The Concepts of "Unwilling" and "Unable" in Gross Human Rights Violations in Indonesia

Tampubolon, Manotar (2024) The Concepts of "Unwilling" and "Unable" in Gross Human Rights Violations in Indonesia. In: The City College of New York’s (CCNY) Third Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference program, April 17-19, 2024, CCNY’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies, located at 25 Broadway, 7th floor, in New York City’s Financial District.

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Abstract

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrated its 75th birthday on December 10, 2023. Since that statement of principles following the mass atrocities of WWII, the world has witnessed the spread of human rights discourse, norms, law, and institutions at both the domestic and international levels. Eleanor Roosevelt’s prediction that “a curious grapevine” would spread the ideas articulated in that 1948 General Assembly document seems to have come to fruition. Nevertheless, the aspirations of the Declaration remain far from fulfilled, as grave violations of rights continue to be perpetrated around the globe, often with impunity. Economic inequality, racism, sexism, and multiple refugee crises have engendered and exacerbated the rise of political extremism. Addressing such issues, as well as many others, the Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference aims to explore the contested legacy of human rights in increasingly uncertain times. It seeks to foster dialogue and scholarship from a wide range of perspectives. Some conference presenters are scholars and activists who continue to view the human rights project as a moral and ethical challenge to power; others see it as an enabler of political and economic domination. The Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Conference participants seek to reassess the origins, foundations, and contemporary forms of human rights discourse, ideas, and practice today, seventy-five years on.

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