NEW PUBLICATION ON HUMAN AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN TIMOR-LESTE

FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN TIMOR-LESTE: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Barbara Nazareth Oliveira

Carla de Marcelino Gomes

Rita Páscoa dos Santos

This new publication  – written in Portuguese, one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste - deals with a number of legal issues related to the protection and judicial enforcement of fundamental rights as guaranteed by the Timorese Constitution. It is aimed at those with a legal background – court actors, lawyers, legal professionais and law students – to support their access  to academic level reference on the human rights legal perspective as per relevant Timor-Leste legal framework.

The 500-page legal reference material has been written as a result of a partnership of the Provedoria for Human Rights and Justice of Timor-Leste and the Human Rights Centre of the Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

This is the first legal reference academic level material specially dedicated to strenghten the legal enforcement of the recognized human and fundamental rights in Timor-Leste.

The Provedoria and the Human Rights Centre have decided to provide free access to the entire book. The book can soon be downloaded from www.pdhj.tl and www.fd.uc.pt/igc. It will also be available in Google Books, Amazon  and other publications platform. The book can be accessed already at Scribd (https://www.scribd.com/doc/269547388/Os-Direitos-Fundamentais-em-Timor-Leste-Teoria-e-Pratica)