No One Should Ever Go Hungry – Yet Millions Do
There is one war we need to fight. For without our intervention, countless people will suffer, and thousands of children will continue dying daily. The name of...
Category: Human Rights
Pope Meets Nadia Murad, Genocide Survivor, Now Advocating for Afghan Women
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis held a private audience with Nadia Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and survivor of the Islamic State-led genocide in Iraq,...
St Josephine Bakhita: 12 Years a Slave
St Josephine Bakhita at a glance Name at birth: Unknown Born: c. 1869 in Olgossa, Sultanate of Darfur (Sudan) Died: February 8, 1947, inSchio, Italy Beatified: May 17,...
Catholic Anti-Slavery Network in Australia becomes model for business
When Australia’s national customs and border law enforcement agency uploaded a Catholic document to a federal government registry monitoring modern-day slavery at the end of June, it...
Pandemic Blamed for Creating Conditions for Increased Human Trafficking
By Tom Tracy – The pandemic-related economic downturn, business closures, increase in global unemployment and reduced incomes have contributed to greater human trafficking of children, women, domestic...
Pray with the Pope: April 2021
Prayer Intention: We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis. It would...
SACBC Defends Rights of Farm Dwellers, Workers
SACBC Justice and Peace Calls On Human Rights Commission to Do More to Defend Rights Of Farm Dwellers And Farm Workers On Thursday, 11 February, SACBC Justice...
Slavery in the 21st Century
Slavery ended in the 19th century, right? Wrong. It’s an easy enough mistake to make. After all, the end of America’s civil war and the Thirteenth Amendment...
Late Rwandan Catholic Gospel Singer Awarded Human Rights Prize
By Fredrick Nzwili – Kizito Mihigo, the late Rwandan Catholic gospel singer, song writer and organist, has been honoured with Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, an...
Caritas Warns Of Rise In Human Trafficking Amid Pandemic
By Junno Arocho Esteves – As governments and world leaders struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, they must also work harder to protect victims of human trafficking, said...
Race And Film: Fiction And Nonfiction That Gives Food For Thought
By Kurt Jensen – No motion picture drama has had the power to change minds the way the on-video death of George Floyd in the custody of police...
Human Rights Champion Mike Auret Dies
Mike Auret, the long-serving chairman of Zimbabwe’s Justice & Peace Commission, parliamentarian and outspoken opponent of President Robert Mugabe, died on April 10, Good Friday, in Ireland....
