Countries: East Timor
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

According to the U.S. State Department's 2023 TIP report, Timor-Leste ranks as a Tier 2 country (85).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: DV-DATA-1

According to 2022 data from the WHO's Global Health Observatory, the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls (aged 15-49) in Timor-Leste who have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in their lifetime is 38 percent (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: MMR-SCALE-1

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Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R Congo, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad/Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Variables: DACH-SCALE-2

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Countries: East Timor
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

According to a 2023 report on global trends in maternal mortality from 2000-2020 published by the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and UNDESA/Population Division, in 2020 the maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) in Timor-Leste was 204 (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: DACH-DATA-1

According to the World Bank, as of 2021, life expectancy in Timor-Leste is 70 years for women and 66 years for men (KMM-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law provides for the valuation of nonmonetary contributions. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 1610 and 1615-1617.

Countries: East Timor
Variables: IRP-LAW-1

"Is selling sex criminalised? Selling sex is legal and there are no other laws criminalising associated activities. Police raids on sex work premises are designed to target migrant workers breaching immigration law, they are arrested and deported" (para. 1). "Is buying sex criminalised? No" (para. 2). "Is organising/managing criminalised? Yes - third parties are the focus of the 'prostitution' law, the Penal Code creates the offence of sexual exploitation of a third party and this covers any person who makes a livelihood from, promotes, facilities, or by any other means contributes towards engaging another person in 'prostitution'" (para. 3).

Countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Variables: BR-SCALE-1

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Countries: East Timor
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"Each spouse shall manage his or her own property" (337). The most recent laws noted in the WomanStats Database (since 2011) relating to property ownership are still current as of December 2022 and no changes have been made, as verified by consulting The Women, Business, and the Law database for 2022 (JLR-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: Angola, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote D'Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Eritrea, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Moldova, Namibia, Nepal, Slovakia, Somalia, Suriname, Thailand, Turkmenistan
Variables: MARR-SCALE-2

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Countries: East Timor
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Civil Code, Arts. 2000(1)(a) and 2006.

Countries: East Timor
Variables: IAW-PRACTICE-1, IAD-PRACTICE-1

"In some areas, customary law does not allow women to inherit land. An exception are the few matrilineal communities, such as Búnaque, Tetum-Terik und Galoli, where women can own and inherit land and property" (19).

Countries: East Timor
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1

"Land Law No. 13/2017, on the ownership of land titles, ensures women and men have the same right to be title holders of land in Timor-Leste, however women in rural areas of the country are denied their right to the land because of traditional barriers...The Secretary of the Women’s Parliamentary Group (GMPTL), MP Elvina de Sousa said societies in rural areas continue to adopt customs that dictate women have no right to land and property because when they get married they will live with their husbands. She said this traditional mindset represents a challenge for the government in implementing the land law. However, she said the government and civil society...more

Countries: East Timor
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

"Van Wouden spoke of an asymmetric connnubium, which encompasses these arrangements, where the wife’s family has higher status than the husband’s, particularly where the unequal exchange of gifts between the families of the marrying couple occurs; and where cross cousin marriage only occurs in one direction, but not the other. Increased urbanisation because of relocations has forced this change to marriage patterns. Cross cousin marriage is frowned upon by the church, and has ceased in the towns, but continues in more remote areas in the mountains, away from the eye of the church" (para 5-6).