Location: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste

The launch of the book “Understanding Human Rights – Educational Manual on Human Rights” will be held next July 21st, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste.

This event is organized by the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice of Timor-Leste and the National University, in collaboration with the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (acronym in Portuguese: CPLP).

CPLP supported the development of the Portuguese version, with the original work written by Wolfgang Benedek, an initiative of the Ius Gentium Conimbrigae / Centre for Human Rights at the University of Coimbra. This manual is primarily addressed to all CPLP countries and includes a section with bibliographic references and institutional information on CPLP Member States.

The work was previously released in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Portugal.

For more information please see http://www.fd.uc.pt/igc/manual/


“Understanding Human Rights – Educational Manual on Human Rights” Book release program

02h00 p.m. – 03h00 p.m.: Book launch
- Ambassador Murade Murargy, Executive Secretary of CPLP
- Silvério Pinto Baptista, Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice of Timor-Leste

03h00 p.m. – 04h00 p.m.: Interventions
- Ivo Valente, Minister of Justice of Timor-Leste
- Hernâni Coelho, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Timor-Leste
- Aurélio Guterres, Rector of the National University of Timor Lorosa’e
- Arsénio Pereira da Silva, Executive Director of the Forum ONG Timor-Leste (FONGTIL)


04h00 p.m. – 05h15 p.m.: Presentation of the book
- Carla Gomes and Rita Páscoa dos Santos

05h15 p.m. – 05h30 p.m.: Closing
- Maria Ângela Guterres Viegas Carrascalão, Dean of the Faculty of Law of UNTL.