Human Rights

The 2023-24 Federal Budget, handed down tonight, includes some positive investments to ease current cost of living pressures experienced by millions of Australians and support vital services such as Medicare, but a modest increase to the Jobseeker payment does almost nothing to lift vulnerable people out of poverty, says Jesuit Social Services.

The Arrupe Nanmin Center has been bestowed the Human Rights Award by the Kanagawa Bar Association for its significant contribution to human rights protection.

Back in 1993, the General Assembly decided in a resolution that 15th May of every year should be observed as The International Day of Families. This day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase the knowledge of the socio-cultural and economic issues affecting families.

The MAGIS Foundation's support for the project Rebuilding Communities Affected by Leprosy, HIV/AIDS and Physical Disability in Vijayapura (India), which officially started in February 2023 at St Joseph's Health and Community Centre in Vijayapura, continues.

For 75 years, the Institute of Social Order (ISO), known to be one of the oldest non-governmental organisations in the Philippines, has played a vital role in the formation of civil society organisations,

En fecha 5 de abril de 2022, en la comunidad Santa Rosa del territorio autónomo guaraní de Huacaya, departamento de Chuquisaca, se llevó a cabo una reunión interinstitucional convocada por la Capitanía Guaraní de la Zona Santa Rosa de Huacaya, para coordinar la gestión y el uso correcto del agua de la pera construida en la comunidad Itangua.

“The government speaks of human rights violations as collateral damage [to the anti-gang crusade], effectively inciting people toward vengeance,” but “The gospel calls us to pursue dialogue,” Fr. José Tojeira, S.J., said in an interview with America.

Jesuits throughout the Americas are demanding justice for two Mexican Jesuits who were murdered last June in Cerocahui, Mexico. Eight months have passed since their deaths, but the perpetrator, a notorious local cartel leader, has still not been apprehended.

The platform nosomosexpedientes.mx is a digital space that provides relatives of missing persons with helpful tools and valuable information for following up on their investigation and interaction with the public prosecutors' offices.

On December 20, at the Forum Saint-Michel in Brussels, JRS Belgium held, in partnership with the Centre Avec, a round table on its monitoring work carried out within closed centres.