Our Stakeholder report to Indonesia’s Universal Periodic Review, led by Dr. Amna Nazir, makes specific recommendations to the government regarding the right to life and capital punishment.
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Consultancy background
This Stakeholder Report focuses upon capital punishment and makes recommendations to the Government of Indonesia on this key issue, implementation of which would also see Indonesia moving towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 which aims for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all and effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
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On 23rd August 2022, the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights published its Stakeholder Summary Report for Indonesia, which cited the Stakeholder Report submitted by UPR Project at BCU:
“UPR Project at BCU recommended that Indonesia ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty.” (Para 20)
“UPR Project at BCU noted that the death penalty was mandatory for a range of offences, including non-violent drug offences which accounted for the large majority of death sentences each year.” (Para 33)
(Outcome of the review yet to be published)
About the UPR Project at BCU
The Centre for Human Rights (CHR) has been engaging with the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) since 2016. Under the auspice of the Human Rights Council, the UPR is an intergovernmental process providing a review of the human rights record of all Member States.
Through the UPR Project at BCU, the CHR we engage with the UPR through taking part in the UPR Pre-sessions, providing capacity building for UPR stakeholders and National Human Rights Institutions, and the filing of stakeholder reports in selected sessions. The UPR Project is designed to help meet the challenges facing the safeguarding of human rights around the world, and to help ensure that UPR recommendations are translated into domestic legal change in member state parliaments.
We fully support the UPR ethos of encouraging the sharing of best practice globally to protect everyone's human rights. The UPR Project at BCU engages with the UPR regularly as a stakeholder, having submitted numerous reports and been cited by the OHCHR.