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Human Rights Situation in Indonesia: Implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: Alternative Report to the UN Committee against Torture

Written by: Working Group on the Advocacy against Torture (WGAT) Team In Consultation with: APT : Victoria Kuhn and Phillippe Tremblay OMCT: Mariana Duarte and Cecile Trochu Grasso Collation: x, 116p. Publisher: Jakarta: ELSAM, OMCT, 2009 ISBN: 978-2-88894-010-4 (English Version) Price: - Limited Publication This report was prepared by the Working Group on the Advocacy against Torture (WGAT) in consultation with the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the World Organization against Torture. The Working Group on the Advocacy against Torture (WGAT) was set up in 2007 as a follow up to the workshop on the engagement of NGOs with UN mechanisms working on torture, including the Committee against Torture. The Working Group comprises of 33 NGOs both at national and local level working on the advocacy for the elimination of torture. Some members focus their work on policy making process, while others concentrate on public litigation, as well as monitoring of human rights issues. Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) is the coordinator of the working group. Table of Content: Part 1. NGO alternative report to UN Committee against torture (summary) 1. Introduction 2. Defining and criminalising torture (articles 1 and 4 UNCAT) 3. The duty of the state to investigate and prosecute acts of torture and the rights of the victims to complain and receive protection (articles 5,6,7,12 and 13 UNCAT) 4. Compensation and rehabilitation of victims of torture (article 14 UNCAT) 5. Preventing torture (article 2 UNCAT) 6. The failure to review arrest procedures and interogation methods to avoid torture (article 11 UNCAT) 7. Extradition agreements (articles 3 and 8 UNCAT) 8. Conditions of detention and treatment of detainees (articles 16 UNCAT) 9. Education and dissemination of information (article 10 UNCAT) 10. Practice of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (articles 1, 4, 12, and 16 CAT) 11. Conclusions and recomendations Part 2. List of issue and concluding observations of the UN Committee against torture - List of issue to be considered during the examination of the second periodic report of Indonesia - Considerations of reports submitted by states parties under article 19 of the convention ***