Laura Soares Abrantes

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Laura Soares Abrantes (2019)

Laura Soares Abrantes is an East Timorese sociologist, independence and women's activist.

Career

As a student in Java , Abrantes was already active in the East Timorese resistance against the Indonesian occupation (1974-1999). She graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in educational psychology. In East Timor, Abrantes continued to work in the resistance with the help of her work with the Catholic scouts and a worker for Caritas and the women's rights organization Fokupers in Dili .

In 2011, Abrantes received a master's degree in sociology in Brazil for her work on the Timorese women's network Rede-Feto Timor-Leste . In 2012 she was a gender consultant for the East Timorese women's rights organization APSC-TL. On October 23, 2017, Abrantes was appointed to the East Timor State Council by President Francisco Guterres .

Publications

  • Interview for Buibere: Voice of East Timorese Women , East Timor International Support Center, Darwin 1999. Edition in Tetum : Buibere: Lian Feto Timor Lorosa'e Nian , Fokupers, Dili 2001.
  • Hakerek ho Ran ( German  written in blood ), Dili 2003.
  • Interview for Independent Women: The Story of women's activism in East Timor , Catholic Institute for International Relations, London 2005.
  • Hau Fo Midar Hau Simu Moruk ( German  I give sweetness, I get bitterness ), Dili 2007.
  • Baseline Study on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Covalima and Bobonaro , APSC-TL, 2009
  • Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival , Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin 2011.
  • Together with Isabel Beba Sequeira: Secrecy: The Key to Independence , 2012. Edition in Tetum: Xave ba Ukun Rasik-An , Dili 2008. Orally transmitted history of women from Timor.

Web links

Commons : Laura Soares Abrantes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hunter East Timor Sisters: Notes on the editors Laura Soares Abrantes and Isabel 'Beba' Sequeira by Jude Conway , accessed January 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ The President's Facebook page: Press Release , October 23, 2017 , accessed on October 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Abrantes, Laura Soares
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese activist and sociologist, member of the State Council
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century