appendix 2 of each year's annual report.

• Articles published during 2011 are listed here

• Articles published during 2009 are listed here

• Articles published during 2008 are listed here

• Penentuan nasib sendiri bukan sekedar merdeka secara politis: Perkembangan terbaru di Timor-Leste (Bahasa Indonesia), published by Progressio (10/06)

• Self-determination requires more than political independence: Recent developments in Timor-Leste (conference on International Law and the Question of Western Sahara, Netherlands, 10/06)

• Petroleum in Timor-Leste (to International Forum on Petroleum, Human Rights and Environmental Reparation, Ecuador, 10/06)

• Timor-Leste and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: An Overview from Civil Society (by La'o Hamutuk and Luta Hamutuk Presentation to EITI meeting, Norway, 10/06)

• The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste (given at seminar at the University of Brasilia, 7/06)

• Drilling East Timor: Australia's Oil Grab in the Timor Sea (Multinational Monitor, 1/06)

• Oil in Timor-Leste: A discussion of economic, ecological and moral debt. (Chapter written for OilWatch, 9/05)

• East Timor Gives U.S. Soldiers Impunity, Quietly (Suara Timor Lorosa'e 11/03)

• The East Timorese Association of Men Against Violence (Timor Post, 7/02)

• Thomas Freitas: The peaceful action at the U.S. Embassy was proper (Suara Timor Lorosae, 6/02)

Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP) was a Dili-based independent project working under the auspices of the Timor-Leste Jurists Association and La'o Hamutuk. It now has its own website.