Indonesian appointed UN rights expert

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