Tag: human rights
Police brutality rife in Philippines rights watchdog says
MANILA (UCAN): “Police brutality is common in the Philippines, where police officers commit serious abuses…
Renewed calls for Myanmar to end death penalty
YANGON (UCAN): The Myanmar junta’s recent handing down of the death sentence on university students…
Malaysia under fire for deporting asylum seekers from Myanmar
KUALA LUMPUR (UCAN): International rights groups have demanded Malaysian authorities stop the forced repatriation of…
Outrage at killing of father and son in the Philippines
MANILA (UCAN): “The killing of Jomarie Santillan and his nine-year-old boy has once again triggered…
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…
