- News
- Video
- People
-
Voices
-
Find by writer
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
- Rebecca Armstrong
- Memphis Barker
- Max Benwell
- Chris Blackhurst
- Ian Burrell
- Andrew Buncombe
- Ben Chu
- Patrick Cockburn
- Mary Dejevsky
- Grace Dent
- Robert Fisk
- Andrew Grice
- Stefano Hatfield
- Lucy Hunter Johnston
- Howard Jacobson
- Alice Jones
- Ellen E Jones
- Comment
- Editorials
- Letters
- Happy List
- Campaigns
- Archive
- Our Voices
- Commentators
- Columnists
- Democracy 2015
- IV Drip Archive
- Blogs
- If I were PM
- Scottish independence
- Save the tiger
- The state of the NHS
-
Find by writer
- Sport
- Tech
- Life
- Property
- Arts + Ents
- Travel
- Money
- IndyBest
- Student
- Offers
It is ironic that the UN Centre for Human Rights should have decided to hold a workshop in a country that has one of the world's worst human rights records.
The continuing detention, torture and extra-judicial killings in Aceh, West Papua and occupied East Timor are clear evidence of the systematic abuse of human rights by the Indonesian government.
Indonesia is ruled by an authoritarian and undemocratic regime, where the exercise of basic freedoms of assembly, association and expression is regarded as subversive.
We are aware of concerted action on the part of many repressive Asian governments to undermine the universality of basic human rights as enshrined in international covenants and to assert the interests of the state over and above the rights of individuals and minorities.
The Jakarta workshop must not be allowed to give ideological legitimacy to the attempts of repressive and dictatorial governments to advance their own interests at the expense of individual rights and aspirations towards democracy.
Yours faithfully,
JONATHAN HUMPHRIES
The British Coalition
for East Timor
London, E1
25 January
- < Previous
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- Next >
Related Articles
iJobs General
Recruitment Genius: Call Centre Sales Operations Manager
£40000 - £75000 per annum: Recruitment Genius: This innovative online car purc...
Recruitment Genius: HR and Administrative Assistant
£23000 - £26000 per annum: Recruitment Genius: This Data Management organisati...
Recruitment Genius: Part-Time Video Inventory and Inspection Clerk
£14500 per annum: Recruitment Genius: A part-time video Inventory and Inspecti...
Recruitment Genius: Designer - Web & Motion / Video
£15000 - £20000 per annum: Recruitment Genius: This is an opportunity to join ...