human rights
New Vatican document combines modern transparency with eternal teaching
By Thomas Reese — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Pope Francis summons all people to defend human dignity in every moment of human existence.
In Gaza, the cease-fire accentuates the barbarity of the war
By Omar Suleiman — November 28, 2023
(RNS) — The relative quiet is only a reminder that the status quo in Gaza is cruelty.
If India and the US really share values, Biden must call out Modi
By Sunita Viswanath and Sim Singh Attariwala — June 23, 2023
(RNS) — A state visit is more an occasion for course correction than celebration.
Are some human rights more important than others? Religious freedom advocates often put it first
By Laura E. Alexander — May 2, 2023
(The Conversation) — Religious freedom has grown more important in US foreign policy – but does that come at the expense of promoting other human rights?
US, allies push for UN rights body debate on Xinjiang abuses
By Jamey Keaten — September 26, 2022
(AP) — Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from Muslim minority groups into detention camps.
Dede Robertson, wife of religious broadcaster, dies at 94
By Ben Finley — April 20, 2022
(AP) — She represented the U.S. on the Inter-American Commission of Women, which worked to ensure recognition of women’s human rights, and served on the board of Regent University, which her husband founded.
Russia is censured for religious freedom violations against Jehovah’s Witnesses
By Kathryn Post — February 23, 2022
(RNS) — Europe's highest human rights court found the country has violated Jehovah’s Witnesses' rights to liberty and freedom of religion.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: father of South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’
By P. Pratap Kumar — December 28, 2021
(The Conversation) — Archbishop Tutu earned the respect and love of millions of South Africans and the world.
US Holocaust Museum says China boosting Uyghur repression
By Matthew Lee — November 9, 2021
The museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region, something China has repeatedly declined.
New poll reveals how much we presume about Muslim Americans’ politics
By Simran Jeet Singh — October 15, 2021
(RNS) — Two decades after 9/11, Americans are still getting to know their Muslim neighbors. New data may help.
Human rights is on Blinken’s agenda in India. Can he make it stick?
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 30, 2021
(RNS) — If we are going to be partners, we have to hold India to the standards we expect from ourselves.
Why reparations are always about more than money
By Kerry Whigham — July 6, 2021
(The Conversation) — From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, enshrines familiar criticisms of racism and borders
By Claire Giangravé — October 4, 2020
(RNS) — Braving a renewal of the criticism he got for allegedly pushing a socialist political agenda in his 2015 encyclical, Francis questions the West's attention to private property.
Mike Pompeo claims the Judeo-Christian tradition for his agenda — a tradition in itself
By Mark Silk — August 5, 2020
(RNS) — Just because it's been embraced by the religious right doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Pompeo’s rights commission delivers an implicit critique of Trump
By Mark Silk — July 17, 2020
(RNS) — A report with a more expansive of human rights than the secretary of state — or his boss — may have anticipated.
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