Pat Walsh (lawyer)

Pat Walsh is an Australian attorney and East Timor activist. He comes from South Purrumbete in the Australian state of Victoria .

Career

Walsh began his work for the rights of the East Timorese in the mid-1970s as a chaplain of the Young Christian Students (YCS) and as a member of the Australia-East Timor Association (AETA) in Melbourne . From 1978 he worked continuously in the Action for World Development funded by the Christian churches . In the early 1980s, Walsh was hired as a consultant to the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) for its East Timor sub-committee. As a result of his work the Senate investigation into Timor, the support of aid groups for East Timorese refugees, the bringing together of families of refugees in Australia and the support of the Christians in Solidarity with East Timor (CISET) and the Inside Indonesia magazine .

In 1985 Walsh became Executive Director of the ACFOA Human Rights Program, where he continued to oversee Timor and other human rights violations in the area for the next 15 years. he also visited Indonesia and, from 1989, East Timor. He created the East Timor Talks Campaign , supported the formation of the East Timorese-led East Timor Human Rights Center in Melbourne and when it finally came to the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 , Walsh was a member of the official Australian election observer mission.

In 2000, Walsh co-founded CHART (Clearing House of Archival Records on Timor Inc.). From that year Walsh lived in East Timor. First he worked as an advisor in the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Interim Administration for East Timor (UNTAET), where he was instrumental in founding the Reception, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of East Timor (CAVR). Ab Walsh was Chief Advisor to the Post-CAVR Secretariat responsible for the publication of the Chega! and the CAVR archive was responsible.

Walsh has lived in Melbourne again since 2010. In 2016 Walsh supported the East Timorese government in founding the Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC), which now manages the legacy of the CAVR.

family

Walsh is married to Annie Keogh. The couple have three daughters and one grandson.

Awards

In 2009, Walsh received the Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste from East Timor's President José Ramos-Horta . In 2012 the Order of Australia (AM) followed for his "service to the international community in the Asia-Pacific region, as an advocate for human rights, especially in East Timor".

Publications

• East Timor's Political Parties and Groupings Briefing Notes , Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001 ( Memento from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; MS Word ; 174 kB)
• At the scene of the crime: Essays, reflections and poetry on East Timor, 1999-2010 , Melbourne 2011.
• Stormy With a Chance of Fried Rice: Twelve Months in Jakarta , Jakarta 2015.
• Redeeming the past , 2017.
• Growing flowers in a prison , 2017.
• The Day Hope and History Rhymed in East Timor and Other East Timor Stories , Jakarta 2019.
• Australia's illogic over Timor and West Papua , 2019.

• Complete list of publications

Web links

• Personal homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal homepage , accessed on February 11, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} CHART: CHART co-founder honored for Timor work , Mosaic Press, Melbourne, 2011 , accessed on February 10, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Personal Homepage - Profiles , accessed on February 11, 2020.
4. ↑ Student Conservators for Timor-Leste: Who is ... Pat Walsh , 2017 , accessed February 10, 2020.
5. ↑ Jornal da República: DECRETO PRESIDENTE 25/2009, August 30, 2009, accessed on January 31, 2020.