Human Rights Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Butt ◽  
Tim Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Human Rights Abuse ◽  
National Human ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
National Human Rights Commissions

This chapter focuses on legal protections for human rights in Indonesia, many of which developed after the fall of Soeharto in response to abuses committed during his rule. It begins with an account of international human rights instruments ratified in Indonesia, before providing an overview of domestic Indonesian regulation, and national human rights commissions: Komnas HAM, the Child Protection Commission, and the National Commission on Violence Against Women (KOMNAS Perempuan). It also deals with the largely ineffectual permanent and ad hoc human rights courts and the now-defunct Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The chapter concludes with case studies of legal responses to controversial cases of human rights abuse, including East Timor, Tanjung Priok, Trisakti, and the two Semanggi incidents.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI LEMBAGA NEGARA DALAM PENEGAKAN HAK ASASI MANUSIA DI INDONESIA

FIAT JUSTISIA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amin Putra
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
The Right

In the framework of the protection and enforcement of Human Rights by state institutions among implemented by: National Commission on Human Rights, Indonesian Child Protection Commission, National Commission for Women, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its development, it was disbanded because it does not correspond to the actual functions and duties so it does not give justice to the community. Besides carried out by the Commission, established by the State, protection and enforcement of Human Rights today is mostly done by the judiciary, especially after the reform. Among them are: the Specific Human Rights court, severe Human Rights court and the Constitutional Court who has the authority to test Legislations on the Constitution 1945. In the development, the Constitutional Court more precisely to the protection and enforcement of Human Rights to the citizens with the many rulings on the legislation is unconstitutional, and the Constitutional Court's decision was a strategic value and is able to uphold Human Rights for citizens. The essence of the protection and enforcement of Human Rights greatly influenced the position of the judge in deciding the case, so the judge has a role to uphold the independence and impartiality both as an institution and as individuals. Besides other factor is their right to receive legal aid, the pattern of justice has shown that the right to get a legal assistance is an attempt for equality in law as part of the fulfillment of Human Rights.Keywords: State Institutions, Human Rights, Enforcement

scholarly journals Impunitas Dan Penerapan Keadilan Transisi: Suatu Dilema Penyelesaian Kasus Pelanggaran HAM Berat di Masa Lalu

PETITUM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
Moh Fadhil
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
National Human

This research aims to examine efforts to fulfill transitional justice through its four windows. The method used is normative legal research with conceptual and historical approaches. The results showed that the problem of impunity inhibited in all transitional justice windows, starting from the truth window in the absence of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the justice window in the form of a justice mechanism that caused friction between the National Human Rights Commission and the Attorney General's Office, the reparation window which until now only Aceh and Palu have real programs for victims and survivors, institutional reform windows that have not reduced the total security approach and the absence of vetting mechanisms. Therefore, a policy reformulation process is needed in the Human Rights Court Law to strengthen the position of the NHRC and immediately discuss the TRC Bill, accelerate reparations and institutional reform programs   Penelitan ini bertujuan untuk menelaah upaya pemenuhan keadilan transisi melalui empat jendela. Metode yang digunakan adalah penelitian hukum normatif dengan pendekatan konseptual dan pendekatan sejarah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa problem impunitas menghambat di semua jendela keadilan transisi, mulai dari jendela kebenaran berupa ketiadaan KKR, jendela keadilan berupa mekanisme peradilan yang menimbulkan friksi antara Komnas HAM dengan Kejaksaan Agung, jendela reparasi yang hingga saat ini baru Aceh dan Palu yang memiliki program yang nyata bagi para korban dan penyintas dan jendela reformasi institusi yang belum mereduksi total pendekatan keamanan serta ketiadaan mekanisme seleksi terhadap rekam jejak anggota militer. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan proses reformulasi kebijakan pada UU Pengadilan HAM dan segera membahas RUU KKR, percepatan program reparasi dan reformasi institusi.

scholarly journals Apartheid Acting Out: Trauma, Confession and the Melancholy of Theatre in Yaël Farber's He Left Quietly

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
ED CHARLTON
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Human Rights Abuse ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Democratic Elections

In 1984, Duma Kumalo was sentenced to death under the apartheid law of common purpose. He was only spared by the transitional negotiations that led to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. However, his suffering did not end with his release. Nor did his appearance alongside many other victims of human rights abuse at the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission provide any measure of therapeutic relief. Instead, he continued to confess, as part of his performance in Yaël Farber's He Left Quietly (2002), to a trauma so overwhelming as to undo, it seems, any such a claim to healing. It has now been ten years since Kumalo passed away and this article returns to Farber's play in order to examine the theatrical form this melancholy takes, the challenge it poses to confessional orthodoxy and the ethical ends towards which such a melancholy performance might potentially drive, even still.

scholarly journals Akibat Hukum Berlakunya Putusan MK Nomor 18/PUU/V/2007 Terhadap Usulan DPR Dalam Pembentukan Pengadilan Ham Ad Hoc

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Xavier Nugraha ◽  
Maulia Madina ◽  
Ulfa Septian Dika
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
National Human ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Year 2000

<div><p>Artikel ini merupakan kajian konseptual terkait usulan DPR sebagai langkah awal dalam pembentukan Pengadilan HAM <em>Ad Hoc</em>. Dalam penjelasan Pasal 43 ayat (2) Undang-Undang Nomor 26 Tahun 2000 Tentang Pengadilan Hak Asasi Manusia, dijelaskan bahwa usulan DPR tersebut didasarkan pada dugaan telah terjadinya pelanggaran HAM  berat yang <em>locus</em> dan <em>tempus delicti</em>nya terjadi sebelum diundangkannya Undang-Undang Pengadilan Hak Asasi Manusia. Frasa dugaan dalam penjelasan tersebut menimbulkan problematika karena melakukan dugaan tersebut adalah fungsi penyelidikan sesuai Pasal 1 angka 5  Undang-Undang Nomor 26 Tahun 2000. DPR seolah menjalankan fungsi untuk melakukan penyelidikan dalam yang seharusnya merupakan  kewenangan Komnas HAM sesuai Pasal 18 Undang-Undang Nomor 26 Tahun 2000. Hal ini tumpang tindih kewenangan DPR dan Komnas HAM. Pasca Putusan MK Nomor 18/PUU/V/2007, DPR wajib untuk mengajukan usulan pengadilan HAM <em>Ad Hoc</em> , setalah adanya dugaan pelanggaran HAM berat sebelum diundangkannya Undang-Undang Pengadilan Hak Asasi Manusia oleh Komnas HAM</p><em> This article is a conceptual study related to the House of Representatives proposal as an initial step in the establishment of the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court. In the explanation of Article 43 paragraph (2) of Law Number 26 Year 2000 concerning the Human Rights Court, it was explained that the House of Representatives proposal was based on the alleged occurrence of gross human rights violations that had locus and temporal delays before the promulgation of the Human Rights Court Law. The alleged phrase in the explanation raises a problem because making such an assumption is a function of investigation in accordance with Article 1 number 5 of Act Number 26 of 2000. The House of Representatives seems to carry out a function to conduct investigations which should be the authority of the National Human Rights Commission in accordance with Article 18 of Law Number 26 Year 2000. This authoriy  overlaps the authority of the DPR and the National Human Rights Commission. After the Constitutional Court Decision Number 18 / PUU / V / 2007, the House of Representatives was obliged to submit an Ad Hoc Human Rights court proposal, following the alleged gross human rights violations before the promulgation of the Human Rights Court Law by the National Commission of Human Rights</em></div>

Using African Truth and Reconciliation Commission documentation for truth telling and reconciliation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Proscovia Svärd
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commissions ◽  
Reconciliation Process

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are established to document violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in post-conflict societies. The intent is to excavate the truth to avoid political speculations and create an understanding of the nature of the conflict. The documentation hence results in a common narrative which aims to facilitate reconciliation to avoid regression to conflict. TRCs therefore do a tremendous job and create compound documentation that includes written statements, interviews, live public testimonies of witnesses and they also publish final reports based on the accumulated materials. At the end of their mission, TRCs recommend the optimal use of their documentation since it is of paramount importance to the reconciliation process. Despite this ambition, the TRCs’ documentation is often politicized and out of reach for the victims and the post-conflict societies at large. The TRCs’ documentation is instead poorly diffused into the post conflict societies and their findings are not effectively disseminated and used.

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights under the 2010 Constitutional Dispensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Bonolo Ramadi Dinokopila ◽  
Rhoda Igweta Murangiri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
National Human ◽  
The Status ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights

This article examines the transformation of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and discusses the implications of such transformation on the promotion and protection of human rights in Kenya. The article is an exposition of the powers of the Commission and their importance to the realisation of the Bill of Rights under the 2010 Kenyan Constitution. This is done from a normative and institutional perspective with particular emphasis on the extent to which the UN Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles, 1993) have been complied with. The article highlights the role of national human rights commissions in transformative and/or transitional justice in post-conflict Kenya. It also explores the possible complementary relationship(s) between the KNCHR and other Article 59 Commissions for the better enforcement of the bill of rights.

Any Role for Human Rights in the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Addressing Forced Assimilation?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Hans Morten Haugen
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The North ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Right

Abstract Norway’s policies regarding Sámi and most national minorities in an historic perspective can be characterized as forced assimilation; except for Jews and Roma, where the historic policy can be termed exclusion. The Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc) is intended to be a broad-based process, resulting in a report to the Norwegian Parliament in 2022. After identifying various explanations for the relatively strong standing of the (North) Sámi domestically and in international forums, the article identifies various ways that human rights will be important for the trc’s work and final report: (i) self-determination; (ii) participation in political life; (iii) participation in cultural life; (iv) family life; (v) private life; and (vi) human dignity. Some of these rights are relatively wide, but all give relevant guidance to the trc’s work. The right to private life did not prevent the Norwegian Parliament’s temporary law to enable the trc’s access to archives

Truth-Seeking at a Distance

2014 ◽  
pp. 72-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Reconciliation Process

The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (LTRC) was established by the Liberian government in 2005 to “promote national peace, security, unity, and reconciliation.” The LTRC thought it essential to allow Liberians who had fled the conflict to participate in the truth and reconciliation process. As a result, it partnered with a US-based non-governmental organization, The Advocates for Human Rights, to conduct the Diaspora Project. This chapter provides an overview of the Diaspora Project, which enabled Liberians on three continents to give statements to the LTRC. Given the wide dispersion of the Liberian diaspora, the author of this chapter demonstrates how information communication technologies were essential in the success of the Diaspora Project.

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