The Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP) is an East Timor

East Timor

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...

ese (Timor-Leste) national NGO that works in the justice and human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

 fields. It was founded in April 2001 by two international Lawyers, Christian Ranheim and Caitlinn Reiger.

It is funded by a range of international donors including AusAID, USAID, NZAID, The Asia Foundation, the United Nations

United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

 and by individual supporters around the world. It has a membership structure.

According to its website, JSMP aims to be the foremost independent organisation in Timor Leste that contributes to the development and improvement of the justice and legislative system through objective monitoring, analysis, advocacy and training.

Its specific goals are to:

• Support and advance the rule of law and human rights
• Advance the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession and the administration of justice in full compliance with standards of international law
• Promote the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards and other legal rules and principles that advance human rights and the rule of law
• Promote the establishment and enforcement of a legal system which protects individuals and groups against violations of their human rights
• Promote understanding of and compliance with the rule of law and human rights and provide assistance to those to whom the rule of law and human rights are denied
• Promote equality and the right of everyone to receive equal and fair access to justice and treatment under the law.

In 2004, the Judicial System Monitoring Programme and Amnesty International

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

 published a joint report critical of the Indonesian government's judicial response to the 1999 violence in Timor-Leste.

JSMP is a member organization of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development is a membership-based human rights organization "committed to the promotion and protection of all human rights including the right to development". They were founded in 1991 in Manila, and are now based in Geneva, Switzerland. Their Secretariat...

(FORUM-ASIA).