Gender violence is a domestic and community reality in Timor-Leste.This paper gives an in-depth analysis of the DV (Domestic Violence) and SGBV (Sexual and Gender-Based Violence ) outstanding issues, challenges, development and prospects. For the world’s newest nation, much progress has been made in legislation promulgated since the restoration of independence in 2002. Now the need is for these various platforms of action to be pervasively socialized with all the citizens of Timor-Leste and for sustainable funding to be made available to achieve these goal. Despite these problems Timorese women have been granted legal empowerment and so been given hope for a better life.