From our member Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP), Timor-Leste – September 2018 Report on the need to amend the Timor-Leste Penal Code
1 September 2018 1:47 pm
FORUM-ASIA member from Timore-Leste, Judicial System Monitoring Program (JSMP), published its Incest Report on the need to Amend the Timor-Leste Penal Code. Published in September 2018, the report focuses on the following:
- Incest in Timor-Leste
- JSMP’s Court Monitoring Statistics
- Areas of Concern in Pre-trial and Trial Proceedings
- Use of protective or coercive measures
- Delays with trials
- Sentencing in cases of incest
- Failure to award civil compensation
- Proposals for Change
- Amendments to the Penal Code
- Creation of a crime of incest
- Compliance with international human rights law
- Victim-centred approach to cases of incest
For a PDF version of this report, click here.