SOUTH ASIA

AFGHANISTAN: ‘Women’s rights defenders and civil society organisations refuse to be silenced’

India’s young people find their voice

Cockroach insult unleashes biggest challenge yet to Modi’s repressive rule

INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party brings together everyone who has been neglected for years’

AFGHANISTAN: ‘The new law reduces women to a state of enslavement’

BANGLADESH: ‘The deeper change is that people are no longer silent’

BANGLADESH: ‘Our biggest achievement was showing young people’s voices matter’

NEPAL: ‘People used to believe nothing would ever change, and now they believe change is possible’

NEPAL: ‘Voting on Discord was a very Gen Z way of doing politics’

AFGHANISTAN: ‘The Criminal Procedure Code consolidates ideological and legal control over society’

Post-protest Bangladesh: restoration more than renewal

Bangladesh’s first credible election in almost two decades delivers change, but not the transformation Gen Z protested for