Tag: Human rights
Philippine court acquits priests, activists of sedition charges
The court ruled that the prosecution had failed to establish their guilt in the conspiracy to commit sedition case
Sri Lanka Catholics seek foreign probe into Easter bombings
Islamist extremists targeted churches and hotels in the 2019 suicide bomb attacks against Christian worshippers and foreign travelers
Progressive groups air concerns on CBCP’s joining NTF-ELCAC
“Church’s prophetic voice and mission will be better heard and appreciated outside the NTF-ELCAC, among the ranks of our oppressed and suffering people”
Catholic bishops must reevaluate decision to join human rights violators
Becoming part of this machinery, the Commission can be made accountable for the NTF-ELCAC's acts of violence and human rights violations.
CBCP head explains issue on gov’t’s anti-communist task force
David said the CBCP Permanent Council will tackle if the Commission could engage NTF-ELCAC “without having to join its ExeCom as a member”
In the Philippines, justice remains elusive for victims of enforced disappearances
Despite the enactment of the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012, “enforced disappearances have not stopped”
Bishop laments ‘systematic’ police abuses
The bishop is a vocal critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless war on drugs and a known defender of its victims
Pope Francis: ‘We cannot be indifferent’ to people caught in drug...
“Behind every addiction, there are concrete experiences, stories of loneliness, inequality, exclusion, lack of integration”
New travel guidelines violate rights, OFWs say
IACAT explained that it has revised the departure protocols to “combat the grave menace of human trafficking".
Groups defend artist from QCPD’s ‘harassment suit’
CAP said the lawsuit is an attack on freedom of expression and the right of the people to redress and expression of grievance
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