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US #humanrights report says Asian nations failed to improve human rights as crackdown on civic #freedoms , threats to life, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and attacks on vulnerable groups continued. Department of State Safeguard Defenders (保护卫士) Amnesty International Awami League

#HongKong ’s outspoken Cardinal Jozeph Zen and four other pro-democracy activists have appealed against a court verdict that found them guilty of associating with the 2019 protest fund. #democracy
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Basant Rawat writes about Indian Prime Minister #NarendraModi ’s electoral challenger, Hemangi Sakhi, a #transgender , who also happens to be a Hindu seer and from his home state. Narendra Modi #RajyaSabha #RajyaSabha Election
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Environment experts in #Vietnam have warned against the negative impacts of a large-scale canal infrastructure project being built by neighboring Cambodia in the #MekongRiver .

The #UnitedStates Country Report on Human Rights Practices in #Cambodia paints a scathing picture of torture and inhumane conditions faced by political prisoners and scribes. #humanrights
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#Pakistan comes under criticism for dismal #humanrights violations especially for failing to protect #minority rights and curbing attacks on religious minorities in the latest #humanrights report from the US State Department. USCIRF The Center for Research and Security Studies Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
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#Texas Carmelites seek a temporary restraining order against Vatican-imposed leadership, underscoring their rejection of a #Vatican decision to place its governance under a national Carmelite association.
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A U.S. archbishop denounces the #Biden administration's decision to resume deportations of Haitian migrants, given the rampant violence and instability in #Haiti . #Portuguese #migrants Thomas Wenski ICE United Nations Joe Biden

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According to the bishops' conference's Land Pastoral Commission, the number of conflicts over land, water or forest territories grew in Brazil in 2023, reaching 2,203 cases and impacting more than 950,000 people. #Brazil Jair M. Bolsonaro
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Victims of severe #floods in southern #China race to salvage property from the muddy waters, as authorities warned of more heavy rains to come.
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Activist- #journalist Virginia Saldanha finds the #Vatican document on human dignity 'an underserved pat on the back' that the Office for the Doctrine of the Faith gives itself. #HumanRights #UnitedNations #freedom United Nations #LGBTQIA #PopeFrancis
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The #UnitedNations calls for an international investigation into reports of mass graves at two #Gaza hospitals destroyed in #Israeli sieges, saying war crimes might have been committed. United Nations Volker Türk United NationsHumanRights World Health Organization (WHO)
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The largest Church group in #India ’s northeast praises a chief minister for criticizing opposition party’s manifesto which promised marriage rights for #LGBTQIA + community. #Nagaland Congress Neiphiu Rio BJP Narendra Modi
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Unemployment, rights – among key concerns among India’s young voters.
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About 5,500 #refugees who fled to #Thailand return home after a weekend of fighting around Myawaddy, on #Myanmar ’s southeast border, subsided and rebels called for cooperation. Report by Luke Hunt

A Church leader and a rights activist calls the inclusion of Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2024, a “hollow and controversial” decision. #Philippines #Farmers #Hawaii #MartialLaw
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#Christians are irrelevant in #India ’s electoral landscape, more so in the last 10 years when they have been completely invisiblized, writes John Dayal after first phase of polling. #democracy
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