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Amnesty regrets calling bishops’ conference ‘anti-rights’
Amnesty International UK has expressed regret for releasing a report that included the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and many Christian and Catholic organisations on a list of “anti-rights” organisations. Source: Crux.
World Cup is opportunity for encounter but has risks
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup next month, the Church in Mexico is concerned that an influx of tourists could lead to an increase in human trafficking, exploitation and violence. Source: Catholic World Report.
Liberals seek to legally define biological sex
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has pledged to rewrite the Sex Discrimination Act to enshrine a definition of biological sex, after the Federal Court doubled the damages paid to a transgender woman in a landmark case. Source: SMH.
China increases pressure on underground Catholics
China’s Communist regime is increasing pressure on independent, underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official Church, according to a Human Rights Watch report. Source: UCA News.
UN review says Australia needs human rights act
Australia has been urged to make sweeping reforms to keep Indigenous children out of prison and treat asylum seekers more humanely, after a United Nations review found it was “out of step” with international standards. Source: The Australian.
Catholic organisations call for introduction of Human Rights Act
As the world today marks the United Nations Human Rights Day, Catholic organisations have joined a campaign calling for Australia to introduce a Human Rights Act.
Catholic bishops call on EU to appoint envoy for religious freedom
The representatives of the Catholic bishops to the European Union reiterated their call for the bloc to act firmly against anti-Christian persecution around the world by reinstating the position of the special envoy for religious freedom. Source: CNA.
New ACT law will make housing a human right
Access to adequate housing will become a human right in the ACT in a nation-leading expansion of the territory’s rights law that the bill’s architect said amounted to a “paradigm shift”. Source: Canberra Times.
Exiled Nicaraguan bishop honoured with peace award
Separated from his native Nicaragua by a government that disowned him for speaking up for justice and peace, Bishop Silvio Jose Báez Ortega has accepted a peace award that he dedicated to courageous Nicaraguans continuing that advocacy. Source: OSV News.