Building Human Rights Friendly Regions
A number of regional administrations are striving hard to make human rights the basis of their policies. They shared the ups and downs of their experiences at the 2019 Human Rights Festival, November 19-21.
Purwani Diyah Prabandari
December 3, 2019
SOMETHING was different at the Human Rights (HAM) Festival of 2019 from the previous events. At the opening of the festival organized in the office of the Regent of Jember, East Java, on November 19, there was an additional graduation ceremony for new village heads who had passed a human rights training course. They formed a fairly big group of 161 people, although only 10 of them—5 men and 5 women—went up to the stage for the symboli
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