Speaking Out for Justice: Bella Galhos and the International Campaign for the Independence of East Timor

Hannah Loney

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66206-0_8

Speaking Out for Justice: Bella Galhos and the International Campaign for the Independence of East Timor

Hannah Loney^*

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Australian Catholic University

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In this chapter, I explore the transnational feminist activism of Isabel ‘Bella’ Antonia da Costa Galhos, a prominent yet understudied East Timorese woman activist, and her role at a critical moment in the international campaign for the independence of East Timor. Drawing extensively upon oral history interviews, I trace Bella’s activism from the local to the global, placing her life and experiences within a broader frame of the internationalisation of East Timor’s independence struggle and the international women’s human rights movement. Using the language of women’s human rights and the mobilisation of personal testimony to this end, I contend that Bella played a key role in cultivating and sustaining a broad, international solidarity network for East Timor that included emerging communities of politically engaged women.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	193-226
Number of pages	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66206-0_8
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
ISSN (Print)	2634-6559
ISSN (Electronic)	2634-6567

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