Essay: Slow international response to Belarus crisis shows limits of world’s human rights regime
In an article first published on The Conversation, KANSTANTSIN DZEHTSIAROU, professor in human rights law at the University of Liverpool, says there is much more the international community could do to support human rights in Belarus…
In the US, Trump works to win over Catholic voters on abortion issue
Washington DC, USAP US President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to sign an executive order that would require health care providers to provide medical care to all babies born alive as he makes an election-year push to appeal to voters who oppose abortion. The White House did not release further details about the order, but Trump’s […]
Wow!: Girls tackle child marriage on the football pitch in India
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Global church bodies call for “more compassionate” approach to migrants in Europe
Global Christian organisations have joined in calling for a more compassionate approach to the treatment of migrants and refugees in Europe, saying that a recent fire at the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos – which housed more than 12,500 people – had highlighted “longstanding shortcomings of EU migration and asylum policy”. […]