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Gender-based violence in Asia: A special series with Asialink

Domestic workers in Southeast Asia are increasingly facing technology-facilitated sexual violence

  • Ashlynn Chand

When will eliminating domestic violence become a priority for the Indonesian government?

  • Dr Balawyn Jones, Dr Windy Triana & Lilis Mulyani

The persistence of gender-based violence among Myanmar exiles in Thailand

  • Eunjeong Lee

When success becomes a battleground: The deadly backlash against India’s educated and working women

  • Anu Krishnan

The sexual and gender-based violence challenge in Asia

  • Dr Hyein Ellen Cho & Dr Amira Aftab

 

Journalism and democracy in Southeast Asia: A special series with Asialink

VIDEO: Maria Ressa – The 2025 Southeast Asia Oration

Media weaponisation in Myanmar and the world’s relative indifference to its crisis

  • Nicholas Coppel

Quality journalism is the only saviour for news outlets in Indonesia

  • Endy Bayuni

In a sweltering Kuala Lumpur cell, media freedom became personal

  • Kean Wong

Cambodia’s media is more affected by funding and fear than Artificial intelligence

  • Liam Cochrane

Democracy in Southeast Asia: A special series with Asialink

Quality journalism is the only saviour for news outlets in Indonesia

  • Endy Bayuni

The power of mimicry: How human rights are covertly undermined in the Philippines

  • Syme de Leon

VIDEO: The 2024 Southeast Asia Oration

Imagining democracy in Myanmar

  • Dr Tamas Wells, Soe Htet & Dr Michael Breen

Is Cambodian civil society shrinking or just changing shape?

  • Melissa Curley

The Contradictions in Anwar’s Civilising Mission in Malaysia

  • Dr S. Munirah Alatas

Contestation and collaboration: Politics in Singapore

  • Dr Gillian Koh

How Indonesia’s cyberspace entrenches oligarchic power

  • Ary Hermawan

Asian Indigeneities

Sacred and silenced: How Indigenous beliefs struggle for space in Indonesia

  • Affaf Mujahidah

How Indigenous peoples in Taiwan continue to reclaim their lands rights despite 400 years of colonisation 中文

  • Yi-shiuan Yayut Chen

INTERVIEW: Despair among the Indigenous peoples of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts

  • Rani Yan Yan

Bridging the gap between reality and Japan’s Ainu Cultural Policy

  • Prof Jeffry Gayman & Saana Santalahti

INTERVIEW: The revival of indigenous culture and language in Taiwan: An indigenous leader’s perspective

  • Akawyan Pakawyan (林清美)

Indigeneity, Localism, Sinophobia and the Politics of Apology in Taiwan, Hawai’i and Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Dr Lewis Mayo

Unveiling ‘colour-blind’ ideology: the reality of Indigenous identity in China

  • Dr Dak Lhagyal

Indigenous knowledge is key to better managing water in Indonesia

  • Dr Justin Wejak

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