Kovenan HAM Internasional: Pandangan Umum mengenai Signifikasi dan Perkembangan

Abstract

Indonesia has just  ratified the two most important international human  rights covenants, namely, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The implications of these ratifications are enormous, either for the government and other state's institutions  or for the victims of human  rights violation as well as human  rights defenders. The two Covenants could becomepart of the effort of legal reform to improve human  rights condition in Indonesia.  The two Covenants are related with the history of the world organization, namely, the United Nations, in developing the what so called the international  law, in this regard the interna• tional human  rights law. The human  rights law was developed as mechanisms, either Charter-based or Treaty-based. The main purposes of the Indonesian  are to maintain peace and prevent violence.