by Joshua Woo | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
On 15 June 2012, The Straits Times published Susan Long’s interview with Ms Somaly Mam, a Cambodian sex slave-turned-anti trafficking activist. In the interview, Mam recalled her idyllic childhood among the minority Phnong tribe in Cambodia’s mountainous Mondulkiri...
by Joshua Woo | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
On 6 December 2011, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered what has been described as her historic speech on LGBT rights in Geneva. Clinton spoke eloquently and passionately about the unconscionable atrocities that LGBT people have suffered due to...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
What is the Christian perspective on human rights? THE modern concept of human rights is historically rooted in deism whose concept of God and human autonomy are radically at odds with the teachings of the Bible and the Christian Faith. Christian theologians have long...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
How should Christians think about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? DECEMBER 10, 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is debatably the most important...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Should Christians ever condone torture? ACCORDING to the standard dictionary definition, torture is simply the act of deliberately inflicting pain by one person on another person. There are many ways in which this can be done: beatings, electric shocks, waterboarding,...