ASIA

Thailand: time for democracy

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

Uzbekistan: a president for life?

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

‘Being a human rights lawyer has had a huge personal cost’

‘They put a black hood over my face and took me to the airport’

Turkey/Syria earthquake: natural disaster and human failures

Destructive impacts worsened by conflict, authoritarianism and corruption

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘It is just not possible to respond to such a large-scale disaster effectively without civil society’

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Myanmar’s forgotten crisis

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

‘Without international solidarity and support, our democratic hopes will soon be gone’

‘This victory belongs to everyone who supported and fought with us’

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