Tag: SW
UN report shows 402 million Asian suffer from hunger
Asia, especially the southern subregion, struggled to significantly reduce moderate and severe food insecurity between 2021 and 2022
Vatican official urges journalists to make refugees’ aspirations ‘known to the...
“As journalists, you are in a privileged position to listen to their cry and make their aspirations known to the world”
Philippine groups decry ‘terrorist’ designation of activists, IP leaders
Karapatan expressed alarm over “the increasing use of terror laws” against activists and human rights workers to suppress political dissent
Philippine dam projects threaten ‘sacred’ place of worship, devotion
Fight for environmental protection will never cease until projects that threaten a place of worship and devotion are scrapped and abandoned
Bishop David reelected CBCP president
He appealed for “a more serious action” against the climate crisis, and for church institutions “to be one in declaring a state of emergency”
Global platform launched to address rural bombings
The groups decried the increased aerial bombing in countries such as Pakistan, Myanmar, the Philippines, West Papua, Palestine, and India
Pope Francis to visit Fatima to pray for peace in Ukraine
The itinerary was added to the papal pilgrimage to Portugal for the World Youth Day celebration in Lisbon on August 5
Missionaries in Philippines still in crosshairs of red-tagging
Red-tagging is a practice by authorities in the Philippines that associates people and groups critical of the government with communists
Philippine groups urge authorities to repeal anti-terror law
Rementilla and Rubia are the 10th and 11th victims of the State’s “legal offensive” against political dissent in the Southern Tagalog region
Anti-mining group urges authorities to review reclamation projects in Manila Bay
There is a link between seabed quarrying and the reclamation projects that "violate regulatory laws as well as negatively impact communities”