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Over 60 rights groups call on UN body to ensure Philippine...

At least 62 human rights and civil society groups express their “grave concern" over "serious human rights violations” in the Philippines

China’s offer of coronavirus tests for all in Hong Kong meets...

Move comes as many of the city’s 7.5 million residents see Beijing reining in their freedoms

UN rights expert renews call for sanctions on Philippine officials over...

Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, said the international community “must act now” to stop the killings

Facebook shares data on Myanmar with United Nations investigators

Myanmar is facing charges of genocide over a 2017 military crackdown on the Rohingya

Justice remains elusive for victims of India’s Odisha massacre in 2008

It was the largest organized communal attacks on Christians in the history of India in the past three centuries

Philippine Catholic religious superiors file petition against anti-terrorism law

The AMRSP asked the court to declare the new law “unconstitutional” because it “infringes on the free religious expression of the Church”

Undoing injustice and helping indigenous communities

The sacred rights of indigenous people that have occupied and peopled the Philippine lands and forests are trampled upon and ignored.

Myanmar activist faces court for banner protesting internet shutdown

Charge against free-speech activist and poet is latest example of Myanmar govt’s intolerance of critical speech, rights group says

Hospitals in China’s Xinjiang region allegedly forced to abort Uyghur babies

Newborns were also killed after inducing labor, says obstetrician who worked in several Xinjiang hospitals

Catholic bishop lauds Philippine court decision upholding human rights in drug...

Bishop Pablo Virgilio David said it’s about time the nation hears from the magistrates what the people have been saying “with muffled voices”

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