Tag: Human rights
Political leaders, Big Pharma betray promises of fair recovery from pandemic...
States, “alongside corporate titans,” have driven deeper global inequality “in what amounts to one of the greatest betrayals of our times”
Singapore court dismisses death sentence appeal of Malaysian national
Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state
Christians welcome with caution India’s dismissal of petition to monitor missionaries
The Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking to constitute a monitoring board to monitor the activities of Christian Missionaries in India
Philippine vice president says reimposing death penalty will not lower crime...
The vice president said data from around the world show that reimposing the death penalty will not lower crime rates considerably
Christian rights activist in China faces fabricated charges, supporters say
Li Qiaochu, a Christian and labor rights activist in China, has been imprisoned for more than a year for allegedly inciting subversion
Bangladesh closes largest private school in Rohingya camps
Bangladesh has been sheltering about 850,000 Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar since a military offensive in 2017
Conflict since coup pushes Myanmar’s displaced to nearly 900,000
The UN Humanitarian Office said that 519,900 people had been displaced by clashes since the coup, bringing the total of IDPs to 890,300
3 million Filipino families experience ‘involuntary hunger’ – survey
The presidential palace acknowledged that the government needs to do “much more” to protect citizens from hunger and poverty
Officials tell Lao Christians to remove videos of attack by authorities,...
Christians in Laos have faced a string of similar assaults and legal moves against them
Church people ‘bravely’ provide assistance to victims of junta abuses in...
The Fortify Rights report noted that Myanmar’s military regime committed widespread and systematic crimes against humanity
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