Tag: Human rights
Hong Kong leader pressed to end police brutality against protesters
Catholic leaders join international figures urging Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to establish independent inquiry into police conduct
Arrests made over ransacking of church in India’s West Bengal
Three supporters of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party have been arrested over the attack on a protestant church
Filipinos welcome 2020 ‘with hopes rather than with fears’
A group of rights advocates calls for sharing of hope and overcoming fear through a collective response to injustice
Mass separation of children from families in China’s Xinjiang
Communist state policy aimed at ‘indoctrinating’ Uyghur and Kazakh children
Death keeps its sting in the court of Malaysian public opinion
Govt faces a struggle to repeal capital punishment, despite its increasing unpopularity for some crimes
India celebrates New Year’s Eve with protests against citizenship law
Many Indians fear new law will discriminate against minority Muslims and chip away at India's secular constitution
The scourge of enforced disappearances
Asia submitted the highest number of cases of enforced disappearance to the United Nations in the last decade.
Tesco suspends Chinese supplier after suspected prisoner message in Christmas card
Message reportedly found in card made for British retail giant
‘Proximate Justice’: When hope and history rhyme
There is comfort in the idea of pursuing true justice, which can only be fulfilled by God
The most beautiful of Christmas gifts
Reunifications in Timor-Leste and El Salvador are the most beautiful Christmas gifts to the desaparecidos and their families
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