Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro Alves

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Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro Alves (born March 20, 1956 in Ermera , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese diplomat, businesswoman, civil servant and women's rights activist. She was one of the co-founders of the East Timorese Women Against Violence organization (ETWAVE, formerly GERTAK) and is vice-chair of the East Timorese scouts.

Life

She was the only woman who worked for Radio Mauters in 1975 , the radio station of the East Timorese liberation organization FALINTIL , during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. In December 1975 she was caught by the Indonesians and imprisoned in Kupang . There she gave birth to her son. She never saw her husband, a FALINTIL fighter, again.>

Alves was released in 1979 and repeatedly arrested and tortured. Alves led the public life of a single mother during this time and worked as a civil servant in the Indonesian financial administration of Baucau until 1989 , but at the same time was still covertly active for the East Timorese resistance. After her last arrest in 1992, she lost her job and home. Then she opened a restaurant in Dili , the "Olandina's".

From 1997 to 1999 Alves was a member of the District Parliament (DPRD) and in 1998 was appointed a member of the Indonesian Commission on the Elimination of Violence against Women. As chairman of ETWAVE on November 25, 1998, Alves organized demonstrations against violence against East Timorese women. In the run-up to the 1999 independence referendum , she took part in the door-to-door campaign for the freedom of East Timor. But when Indonesian newspapers reported her death, she fled during the wave of violence in September via Jakarta to Lisbon , where she became one of the leading women in the independence movement.

Alves was Chair of the Public Service Commission from 2000 to 2001. She ran as an independent candidate in the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2001 , but did not get into the national parliament . After East Timor's independence in 2002, she was treasurer of the Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) and a member of the Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of East Timor (CAVR), which was supposed to deal with the crimes of the Indonesian occupation. In 2002 she also founded the Peace and Democracy Foundation , where she became a member of the board.

From 2003 Alves was President of Rede Feto, the national women's network, and co-founded the Academia de Café de Timor-Leste . On August 14, 2009 the Comissão da Função Pública (CFP, German  Commission of the Public Service ) was founded, of which Alves was one of the first three commissioners. From 2011 to 2015 Alves was East Timor's first consul general in Denpasar, Indonesia . From May 29, 2015 to 2017, she was the disciplinary commissioner of the CFP.

Alves has been the second Vice President of the East Timorese Boy Scouts since 2016 . On June 30, 2017, she was appointed East Timor's new Ambassador to Malaysia . She replaces José António Amorim Dias .

Web links

Commons : Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro Alves  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ETAN, May 13, 2006, RI, Timor Leste urged to get behind truth commission
  2. ↑ a b c d e DOTG Newsletter 01/04: "As the daughter of this country I had to do something" , February 1, 2004, accessed on April 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d CAVR : Chega! , P. 23 (English).
  4. ↑ SAPO.pt: Timor Leste vai às urnas: candidatos e propostas , August 29, 2001, accessed on December 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ Donna Pankhurst: Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-war Justice and Reconciliation , p. 101, 2008.
  6. ↑ CAVR website , accessed on April 13, 2016.
  7. ↑ Business Timor: ETCI selebra loron Dies Natalis ba Dala XI , September 22nd, 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 20, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jornalbisnistimor.com  
  8. ^ Website of the East Timorese government: Embaixadas de Timor-Leste , accessed on April 13, 2016.
  9. ↑ Comissão da Função Pública: Breve Historia da CFP ( Memento of the original of June 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 13, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cfp.gov.tl
  10. ↑ Jornal da República : Series II, No. 32 , August 14, 2015 , accessed July 1, 2016.
  11. ↑ Jornal da República : Series II, No. 3 , January 22, 2016 , accessed July 1, 2016.
  12. ^ Government of East Timor: New team for the Civil Service Commission sworn into office , June 1, 2015 , accessed February 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ UNE-TL: History - Assembelia Jeral sira UNE-TL nian (tetum), accessed on July 12, 2019.
  14. ↑ The President of East Timor's Facebook page: The President of the Republic Francisco Guterres Lú Olo, this Friday, 30 June, at Nicolau Lobato Presidential Palace, swore in Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro Alves as ambassador of Timor-Leste to Malaysia, replacing ambassador José Amorin . , accessed July 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Alves, Maria Olandina Isabel Caeiro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese civil servant, businesswoman, diplomat and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermera , Portuguese Timor