New Delhi (CNN)The two women who broke with centuries of conservative taboo Wednesday to enter a temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala are now in hiding, as violent protests left at least one person dead.The pair, aged 42 and 44, became the first women to access the shrine after the country’s Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban on women aged… Read more »
Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s far-east Papua province who killed a group of construction workers earlier this month have refused to surrender. The jungle camp killings of at least 16 labourers last week were a marked escalation in decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised fighters and an Indonesian military long accused of gross human rights abuses against… Read more »
Marrakech, Morocco – Rodrigo Duterte‘s war on drugs will lead to a “killing field” if the Philippinespresident is allowed to continue his crackdown, the country’s Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has warned. While officials have put the death figure close to 5,000 since Duterte came to office in 2016, rights groups and opposition politicians say more than 20,000 people have been killed by police. “We… Read more »
Sri Lanka’s top court has ruled that the president’s dissolution of parliament last month was unconstitutional, as a political crisis continues to grip the nation. President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed his prime minister and replaced him with former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in late October. When that decision was contested, he dissolved parliament. The ruling could see sacked PM Ranil Wickremesinghe return… Read more »
Japan’s Diet closed its final session of 2018 on December 10th. For Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, it may have been somewhat disappointing end to the year. Abe and the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party had to put off plans to proceed on a Constitutional amendment in the fall Diet session. But he has indicated that he has no intention of… Read more »