RNZ – Solomon Islands has again called on Indonesia to cooperate with the United Nations Human Rights Council to allow a UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to visit its Papua region.
The call was made by a Solomons official Barrett Salato at the Human Rights Council Meeting in Geneva.
Mr Salato said there was a worrying trend by member states resisting human rights scrutiny by the Council.
He said some large democracies professed to uphold universal human rights values but evaded scrutiny of their domestic practices by claiming non-interference in their sovereign affairs.
Mr Salato said Solomon Islands had consistently raised its concerns about human rights violations in West Papua and called for independent investigations of the reports.
Papua Merdeka News 
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