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Joao Almeida

Joao Almeida is Deputy Director of Fundasaun Mahein, a Timorese NGO monitoring the security sector.

The National Registry and Notarisation Directorate in the Ministry of Justice in Timor-Leste (Photo: Gordon Peake)

11 June 2020

Adventures in the East Timorese bureaucracy

by Joao Almeida and Gordon Peake

Young men hold vigil outside the homes of the victims' families, in front of anti-police graffiti that now covers the neighbourhood (Photo: Bardia Rahmani)

20 November 2018

Tragic Dili shooting shows Timor policing still in need of reform

by Joao Almeida, Gordon Peake and Bu Wilson

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