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More than 125 million people worldwide seeking protection
When international lawyer Gillian Triggs stepped up to the lectern to deliver the inaugural Kildare Ministries Crossing New Seas Oration, she brought with her decades of experience in human rights law and refugee protection. Source: Melbourne Catholic.
Indonesia’s human rights minister proposes religious freedom law
Indonesia’s Catholic human rights minister has proposed enacting a religious freedom law to end discrimination against minority groups in the Muslim-majority nation. Source: UCA News.
Vatican reiterates opposition to death penalty
Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher yesterday addressed three different Human Rights Council sessions focusing on the death penalty, global debt justice, and the broader challenges facing human rights. Source: Vatican News.
Human rights report lashes Australia over asylum seekers, youth justice
Australia’s “diabolical” treatment of asylum seekers and youth crime has worsened, a global human rights advocacy body has warned. Source: The Guardian.
Millions of people deprived of basic rights due to war: Pope
As the United Nations marked Human Rights Day yesterday, Pope Francis reminded world leaders that our “human rights to life and peace are essential conditions for the exercise of all other rights”. Source: Vatican News.
Former Labor senator named new Anti-Slavery Commissioner
The Australian Catholic Anti-slavery Network has welcomed the historic appointment of Chris Evans as Australia’s first national Anti-Slavery Commissioner.
Commonwealth leaders agree on ‘reparatory justice’ for slavery
Commonwealth leaders have agreed “the time has come” for a conversation about making amends for slavery. Source: ABC News.
ACRATH lobbies federal MPs for more action on modern slavery
Staff and members of Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans are at Parliament House in the ACT this week to discuss modern slavery and human trafficking with MPs.
Missing boy spurs Church groups to fight trafficking in Argentina
More than two months after a five-year-old boy went missing in a northeastern Argentina, the Church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him. Source: OSV News.