Lourdes Alves Araújo

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Lourdes Maria Assunção de Jesus Mascarenhas Alves Araújo (* 1956 ), fighting name Merita , is a politician and suffragette from East Timor . She is a member of FRETILIN .

Career

Araújo comes from Ermera and went to school with Rosa Bonaparte (probably at the school of the Canossians in Ossu ). Together with Bonaparte, Araújo was a leading member of the Organização Popular de Mulheres Timorense OPMT, the women's organization of FRETILIN, in 1975 . Araújo also belonged to the FRETILIN student organization UNETIM.

Araújo fled the Indonesian invasion on December 7, 1975 into the mountains. In 1978 she got caught in a cauldron in Metinaro with 10,000 other people and was captured by the Indonesians . She was taken to Dili and suffered rape and torture at the Sang Tai Ho Integration Center . Later released, she and her husband Octávio Jordão de Araújo were arrested again on December 18, 1992. They were taken to the Comarca prison in Balide , where Lourdes again witnessed torture.

After the Indonesians left in 1999, Araújo was elected to FRETILIN's list number 9 in the 2001 elections to the East Timorese Constituent Assembly, which was converted into the East Timor’s National Parliament after the country was sacked in 2002 . In the new elections in 2007 , Araújo failed to rank 48th on the list. FRETILIN only got 21 seats.

On October 10, 2012, Araújo was elected to the State Council for five years by parliament . Her term of office ended in 2017.

Araújo is the general secretary of the OPMT, succeeding Rosa Bonaparte.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Amnesty International: UA 403/92 Legal concern / Fear of torture, AI Index: 21/25/92 , December 18, 1992 , accessed on July 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Hannah Loney: 'The Target of a Double Exploitation': Gender and Nationalism in Portuguese Timor, 1974-75 , Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 37, March 2015 , accessed July 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b South East Asia Digital Library: Lourdes Maria Assunção Alves Araújo , accessed on July 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ List of MPs in the National Parliament of East Timor ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ List of candidates from the STAE (PDF; 819 kB)
  6. ↑ Ministry of Justice: resolução DO PARLAMENTO 15/2012 , October 10, 2012 , accessed on 16 September 2017th
  7. ↑ The Guardian: 'Violence has not left our homes': the fight goes on for female guerrillas in Timor-Leste , December 29, 2017 , accessed on July 29, 2019.
  8. ↑ FRETILIN Media: rganização Popular Mulheres Timor, COMUNICADO A IMPRENSA, Comemoração do Dia Internacional Da Mulher , March 8, 2012 , accessed on July 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ OPMT Nasional: Reuniaun Konselho Koordenador , May 27, 2019 , accessed on July 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Araújo, Lourdes Alves
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Araújo, Lourdes Maria Assunção de Jesus Mascarenhas Alves (full name); Merita (battle name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956