Time:
08/29/2016 - 15:45-08/29/2016 - 17:00
Room:
Cempaka Room at Puri Dalem Hotel
Session IV: The Stolen Children
Session Track:
Human Rights Workshop
This Workshop will be held over 1 day (29 August 2016) and is being co-organised by Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), Bridges Across Borders South East Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEACLE) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These sessions will address current and pressing human rights issues and involve in depth discussions on steps to moving forward to improve the current human rights situation in the region. Each of the three areas to be covered in the workshop relates to one of AJAR’s core programs, focused on addressing mass human rights violations in contexts of transitions to democracy in the Asia Pacific region.
Speaker(s):
Galuh Wandita
Patrick Burgess
During the 24 year long military occupation of East Timor by Indonesia at least 4,000 children were taken from Timor to Indonesia by members of the Indonesian security forces. Little has been known of the fate of these children until a recent program led by AJAR has focused on uncovering the facts behind the program, identifying and finding some of the children and reuniting them with their families in Timor Leste. AJAR has produced a short film on the stolen children of Timor Leste and the program of reuniting them with their parents. This session will include a viewing of the 20 minute film, discussion of the program with those who have led it, and a contextualization of this field of violations and related examples such of those in Argentina, Canada and Australia.
