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Minister Marsudi highlights three torture-prevention strategies

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi drew attention to three points to bolster prevention strategies on torture and ...

Commission to follow up on sexual violence crime bill's ratification

The National Commission on Violence Against Women lauded the House of Representatives' commitment to discuss and ...

Foreign Minister confirms 133 Indonesians departed from Ukraine

Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi reported that out of the total of 165 Indonesian citizens in Ukraine, as many as ...

Activist lauds gov't, DPR for sexual violence bill

Migrant Care lauds the government and the House of Representatives for drafting the Law on Sexual Violence Crime as a ...

Forced Marriage Article must cover lack of consent: ICJR

The forced marriage article within the sexual violence prevention bill (RUU TPKS) must specifically include lack of ...

Rights body exposes forced labour, slavery at district head's home

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) came across practices of forced labour and actions akin to slavery ...

Forced marriage, sexual slavery in sexual violence bill purview

The government has included the issues of forced marriage and sexual slavery in the Sexual Violence Prevention Bill ...

Three-month imprisonment slapped on man torturing cat in East Java

The Tulungagung district court in East Java sentenced a 23-year-old man to three months' imprisonment for torturing ...

Rights body to push for OPCAT in meeting with President

Chief of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has said he will meet President Joko Widodo soon to ...

Sexual violence cases mostly started in private scope: Official

Sexual violence cases in Indonesia, especially against women, largely constituted those occurring in the private ...

Happy Teachers' Day

A teacher has a huge influence on our lives, and without one we may not see any of the success we currently enjoy. It ...

Five prison officers probed for undue disciplinary actions

The Law and Human Rights Office in Yogyakarta has questioned five officers of the Yogyakarta narcotics prison for ...

Death penalty is worst-case scenario of discrimination against women

Death penalty on women is one of the catalysts of violence and gender-based discrimination against womankind, ...

Death penalty highest form of violence against women: Komnas Perempuan

The death penalty is the highest form of gender-based torture, discrimination, and violence against women, Chief of the ...

Opinion

The Aggravating state of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir

Nelson Mandela once said, “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”. This is ...