Tag: human rights
Philippines urged to compensate wartime sex slave survivors
MANILA (UCAN): On March 10, lawyers representing Philippine women forced to work as sex slaves…
Killing of governor of Negros Oriental and five others deplored
QUEZON CITY (UCAN): Some 100 members of a Catholic pro-life group in the Philippines, Life…
Much-harassed religious sisters acquitted of perjury charges
MANILA (UCAN): Ten religious sisters—eight from the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, one from the…
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…
