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1: An East Timorese woman in traditional dress (photo IrenaCristalis)

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2: Olandina Caeiro (photo Irena Cristalis)3: Maria Domingas Fernandes (photo Irena Cristalis)4: Teresa Carvalho (photo Irena Cristalis)5: Ivete de Oliveira (photo Irena Cristalis)6: Milena Pires (centre, answering media questions following the loss

of the vote on quotas for women candidates in the ConstituentAssembly elections, February 2001) (photo Catherine Scott)

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7: Laura Abrantes and Maria Dias (photo Catherine Scott)8: Maria Lourdes Martins Cruz (Mana Lou) (photo Irena Cristalis)9: Mana Bisoi (photo Irena Cristalis)10: Mana Bisoi pictured with her uncle, Falintil resistance army

commander L-Foho Rai Boot (photo Irena Cristalis)11: Falintil women sewing insignias onto uniforms at the guerrilla

training camp in Waimori, 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

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12: A Falintil family (photo Irena Cristalis)13: A woman in the Falintil resistance army with her child (photo

Irena Cristalis)14: Falintil women working as nurses, sitting in front of a makeshift

clinic at the guerrilla training camp in Waimori, 1999 (photoIrena Cristalis)

15: Young women members of Renetil singing the Falintil song at the24th anniversary celebrations of Falintil at the guerrilla trainingcamp in Waimori, 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

16: East Timorese student activists in Semarang, Java, Indonesia,demonstrating in 1998 in support of independence for East Timor(photo Irena Cristalis)

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17: Women at a remembrance ceremony in 1998 for victims of the1991 Santa Cruz massacre (when Indonesian troops opened fire ona peaceful demonstration in Dili, killing more than 270 EastTimorese) (photo Irena Cristalis)

18: Widows at a mass in commemoration of the victims of a massacreby a pro-Indonesian militia group at the Catholic church inLiquiça in April 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

19: Women collecting tin sheets to use to make shelters following thedestruction by the Indonesian military and militias after thereferendum in August 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

20: A woman holds a picture of Fr Hilario Madeira during a memorialservice held in Dili in 1999. Fr Hilario was one of three priestskilled in a massacre at Suai church in September 1999 (photo IrenaCristalis)

21: Two generations join together to oppose violence against women ata demonstration organised by Fokupers and other organisations inDili, November 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

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22: Women at the demonstration against violence, Dili, November1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

23: Men prepare to join a march against violence against women onInternational Women’s Day in March 2001 (photo CatherineScott)

24: Women at a Fretilin rally in 2001 (photo Irena Cristalis)25: A debate between women candidates in the run-up to the

Constituent Assembly elections in 2001 (photo Irena Cristalis)26: Olandina Caeiro addressing a rally prior to the Constituent

Assembly elections, flanked by (left) Maria Domingas Fernandesand (right) Teresa Carvalho (photo Irena Cristalis)

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27: Appolonia da Costa, one of two independent women candidates inthe district of Oecusse (photo Irena Cristalis)

28: A young supporter of Olandina Caeiro (photo Irena Cristalis)29: A young supporter of Maria Domingas Fernandes (photo Irena

Cristalis)30: Women in Lequidoe queuing to vote in the Constituent Assembly

elections (photo Irena Cristalis)31: Women in Lequidoe queuing to vote in the Constituent Assembly

elections (photo Irena Cristalis)

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32: Fretilin supporters the night of independence, 20 May 2002 (photoIrena Cristalis)

33: A woman holding a statue of Jesus (photo Irena Cristalis)34: The procession for Our Lady of Fatima in Dili, 1999 (photo Irena

Cristalis)35: Children in traditional costume welcoming Bishop Basilio do

Nascimento to a remote mountain village (photo Irena Cristalis)36: A primary school in Aileu, 1999 (photo Irena Cristalis)

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37: A woman weaving at a project in Dili run by the Organização daMulher Timorense (photo Irena Cristalis)

38: A woman in Ermera district picking coffee beans (photo IrenaCristalis)

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