Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-120-2011
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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-120-2011
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AHRC-STM-083-2011 – A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the Occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2011
AI Index: ASA 21/015/2011
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-117-2011
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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-115-2011
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Yones Douw, a human rights activist in the Indonesian province of Papua, was beaten by military officers on 15 June and has been denied medical treatment.
Indonesia's support for an international convention on domestic workers must be followed by the enactment of a domestic workers' law in Indonesia, Amnesty International said today.
Indonesia has often failed to successfully prosecute crimes targeting religious minorities, exacerbating a culture of violent persecution.
June 16, 2011
Jakarta/Brussels – Five years after the first post-conflict elections in Aceh brought former guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, GAM) to power, local elections s
Index: ASA 21/012/2011
AWPA has written to the Pacific Islands Forum leaders urging them to discuss the human rights situation in West Papua at their summit in Auckland in September (letter below).
Indonesia's election to the Human Rights Council should be an impetus for rights reform at home.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Merdeka Palace
Jakarta, Indonesia
Via facsimile, email
Dear President Yudhoyono,
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
PO Box 28, Spit Junction
Sydney, Australia 2088
7 June 2011
Re West Papua and Pacific Islands Forum
The Indonesian government must end the use of caning as a form of punishment and repeal the laws that allow it in Aceh province, Amnesty International said today after at least 21 peopl
Dear comrades,
To all components of West Papuan society,
inside and outside of the Land of Papua
Liberation greetings,
Today, May 1, 2011, We the people of West Papua mediated by the West Papua National Committee [KNPB] give our statement that:
In the aftermath of the bloody tragedy that began on April 13 2011, the people of Dogiyai Regency have fled their homes.
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-079-2011
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AI Index: ASA 21/010/2011
"Together for the History of the Star of the East"
A statement from Amnesty International, KontraS, Imparsial, Elsam, Setara Institute, ICRP, HRWG, ANBTI, ILRC and Wahid Institute.
AWPA is encouraged by the statement from the Chairman of the MSG meeting, Ratu Inoke Kubuabol that "The Melanesia Spearhead Group feels for their brothers and sisters in West Papua".
The Indonesian parliament with the government plans to ratify the State Intelligence Bill draft to become the Law of Intelligence in 2011.
The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP
Minister for Foreign Affairs
PO Box 6022
House of Representatives
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
In an open letter to the leaders of the MSG, AWPA calls on the MSG to give full membership to the Melanesian people of West Papua.
Following a series of violent incidents against religious minorities, including the Ahmadiyah community, two regional administrations in Indonesia had issued local decrees banning the A
UA: 77/11 Index: ASA 21/008/2011 Indonesia Date: 16 March 2011
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
PO Box 28, Spit Junction, Sydney, Australia 2088
Ph/fax 61.2.99601698 email: bunyip@bigpond.net.au
UA: 53/11 Index: ASA 21/004/2011. Indonesia Date: 03 March 2011
West Papuan solidarity groups met in Sydney on the 26 February to discuss issues of concern in relation to West Papua including the deteriorating human rights situation.
Dear brothers and sisters
Jakarta – We welcome the plan for a Jakarta-Papua dialogue that is now being pursued by the Indonesian Government.
New York – The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations mission in Timor-Leste for another year so that it can continue to assist the fledgling nation consolida
Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to repeat its commitment to protecting the right to freedom of religion in the face of calls from radical groups to outlaw a re
Human Rights Council
Sixteenth session
Agenda Item 4
General Debate
AI Index: ASA 57/001/2011
AI Index: PRE01/060/2011
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), an international human rights NGO with 164 member leagues across the world, together with KontraS and Imparsial, two leading Indone
A coalition of groups in Timor-Leste is urging the United Nations Security Council "to take concrete, effective actions to end impunity for those who directed and committed crimes again
AHRC-STM-028-2011
8 February 2011
Excellencies, Members of the United Nations Security Council
United Nations, New York, New York, 10017 USA
AI Index: PRE01/051/2011
How many Ahmadiyah have to die at the hands of mobs before the police step in.
AHRC-STM-023-2011 - Joint Statement by the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) in Indonesia and the Asian Human Rights Commission.