Tag: Human rights

Delayed justice deepens trauma for child abuse victims; calls grow for children's courts and urgent judicial reforms in Philippines

As a proud trans man practicing his priesthood with the IFI, he witnessed the church’s affirming stance on gender equality

Pope Leo XIV condemns the use of hunger as a weapon of war and expenditures on arms production instead of eradicating poverty

A Filipino fishers’ group has rejected a U.S. proposal to build an arms depot in Subic, citing threats to sovereignty and livelihood

Vatican urges solidarity with seafarers, calling them “pilgrims of hope” in Sea Sunday message amid rising abandonment cases

“We reject the proposals for renewed calls for the return [of the] death penalty especially in calls to protect people from illegal drugs"

Semirara’s tax relief sparks calls to repeal a decades-old coal law seen as undermining climate and fiscal policy

AI-powered software can block livestreamed child sexual abuse; advocates push for mandatory installation to protect vulnerable minors.

Suicide bombers kill 30 during evening Mass at Damascus church, marking Syria’s deadliest attack on Christians in years

The UN expert also said that Cumpio’s case shows that the Philippine justice system “almost becomes a system for harassing.”