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Friday, July 5th, 2013
A Wellington priest has made a submission to the Select Committee considering the the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and Related Legislation Amendment Bill. Monsignor Gerard Burns said his deepest concern about this bill is that it shakes the relationship of trust between the State and the citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand. “Because a healthy society Read more
Tags: GCSB, GCSB select committtee, Gerard Burns, Human rights, Privacy, Select Committee, Spy Bill
Posted in New Zealand, Top Story | Comments Off on Wellington priest makes private submission to GCSB select committtee
Friday, June 21st, 2013
Charles Clark probably doesn’t win a lot of friends in his chosen profession when he says that most economists don’t really understand the economy. But even though he earns a living teaching economics at St. John’s University in New York, Clark believes that understanding how the economy really works requires more than just a classroom Read more
Tags: Charles Clark, Economics, Economy, Human rights, Inequality, Social justice, wealth gap
Posted in Features | Comments Off on Why the wealth gap is bad for everyone
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
The world’s governments must give “absolute priority” to the fundamental human rights of refugees, a new Vatican document declares. The strongly worded document, entitled Welcoming Christ in Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Persons, was released jointly by the Pontifical Council for Migrants and the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. It says Catholic laity have an obligation to Read more
Tags: detention, Freedom, Human rights, interment, protection, Refugees, Vatican document, xenophobia
Posted in World | Comments Off on Human rights of refugees demand ‘priority’
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
The ideology of absolute self-determination has become sacred and unquestionable. In 2002, Belgium became the second country in the world after its neighbour, The Netherlands, to legalise euthanasia. Over the next decade our country has become a living laboratory for radical social change. With many other countries debating legalisation at the moment, now is a Read more
Tags: Belgium, Euthanasia, Human rights, mercy killing, Social justice
Posted in Features | Comments Off on How legal euthanasia changed Belgium for ever
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Isabel Allende, a leading Latin American novelist, has praised the efforts of the Church in Chile on behalf of human rights following the 1973 overthrow of her cousin President Salvador Allende. She said Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, Archbishop of Santiago from 1961 to 1983, “established an office inside the cathedral” to document cases of disappearance Read more
Tags: Catholic Church, Chile 1973 coup, Human rights, Isabel Allende, Salvador Allende
Posted in News Shorts | Comments Off on Church praised for work after 1973 Chile coup
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
An Argentine pacifist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980 has come to the defence of Pope Francis’s actions between 1976 and 1983, when the military ruled the nation. Adolfo Perez Esquivel said Pope Francis preferred to carry out a “silent diplomacy” in helping victims, rather than leading a more public outcry during Argentina’s Read more
Tags: Argentina, Dirty-war, Human rights, Nobel Prize, Pope Francis, regime
Posted in World | Comments Off on Nobel laureate refutes allegations against Pope Francis
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
A new anti-Semitism is rising in several countries and could lead to dire consequences for democratic societies and members of all religions, according to witnesses who testified at a United States Congressional hearing. Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders spoke of the threat anti-Semitism poses to non-Jewish communities and even to democratic government. The hearing was called Read more
Tags: anti-Semitism, Chris Smith, Christian, Human rights, Jew, Muslim, Religions
Posted in World | Comments Off on Anti-Semitism seen as threat to Catholics too
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
The Archbishop of Port Moresby says Papua New Guinea’s government will be slow to activate its death penalty laws because of church opposition, after the Pacific nation’s attorney-general said he is revisiting the idea. Archbishop John Ribat says Attorney-General Kerenga Kua’s plan to activate the never-before-used law is the wrong way to deter crime and Read more
Tags: Capital Punishment, Death penalty, Human rights, John Ribat, Kerenga Kua, Victor Roche
Posted in Asia Pacific | Comments Off on PNG Bishops oppose death penalty
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
A bill allowing victims to get part of the compensation paid to prisoners is “eye-for-an-eye” justice, according to the Ombudsman Beverly Wakem. Some criminals have received large compensation payments for violation of their human rights. The Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims (Continuation and Reform) Amendment Bill will make permanent earlier temporary legislation which allowed victims of crime to Read more
Tags: Beverley Wakem, Compesation, Human rights, Ombudsman, Prisoner's rights, victims
Posted in New Zealand, Top Story | Comments Off on Compensation law change is “eye-for-an-eye” justice – Ombudsman
Friday, December 14th, 2012
The United States Supreme Court has a history of playing a pivotal role in emotive cultural debates including, for example, abortion (Roe v Wade), racial segregation (Brown v Board of Education) and the death penalty (Roper v Simmons). Marriage equality will now join this list. In a much anticipated move, the US Supreme Court announced Read more
Tags: Human rights, Marriage, Paula Gerber, Same-sex marriage, US, US Supreme Court
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on US Supreme Court and same-sex marriage debate