Tag: Human rights
China restricts activists’ social media ahead of Olympics
For China's ever-dwindling community of activists, the imminent arrival of the world's best athletes has triggered a familiar clampdown
Myanmar junta threatens pot-banging protesters with treason
Almost a year on the junta is struggling to break resistance to its rule, with "People's Defence Forces" clashing regularly with its troops
Chinese Christian group anxiously awaits asylum decision on South Korean island
60 members of the Shenzhen Mayflower Church fled to Jeju in 2019 to escape anti-religious propaganda
Aid to the Church in Need calls for ‘Day of Prayer...
The Church in Myanmar is faced with a task with which it is sadly familiar, that is to attend to the increasingly large number of displaced people
Church in India urged to reinstate nun who claimed to have...
The women “stand in complete solidarity with the victim/survivor nun who broke the silence against continuous abuse and exploitation"
Philippine bishop calls for release of elderly prisoner, son
The bishop said he is still holding on to hope that the country’s justice system “works and cares for those who have less in life”
Tibetan online religious groups banned in China’s Qinghai province
The policy to restrict religious activity online in Qinghai follows campaigns forcing the expulsion of young monks from their monasteries
Myanmar junta forces ransack parish church, clergy house
The villagers said the parish priest and nuns were able to escape the attack with several parishioners
Rights groups, victims call UN to ban Bangladesh paramilitary force
Rights groups say the RAB enforced disappearances of hundreds of people, including many opposition activists and leaders
35 years after massacre of Filipino farmers, struggle for agrarian reform...
Every time poor farmers attempt to pursue their claims for land reform, they are attacked by state security forces and goons
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