Febrian Ruddyard News Today

Indonesia welcomes the adoption of the International Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, and Associated Traditional Knowledge by WIPO.

Indonesia welcomes the agreement on the Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge at the World Intellectual ...

Human Rights Council Elects Omar Zniber of Morocco to serve as its President for 2024

Since late 2019, the WTO does not have a functioning appelate body crisis after the US blocked appointment of its members.

Your Excellency, Sabri Bachtobji, Ambassador of Tunisia and Chair of this Intergovernmental Group of Experts, Your Excellency, Kemvichet Long, Ambassador of Cambodia and Vice-Chair-cum-Rapporteur, Your Excellency, Febrian Ruddyard, Ambassador of Indonesia, Your Excellency, Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill, Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology, Shamika Sirimanne, Director of Digital Technology and Logistics at UNCTAD, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen,

When my Human Rights Watch colleagues visited Indonesia in 2019, they sought meetings with government officials and opinion leaders to encourage them to speak up against the discrimination and abuses suffered by Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, China. They encountered a wall of silence. Now this disregard for the Uyghurs has gone from bad to worse.

Indonesia said it rejected a proposal to debate China's alleged human rights abuses as it seeks to avoid the "politicization" of the Human Rights Council.

Indonesia was among 19 nations that rejected a motion against China at the United Nations to hold a debate on alleged rights abuses against Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, in a blow to largely Western attempts to antagonise Beijing internationally.

World’s largest Muslim-majority country voted against discussing report on Chinas policies in Xinjiang.

UN Human Rights Council votes against holding a debate on alleged widespread abuses in China's Xinjiang region after intense lobbying by Beijing; Argentina abstains from ballot.