Tag: Human rights
Indian coast guard rescues 81 Rohingya on drifting boat, 8 dead,...
After four days at sea the boat's engine failed, and those on board had run out of food and water
Radio Veritas’ role in ouster of Philippine dictator remembered 35 years...
Radio Veritas had a ‘crucial role in using truth to depose an oppressive and corrupt regime and restore Filipino faith in the electoral process’
Christian couple on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan have appeal...
It has been six years since their appeal was first launched
Supporters of Myanmar coup attack rivals in Yangon
Some military supporters were photographed with clubs and knives, others threw stones and fired catapults
Baseless imprisonments surge in China’s Xinjiang, rights group says
Formal prosecutions are distinct from those arbitrarily detained in unlawful 'political education' facilities
North Korea enslaving political prisoners to fund weapons program, report says
UN estimates up to 200,000 people are held in a vast network of gulags run by Stasi-like secret police
Watch: Life remains restrictive for Singapore’s migrant workers
It’s been one year since new coronavirus hit foreign worker dormitories in the city, forcing a lockdown
Sri Lanka’s bishops call for release of Easter terror attack inquiry
‘We have a lot of doubts about this whole process, the whole thing is getting delayed,’ says head of the bishops’ conference
Defying court order, Malaysia deports more than 1,000 Myanmar nationals
The country does not formally recognize refugees, treating them as undocumented migrants
Increase in ‘online hostility’ against Christians in China’s Hebei, rights group...
The province has a long history of govt persecution targeting Christians, particularly Catholics