ASIA

Myanmar: military junta gets a free pass

Regional body should follow civil society’s roadmap towards democracy

CONFLICT | CRISIS

SOUTHEAST ASIA

22.Jun.2023

Hong Kong’s lights of freedom extinguished

Attempts to mark anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre met with further repression

FREEDOMS

EAST ASIA

08.Jun.2023

Thailand: time for democracy

Military must accept pro-democracy opposition’s overwhelming election victory

DEMOCRACY

SOUTHEAST ASIA

19.May.2023

Uzbekistan: a president for life?

Constitutional referendum allows president to stay put until 2040 while paying lip service to human rights

DEMOCRACY

CENTRAL ASIA

04.May.2023

Turkey/Syria earthquake: natural disaster and human failures

Destructive impacts worsened by conflict, authoritarianism and corruption

CONFLICT | CRISIS

ASIA

09.Mar.2023

Myanmar’s forgotten crisis

International lack of action is allowing military junta to get away with murder

FREEDOMS

SOUTHEAST ASIA

22.Feb.2023

Afghanistan: theocracy pushes women to the margins

Islamic Emirate proclaimed in 2021 comes to fruition by completing the exclusion of women from work and education

INCLUSION

SOUTH ASIA

12.Jan.2023

Indonesia’s new criminal code: a turn for the worse

Long-overdue changes to outdated law only make it more hostile to women, LGBTQI+ people and other excluded groups

INCLUSION

SOUTHEAST ASIA

16.Dec.2022

China: pandemic protests force a rare retreat

Authoritarian state gives into protest pressure by dropping its ‘zero covid’ policy

FREEDOMS

EAST ASIA

09.Dec.2022

A ‘New Kazakhstan’, or more of the same?

President positions as a reformer – but his latest implausible landslide election win is straight out of the old playbook

DEMOCRACY

CENTRAL ASIA

02.Dec.2022