Indonesian appointed UN rights expert

GENEVA: The chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Makarim Wibisono, appointed fellow Indonesian Rudi Muhammad Rizki as the commission's independent expert on human rights and international solidarity.

Rizki, a noted human rights lecturer in Indonesia who has served as an ad hoc judge at the Indonesian Human Rights Court, will be asked to prepare a draft declaration on the public's right to international solidarity.

He also will play a role in the commission's human rights fact-finding efforts. -- JP