Archive for December 14th, 2009
Statelessness, refugees, and human rights
(Image source: Muslimdunia.wordpress.com)
by Jennie S. Bev
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed in Article 14 that everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
In Article 15, it declared that everyone has the right to a nationality and no one should be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality, or denied the right to change it.
These two articles are underlying principles for all nations to acknowledge political and religious refugees’ rights to resettle.
Has Indonesia adhered to these principles in its handling of refugees? Read the rest of this entry »
