Human Rights
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Self-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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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)
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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 Chinese ethnic, Christian and female), she has been representing the minorities in Indonesia to speak out to the world for years. She is the Chairperson of Solidarity for The Motherland and Nation-Indonesia, a respected non-profit human rights organization in Indonesia.
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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 armed forces. Being a female, an ethnic Chinese and a Catholic increase the odds exponentially. Only with a strong and intense commitment to live and to stay alive can a member of this triple-fold minority survive.
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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 of emerald gem. A beautiful nickname for a nation in agony.
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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 item 12 intervention addressed to Mdm. Mary Robinson. (Note: This item was not delivered due to the time constraint.)
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V of X: From Indonesia to Mdm. Mary Robinson (i)
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 item 6 intervention addressed to Mdm. Mary Robinson.
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IV of X: Racial Violence in Indonesia
For 32 years, the ethnic Chinese have been targeted as one of
the main "victims" by the government system; it is a systematic
discrimination. The discrimination has been embedded subtly, and
yet very clearly in the government's procedures and policies.
Security and safety always come with an "under the table" price
tag, which is a form of crime. Currently, there are at least 16
laws that could be considered as racist. Thirteen out of the
sixteen could be considered as targeted directly against ethnic
Chinese, covering the areas of civil, political and social
rights. Nine out of those thirteen are the products of the New
Order Regime, which introduced most of them in its early days.
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III of X: Beyond the Religious Conflicts of North Maluku
The mass civilian killings of North Maluku have began to subside
with the increasingly forceful action taken by the government
through the military. The dilemmas, which haunt the people of
North Maluku, which are far more tangible than the
superficiality of the conflict between two religious groups,
however, remain untouched and unsolved.
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II of X: The Int'l Day for the Elimination of Racism
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination marks the day on which the much of the world agreed that racism in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned in all parts of the globe.
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Indonesia Series I of X: Urgent Statement from Indonesia
Despite the image that Indonesia is a land of smiling faces and warm heart, human rights abusers have not been proved to be fairly prosecuted. Below is a statement issued by Solidaritas Nusa Bangsa, also known as Solidarity for the Motherland and Nation in English. They urge a thorough investigation on abuses performed during the Indonesia's former President Soeharto's New Order Regime ruling.
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International Courts Part III of III: Int'l Court of Justice
The establishment of The International Court of Justice is intended to perform trials in the events of international law disputes between states and to provide advisory opinions on legal issues referred by international organs and agencies within the United Nations.
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International Courts Part II of III:International Criminal Court
Criminals against humanity will soon be prosecuted by the permanent International Criminal Court, provided that it has been ratified by 60 countries. Read about its idealism and controversies in this article.
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International Courts Part I of III: International Tribunal Court
The definitions of and differences among International Tribunal Court; International Criminal Court; and International Court of Justice, and how they preserve justice in our humane world.
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Human Rights Law vs. Humanitarian Law (Part II of II)
The subjects of Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law are basic rights inherently belong to every one of us as dignified human beings. This signifies the common ground. Humanitarian Law is not to be confused with Human Rights Law, however, since there are several key factors that distinguish one from the other.
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Human Rights Law vs. Humanitarian Law (Part I of II)
Do you know that human rights law differ from humanitarian law? How does it vary in meaning and how are they being imposed? This article tries to answer these questions in the simplest way possible for those interested in human rights issues.
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