Tag: human rights
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Uproar over terror charge laid against Filipino activists
MANILA (UCAN): Rights activists and environmentalists have expressed dismay when two Filipino activists, Fritz Jay…
Passage of Rwanda deportation law deplored
OXFORD (OSV News): The Catholic Church in Britain condemned a government-backed law allowing migrants in…
Rene Saguisag, Philippine human rights champion, dies at 84
MANILA (Agencies): Rene Saguisag, a former Philippine senator, top human rights lawyer and advocate of…
Interreligious dialogue needed to encourage peace in Africa, experts say
VATICAN (CNS): “We declare that the African continent can only achieve an integral and sustainable…
Church backs Ati tribal people’s struggle
(UCAN): The Philippines Church has extended support to the Ati tribal people’s struggle to protect…
UN event calls for comprehensive effort to dismantle trafficking, integrate survivors
(OSV News): The Santa Marta Group a Catholic-inspired human rights organisation devoted to ending human…
Ukraine has ‘no choice but to defend’ itself say bishops and ambassador
NeW YORK (OSV News): Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops, led by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of…
