ASIA

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Long-overdue changes to outdated law only make it more hostile to women, LGBTQI+ people and other excluded groups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

Malaysia: will new government bring real change?

Challenger promising to improve civic space comes to power – but political volatility is likely to continue

DEMOCRACY

SOUTHEAST ASIA

25.Nov.2022

Taiwan in the firing line

China talks tough – but Taiwan’s people want to choose their own path

CONFLICT | CRISIS

EAST ASIA

15.Nov.2022

China’s Xi Jinping at the pinnacle of power

Re-elected party chairman set to become China’s longest-ruling strongman since Mao

DEMOCRACY

EAST ASIA

31.Oct.2022

Afghanistan’s frozen assets and a looming winter crisis

Civil society campaigns for urgent action to avert humanitarian disaster

CONFLICT | CRISIS

SOUTH ASIA

12.Oct.2022