- Project name: Access to justice for Timorese women
- Implementing institutions: Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP)
- Agreement partner: Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP)
- Project period: 2010 -2012
- Total budget: NOK 3.6 million
JSMP was established in April 2001 to monitor the processes of the Ad Hoc Human Rights Tribunal in Indonesia and the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Timor Leste. JSMP very quickly extended court monitoring and judicial system analysis to include the operations of Timor Leste’s District Courts. JSMP also undertakes legislative analysis. JSMP undertakes extensive outreach work in Dili and throughout Timor Leste. Initially the aim was to inform East Timorese people of the decisions of the Ad Hoc Tribunal and Special Panels for Serious Crimes. JSMP’s outreach work has expanded to include human rights training, training of judicial officials and district workshops explaining judicial processes and civil and political rights.
In 2004 JSMP created the Women’s Justice Unit to focus on cases involving women victims of domestic violence as a result of researching the situation of women in the formal justice sector. In 2005 JSMP has established a Victim’s Support Service, a legal referral and legal aid service for women. The vision of JSMP is to be the foremost independent organization in Timor Leste that contributes to the development and improvement of the justice and legislative system through objective monitoring, analysis, advocacy and training.
Norway supports the Women’s Justice Unit of the JSMP that aims to develop the judicial system in Timor-Leste; to work towards the realization of women’s rights; to increase the capacity and understanding of female victims of violence to understand and access the formal justice system. With Norwegian support the Women’s Justice contributes to the development of the judicial system in Timor-Leste, particularly through building the understanding of judicial actors’ understanding of women’s rights. Through a variety of projects and programs, the Women’s Justice Unit will continue efforts to gender mainstream the legal system in Timor-Leste.
For additional information www.jsmp.minihub.org
Training for Women’s Local Leaders in Iliomar sub District.
University Students Participants in Seminar on Penal Code and Penal Procedure Code from Gender Perspective in University level.