My friend Fausto Belo Ximenes, known as Nino, who has died suddenly aged 43, was one of the first Timorese country directors of a major humanitarian agency (Oxfam) in his home country of Timor-Leste.

Before Oxfam, Nino worked as a human rights officer with the UN (2001), as a legal researcher with a local NGO monitoring transitional justice (2002), as an adviser to the Timorese ministry of education (2012), as a senior access to justice manager on a USAID project (2013) and as a graduate researcher at Pembroke College, Oxford (2018).

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.