Global treaty to take aim at workplace harassment
Thomson Reuters Foundation Governments, employers and workers are meeting in Geneva this week to work on the first international convention against workplace harassment after the #MeToo campaign thrust the issue into the global spotlight. About 235 million women in more than a third of the world’s countries are not currently covered by laws against sexual […]
Talking MLK, two US scholars offer antidote to partisanship
Washington, DCRNS Panelists Robert P. George, left, and Cornel West embrace after a discussion on the life and legacy of Rev Martin Luther King, Jr, on 29th May, 2018. PICTURE: Adelle M Banks/RNS The right-leaning Robert P George and the left-leaning Cornel West may not agree ideologically, but the two intellectuals came to the nation’s […]
STRANGESIGHTS: SCRATCH-AND-SNIFF STAMPS; THE SMELL OF PLAY-DOH; AND, CHEESE-CHASER BREAKS RECORD…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
African migrants report torture, slavery in Algeria
Thomson Reuters Foundation Dozens of Africans say they were sold for labour and trapped in slavery in Algeria in what aid agencies fear may be a widening trend of abusing migrants headed for a new life in Europe. Algerian authorities could not be reached for comment and several experts cast doubt on claims that such […]
US religious freedom report shows “no progress” in Myanmar
World Watch Monitor Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and Iran are among the countries criticised for their religious-freedom records in the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2017, launched on Tuesday in Washington, DC. The report references the violence against the predominantly Muslim Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar, whose situation is still “terrible” and “requires the world’s […]
Australia’s Anglican Church, Salvation Army, Scouts and YMCA join national redress scheme for child sex abuse survivors
The Anglican Church, Salvation Army, Scouts Australia and the YMCA have all announced they will join the national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse. The establishment of a national redress scheme was a key recommendation of the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The moves, which were announced at […]
War leaves one in four girls in South Sudan suicidal – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation One in four adolescent girls in South Sudan has considered killing herself, traumatised by physical and sexual violence brought on by the country’s civil conflict, a report by the children’s charity Plan International said on Tuesday. The study, based on surveys with 249 girls aged 10 to 19 across South Sudan, said 25 per […]
LIFESTORY: MINISTER “STILL WRESTLING” WITH HIS FAITH AFTER MURDER OF HIS WIFE AND SON
BOBBY ROSS, Jr, speaks with US pastor Les Ferguson, Jr, about his tragic and remarkable story, now the subject of a new book…
Australia’s Catholic Church formally announces it will join redress scheme for child sex abuse survivors
Australia’s Catholic Church has confirmed it will enter the national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse once laws enabling it are passed by the Senate. The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia confirmed on Wednesday that the church will be entering the scheme which was a key recommendation of the Royal […]