Canadian support for economic development in East Timor began in 1990 with a small grant to ETADEP, which the Canadian government considered to be the only true Timorese NGO. The most significant early player was the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, which provided both funding and human rights support, especially for the Peace and Justice Office created by Bishop Belo. -Jess Agustin of Development and Peace with Bishop Belo in Dili, 1999
Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna meets with members of the developemnt NGO USC Canada and Timorese organization RAEBIA (formerly USC), in Ottawa, 2016.
An image of some of the participants at the annual informal meeting of East Timor solidarity groups held each year in Europe. This session was in the 1990s and timed to coincide with the annual meetings of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Exact date unknown. Pictured are Luisa Teotonio Pereira (Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People, Portugal); Jean Inglis (Free East Timor! Campaign, Japan), Sister Minica Nakamura (Free East Timor! Campaign, Japan) and Judy Gilson (Australia).
Bella Galhos and Bev Bedford of ETAN/Winnipeg, with effigies of Indoneisan president Suharto and Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien, Winnipeg, Canada.
Item is a publication produced by Michael Chamberlain for the Asian Center in 1980. It is entitled "East Timor's Secret Suffering" and exposes the human rights violations which were then taking place in East Timor under Indonesian occupation.
Item is a publication produced by the Asian Center with Noam Chomsky in 1980. It features an editorial-style article written by Chomsky, entitled "Why should we devote attention to East Timor, a small and remote place that most Americans have never even heard of?"
Item is a leaflet published by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid in 1990. It describes the situation in East Timor up to 1990 and offers guidance towards a resolution in the decade that followed.
