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Human RightsJennie S. BevLatest ArticlesSelf-Empowerment: the First Step to Human Rights Consciousness An empowered self doesn’t have the fear to try, the fear to listen and the fear to be different. It emerges without boundaries. This is the first step to human rights consciousness. Teaching Human Rights Early from the Beginning There is no better time to teach human rights than the first day at school. The first time of everything retains longer in our minds: the first kiss, the first car, the first bungee jump, the first day at school. The first human rights educator network in Indonesia A joint effort has been established among human rights educators in Indonesia. Collaborations with other human rights worldwide would be warm-heartedly welcomed! PRESS RELEASE FROM EAST TIMOR NETWORK: UN Staff Murdered UNHCR workers were murdered in East Timor and a prominent Aceh human rights activist was killed. Now is the time to break the silence. What You Can Do to Help (Tips) I've been searching long and wide: what can I do in an emergency where human rights are being violated everyday? The answer is not easy, not easy at all. I've been turned down, laughed at and blown away. But one needs to do what one needs to do, doesn't she? X of X: A Special Message for the International Communities Solidarity for the Motherland and Nation will be delivering a message in the sub-committee meeting for UN Human Rights Commssioner in Geneva on July 31, 2000. (Update: July 24, 2000) IX of X: Racism, A Definition by Ester I. Jusuf The following definition of racism is developed by Ester Indahyani Jusuf, a prominent Indonesian human rights attorney whose works and advocacies have been known worldwide. She has attended numerous international conferences on human rights, racism and discrimination, including those organized by the United Nations. Being a triple-minority herself (she is of ... VIII of X: Growing Up A Minority Female in Indonesia Growing up as a part of the minority in Indonesia is degrading and, at the same time, making one feeling unsheltered. One small mistake in mingling with the majority can cost more than one can bear. Nothing and nobody can guarantee your safety. Not the government, not the law, not the ... VII of X: A Jewel in Agony Continues To this very day, Indonesia is, indeed, a jewel in agony. Prior to the devastating monetary crisis in md-1997 that ruined everybody’s plan for the following fiscal year, Indonesia has been nicknamed “The Jewel of Equator” for centuries. Its rich cultivation of rain forests assembled the 13,000 islands into a row ... VI of X: From Indonesia to Mdm. Mary Robinson (ii) Indonesia's Solidarity for the Motherland and Nation actively participated in the fifty-sixth Session of The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to implement the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, at The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva. Read the ... |
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