Adaljíza Magno

Adaljiza Magno (2020)

Adaljíza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno (born January 7, 1975 in Baguia ) is an East Timorese diplomat and politician. She is a member of FRETILIN and was the acting Foreign Minister of East Timor in the interim government under Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva in 2007 . In 2015 she was appointed Ambassador of East Timor to Singapore and in 2017 she was appointed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. In 2020 she became Foreign Minister of East Timor.

To person

Adaljiza Magno was born to Ana Xavier G. Magno and Alberto dos Reis Magno. Since October 2003 Adaljiza Magno has been married to Rosantino Amado Hei dos Anjos. They have one daughter, Rosejiza Nabilan Magno Hei.

Magno has published various articles on law, women and the economy. She is fluent in Makasae , Tetum , Portuguese , Bahasa Indonesia and English .

Career

Eleven months after Magno's birth, Indonesia began the occupation of East Timor. Magno's family fled to Mount Matebian , a center of the FRETILIN resistance against the invaders. The family lived on the run for four years before returning to Baguia in 1979. In 1980 she surrendered to the Indonesian army because she was threatened with starvation.

Magno attended primary school from 1982 to 1987, pre-secondary school from 1987 to 1990 and secondary school in Dili from 1990 to 1993 . She graduated from the Sebelas Maret National University in Surakarta / Indonesia with a degree in economics.

Before she was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 2001, which later became the national parliament, Magno was a women activist and since her studies in Indonesia she was active in the student movement that worked for the independence of East Timor. From 1993 to 1998 she was a member of the Organization of Catholic Students of the Republic of Indonesia PMKRI in Surakarta and joined the SAHE Study Club in Jakarta in 1998 . At the same time, she and friends founded a communication forum for East Timorese women ( FORELSAN ) in Yogyakarta .

Magno returned to her homeland for the 1999 referendum on East Timor's independence from Indonesia. After the announcement of the result, which spoke in favor of independence, there were massive attacks by pro-Indonesian militias on the population. Magno and her family, like many other residents, fled to Kupang in West Timor . When militias attacked the refugees here, too, the family fled to Bali and did not return to East Timor until the international intervention force INTERFET arrived in October 1999.

In 1999, Magno was a co-founder of the Sahe Institute for Liberation SIL , a non-governmental organization that advocates education for the population, and worked for SIL until 2001. From November 1999 to June 2000 Magno also worked for the human rights organization HAK as a coordinator for questions of popular education and for the communication forum for East Timorese women FOKUPERS .

In 2000 Magno represented the East Timor Trade Union Confederation at the 88th Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva . In the same year she took part in a speaker tour of the non-governmental organization East Timor and Indonesia Action Network , which took her to 22 states in the USA . Magno also taught human rights at the Timor-Leste National University (UNTL).

In 2001 Magno was appointed a member of the Organizing Committee for the Development of the East Timor Women’s Network . From June to August 2001 she was the UNFPA's contact on the subject of domestic violence in East Timor.

In 2003 Magno took part in an exchange program with the People's Republic of China for FRETILIN , which focused on politics, culture, economy and history.

From 2001 to 2005, Adaljiza Magno was a member of the East Timorese National Parliament and, at the age of 26, the youngest member of parliament. In addition, Magno has been appointed Secretary of Parliament's Committee on Economic and Financial Affairs.

Magno (3rd from left) as one of the 2015 appointed ambassadors to President Taur Matan Ruak

From July 2005 to 2007 Magno was the deputy foreign minister in the Alkatiri and Ramos-Horta governments . Here she was the youngest member of the government. After the resignation of Ramos-Horta, Magno was appointed by his successor Estanislau da Silva on May 19, 2007 as acting foreign minister of the transitional government, which remained in office until the new government took office after the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007 on August 8 . In the elections, Magno was only 60th in FRETILIN and thus had practically no chance of getting one of the 65 seats in the new parliament.

From 2002 to 2006 Magno was again active for HAK and from 2004 to 2007 for FOKUPERS. In 2007 she also represented the civil organizations at the third East Timor donors meeting in Canberra . From 2012 to 2014 Magno completed a master's degree at Victoria University of Wellington in Public Management & Policy. On November 19, 2015, Magno was appointed East Timor's new ambassador to Singapore. So they broke chargé Domingos Savio from. The ambassador was previously Roberto Soares .

On October 2, 2017, Magno was appointed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. The swearing-in did not take place, as with the other new members of the government on October 3rd, because Magno was still in Singapore. On October 17th, Magno was finally sworn in. Her term of office as Vice Minister ended when the Eighth Government of East Timor took office on June 22, 2018.

With the change in the government coalition and the admission of FRETILIN into the VIII government , Magno was sworn in as Foreign Minister on May 29, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Adaljiza Magno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

• Women of the FRETILIN. Biography published by the party.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guide 2 women leaders: Foreign Ministers Chronological .
2. ^ East Timor Legal Information Site: Constitution of the 2002 - 2007 Parliament ( Memento of July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Guide 2 women leaders: Timor-Leste Ministers .
4. ↑ The President of East Timor's Facebook page: Prezidente Repúblika Taur Matan Ruak fó pose ba Emabixadores , November 19, 2015 , accessed on April 13, 2016
5. ↑ Website of the President of East Timor: HE THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, TAUR MATAN RUAK, SWEARS IN THE AMBASSADORS OF TIMOR-LESTE TO CHINA, JAPAN, THE HOLY SEE, CAMBODIA, THAILAND AND SINGAPORE , November 19, 2015 , accessed April 22, 2015 2016.
6. ↑ Diário de Notícias: PR timorense assina novo decreto de nomeação membros do Governo, mais duas mulheres , October 2, 2017 , accessed on October 2, 2017.
7. ↑ Diário de Notícias: PR timorense empossa últimos cinco membros do VII Governo constitucional , October 17, 2017 , accessed on October 17, 2017.
8. ↑ Prime Minister of East Timor: Estrutura orgânica do VIII Governo Constitucional toma de posse completo-re estruturado 2020 , June 24, 2020 , accessed on June 25, 2020.