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Global civil society must promote linguistic rights for China’s Indigenous peoples

  • Dr Gerald Roche,

China is involved in historical denialism that enables the Party-state to continue human rights abuses against vulnerable linguistic communities.

Politicising the natural environment through Indonesian art

  • Dr Edwin Jurriëns,

Many Indonesian artists discuss natural disasters not in isolation, but in relation to broader social, political and historical processes and injustices.

The year of daring: revisiting the Philippine left’s dalliance with a strongman

  • Emerson M. Sanchez & Dr Jayson S. Lamchek,

Given Duterte’s open endorsement of mass killings and
anti-human rights rhetoric, how was an alliance possible with the left movement?

India’s progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

  • Professor Paul Chaney,

There are more than 27 million persons with disabilities in India and their rights are still not protected.

The COVID-19 pandemic and possibilities for Arab ‘risk society’

  • Professor Larbi Sadiki & Associate Professor Layla Saleh,

COVID-19 may afflict without discrimination, but not all polities, economies and societies can equally withstand its damage and rebuild in its aftermath.