Where did this project begin? We-the editors of Circle of Rights-could trace it back to the workshop we held in Chiangmai, Thailand in 1996. However, we could also trace it back to nearly twenty years of personal experience working in the field of human rights and, more importantly, to the changes that have taken place in human rights activism during that time. In many respects, our entry in…
At first, human rights matter was given low concerns until it took the catalyst of World War II to propel it into the international conscience. Then the United Nations started the development of human rights through the creation of the UN Commission on Human Rights under the Economic and Social Council. From that point, many international human rights bodies and even regional systems were estab…
This publication is our attempt to circulate more widely the information related to developments in the United Nations in so far as indigenous peoples' issues are concerned. The centerpiece will be the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which was just adopted through a vote on 29 June 2006 at the First Session of the newly established UN Human Rights Council (H…
Buku panduan ini berisi informasi tentang langkah-langkah keamanan yang dapat diambil oleh pembela HAM yang berada pada situasi risiko tinggi sebagai alat untuk melindungi mereka dari peristiwa, ancaman atau serangan yang dapat terjadi dalam kehidupan pribadi mereka. Dalam buku panduan ini, langkah-langkah keamanan didefinisikan sebagai tindakan atau cara pencegahan yang dilakukan untuk menghin…
Mahkamah Konstitusi (MK) akhirnya memberikan keputusannya pada 7 Desember 2006 atas dua permohonan pengujian terhadap Undang-Undang No. 27 tahun 2004 tentang Komisi Kebenaran dan Rekonsiliasi (selanjutnya: UU KKR), namun dengan dua purusan yang berbeda. Putusan pere, yakni putusan terhadap perkara nomor 006/PUU-IV/2006, menyatakan bahwa MK mengabulkan permohonan para pemohon. MK menyatakan bahw…
On the first part, during the New Order regime, Indonesia tend to apply counter fact and counter critics diplomacy especially on common human rights issues. Indirectly Indonesia also bargained with the western world as their compensation of befriending these countries that considered communists block as their mutual enemy Therefore during New Order regime, foreign policies were not playing mech…
Lembaga Bantuan Hukum (LBH) Semarang membuat buku Laporan HAM 2006 yang berisikan tentang kondisi HAM di Jawa Tengah. Buku ini telah disampaikan melalui konferensi pers pada 10 Desember 2006.
Buku ini berisi tentang euthanasia, yakni tindakan mengakhiri hidup seseorang secara sengaja untuk menghilangkan penderitaannya dan Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM).