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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand is the latest country to wrestle with its history of the cruel, systemic and commonplace abuse of children and vulnerable adults in the care of state and faith-based institutions.
BANGKOK (AP) — A prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority was released from prison earlier this week, a member of a Kachin peace organization said Wednesday.
Philippe Le Corre is senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis, and a senior advisor to Asia Society France.
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon apologised and promised reforms on Wednesday after a public inquiry found some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and religious care over the last 70 years.
Civil society organisations are keen to see the ADB adopt new measures that promote comprehensive and genuine safeguarding of the environment and communities affected by the bank’s projects. What we need is an environmental and social framework that truly upholds the principle of “do no harm” in planning, design and implementation.
