Joint Letter on Indonesia’s Candidacy for Election to the UN Human Rights Council
19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
Joint open letter 19 September 2023
Indonesia is seeking to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the next two years. The elections for the UN Human Rights Council for the 2024 – 2026 period will be held in October 2023. Indonesia is re-applying for membership.
The Human Rights Council is the key UN intergovernmental body responsible for human rights, charged with overseeing, promoting and protecting human rights around the world. It needs human rights compliant states to be a credible body.
A member of the Council should be a worldwide role model for human rights. Given the shrinking space for civil society and restrictions to freedom of expression, the lack of ratification of international human rights treaties and action on Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, and the continuing situation in West Papua, there’s ample reason to doubt that this is the case.
We, as a civil society coalition, are pushing for better implementation of human rights in Indonesia to reflect its commitment to them in its candidacy as a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
Read the joint open letter below.
This is a joint campaign of Watch Indonesia!, with Amnesty International, Franciscans International, Forum-Asia, World Council of Churches, Human Rights Monitor, VIVAT International, Geneva for Human Rights – Global Training, Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, TAPOL, SKPKC Fransiskan Papua, Imparsial, Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI), Papua Partners and SOWP.
