Tag: human rights
From victim to human rights defender
Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso, UCAN In February 2015, I was on a mission to Pakistan to…
Changes to Indonesian criminal code ‘put key freedoms at risk’
JAKARTA (UCAN): Twenty-two Asian and global civil society organisations expressed concerns that proposed amendments to…
The antidote to the escalation of evil is remembrance
By Jose Mario Bautista Maximiano The world is confronted with an “escalation of evil,” Pope…
Rights groups pull no punches over Indonesian prisons
JAKARTA (UCAN): “We must acknowledge honestly that torture has become part of a culture in…
Detained priest freed by Myanmar military
PATHEIN (Radio Veritas Asia): Father Richard Nay Zaw Aung, from the Diocese of Pathein, Myanmar,…
Philippine rights activist freed
MANILA (UCAN): Maria Natividad Castro, a human rights activist and doctor, walked free from detention…
Defending and protecting human rights
W`hen we look around the world today, we see that the people of many countries…
