[ETAN-key] March 1, NYC - Jill Sternberg on Human Rights, Women’s Rights and the Struggle for Justice in Timor-Leste

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Jill Sternberg on Human Rights, Women’s Rights 
and the Struggle for Justice in Timor-Leste

March 1st, 2011, 7 pm
339 Lafayette St., New York, NY
between Bleecker and Bond Streets

Please join ETAN in welcoming long-term 
solidarity activist Jill Sternberg for a 
presentation on recent developments in 
Timor-Leste. Jill will discuss Timor-Leste’s 
pressing human rights issues and activism, 
including women’s rights struggles and efforts to 
end domestic violence. She will highlight recent 
efforts in the struggle for justice and 
accountability for crimes committed against the 
Timorese throughout the Indonesian occupation between 1975-1999.

Jill Sternberg (bio)
For the past ten years, Jill has been 
accompanying the people of Timor-Leste in their 
struggle for self-determination. She was a United 
Nations accredited observer for the August 30, 
1999 vote for independence in East Timor, and has 
observed every national election there since. In 
2007 she coordinated the ETAN initiated 
Solidarity Observer Mission (SOMET) for the 
country’s first parliamentary elections since 
independence. From 2000-2004, Jill assisted Nobel 
Peace Laureate José Ramos-Horta to develop the 
Peace and Democracy Foundation, a peace center 
focused on conflict transformation. From 
2008-2011 she worked at HAK Association, a 
leading human rights organization, where her work 
focused on communications and building support 
and solidarity for a free, fair and independent Timor-Leste.
Jill has organized, designed and facilitated 
diversity, gender, and nonviolent conflict 
transformation programs across the globe, 
emphasizing nonviolent intervention in conflict 
situations, and an analysis from a power 
perspective with a focus on gender. Her aim is to 
empower people to develop concrete positive ways 
to address the causes of violence and war, and to 
support local actors working for peace. Jill’s 
organizing and training work encourages strategic 
local, national and international activism.


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