Legislation to implement CAVR and CTF recommendations

Watch Indonesia! – For Democracy, Human Rights and Environment in Indonesia and East Timor

Your Excellency
Fernando Lasama de Araujo
President
National Parliament
Timor-Leste

Berlin, 24. January 2012

Your Excellency

Over twenty years ago, it was human rights abuses in Timor-Leste that led to the establishment of Watch Indonesia! in Germany in reaction to the Santa Cruz massacre. Since then, we have actively followed the human rights situation in the country, campaigned together with our friends in Timor-Leste ... read more

Posted on 02:04 AM in Human Rights, East Timor, Publications, Transitional Justice, Watch's Open Letters
Tags: Indonesia, human rights, East Timor, parliament, transitional justice, United Nations, crimes against humanity

International Human Rights Day:

Churches and Human Rights Organisations express concern about human rights in Papua

(Find a layoutet version of this letter here)

 

His Excellency
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
The President of Indonesia
Jl. Veteran No. 16
Jakarta Pusat
INDONESIA

Wuppertal, 10 December 2011

Dear President Yudhoyono,

In light of the International Human Rights Day, we, the undersigned organizations from Europe, Asia and Australia with partnership relations to church and development organizations in Papua and West Papua, would like to express our concern about the human rights situation in the Indonesian Provinces of Papua and ... read more

Posted on 07:36 PM in Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Papua, Publications, security sector
Tags: Indonesia, justice, human rights, Papua, security sector

(Deutsch) Holzeinschlag in Deutschland und Schutz der Tropenwälder

Sorry, this entry is not available in English.
German version

Posted on 06:57 PM in Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Open Letters, Pulp & Paper, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, plantations, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

Timor Leste Groups write UN Security Council on Justice with international support

February 02, 2010

Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal Secretariat: Fongtil, Caicoli, Dili, Timor-Leste e-mail: lanarra.del@gmail.com Excellencies, Members of the United Nations Security Council United Nations, New York, New York, 10017 USA Hon. Ameerah Haq Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Timor-Leste Dear Members of the United Nations Security Council,

After 10 years in a climate of independence, we Timorese people continue to endure long suffering related to the cases of serious crimes that were ... read more

Posted on 10:21 AM in Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Human Rights, Indonesia, East Timor, Publications, Transitional Justice
Tags: Indonesia, international tribunal, justice, conflict 1975 - 1999, crisis 2006, military, East Timor, impunity, criminal prosecution, transitional justice, United Nations, crimes against humanity

Palm Oil Monocultures Will Never be Sustainable

November 02, 2009

Open Letter to RSPO and WWF

One year ago, the “International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil” was published, signed by over 250 organisations worldwide (http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/news.php?id=1070). Since then, the RSPO has continued to certify palm oil produced by companies which are directly responsible for violating the rights of local communities, for the ongoing destruction of rainforests and peatlands and other abuses against people, the environment ... read more

Posted on 03:36 PM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), Indonesia, palm oil, rain forest destruction, environment and climate, economy and business, certification

Letter to UN Security Council on Justice and Accountability for Serious Crimes Committed in Timor-Leste

20 October 2009

http://www.etan.org/news/2009/10unsc.htm

The following letter to the UN Security Council was signed by 65 individuals, representing nearly 50 organizations worldwide. President Security Council The United Nations 1 United Nations Plaza New York, New York 10017 Your Excellency, We have long been concerned with the justice and accountability for human rights and war crimes committed in Timor-Leste. As you meet this week to discuss the situation in Timor-Leste, we remind you that United Nations — and more specifically Security Council ... read more

Posted on 03:49 PM in Joint Open Letters, East Timor, Publications, Transitional Justice
Tags: violence, Indonesia, human rights, militias, East Timor, referendum 1999, impunity, criminal prosecution, transitional justice, United Nations, reconciliation, truth commission

Call for the immediate release of WALHI’s activists

14th May, 2009

To the Chief of Police Forces of the Republic of Indonesia (Kapolri)General Bambang Hendraso Danuri Jl.Trinojoyo No.3 Kebayoran Baru – Jakarta Selatan Fax: +62-(21)-3925527 General Bambang Hendraso Danuri,

Watch Indonesia! is a Human Rights organization based in Berlin, Germany. We have received information that the police in Manado has arrested Berry Nahdian Furqon (Director of WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia) and Erwin Usman (Head of WALHI’s Regional Department ). The aforementioned Indonesian citizens were arrested during a ... read more

Posted on 12:08 PM in Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch's Open Letters
Tags: mining, Indonesia, Police, protest action, Freedom of Expression, environment and climate

Letter to UN Security Council on Justice and Accountability

International Federation for East Timor (IFET), February 18, 2009

President
Security Council
The United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017

February 18, 2009

Your Excellency

We are writing on behalf of organizations long concerned with the justice process in Timor-Leste.

As you meet this week to discuss renewing the UN mission in Timor-Leste, we urge you to look at the unfulfilled UN pledges concerning human rights and accountability for serious human rights crimes committed in Timor-Leste between 1975 ... read more

Posted on 01:54 AM in Joint Open Letters, Justice, Human Rights, Human Rights, Indonesia, East Timor, Politics & Democracy, Publications, Security Sector, Transitional Justice
Tags: Indonesia, international tribunal, José Ramos-Horta, justice, crisis 2006, human rights, East Timor, criminal prosecution, transitional justice, United Nations, crimes against humanity, dealing with the past, reconciliation, truth commission, Xanana Gusmão

Governments of eight producer countries state that sustainability of agrofuels cannot be guaranteed

01 December 2008

Open Letter to MEPs:

Since EU target is conditional on sustainability, EU should drop the target

On 6th November, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malawi, Mozambique and Sierra Leone wrote an Open Letter to The Council, Parliament and Commission of the European Communities, in which they made it clear that they strongly object to proposed sustainability standards for agrofuels. Those eight countries are amongst the main countries from which the EU is likely ... read more

Posted on 08:25 AM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), European Union (EU), Indonesia, human rights, rain forest destruction, environment and climate

International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

In defence of Human Rights, Food Sovereignty, Biodiversity and Climate Justice

Ironically, on 16 October 2008, World Food and Food Sovereignty Day, a meeting will start in Cartagena (Colombia) to promote monoculture oil palm plantations, that are precisely the cause of so many violations of the Right to Food and contrary to food sovereignty insofar as they undermine the peoples’ right to produce their own food according to their territorial conditions and their food culture.

The First ... read more

Posted on 04:58 PM in Agro Fuels, Joint Open Letters, Human Rights, Indonesia, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: Indonesia, human rights, palm oil, environment and climate