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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.

How Kong’s civil society networks have contributed to the containment of COVID-19

  • Sophie Chen & Associate Professor Chris Chan ,

The networks and solidarity formed by the democracy movement laid the groundwork for a prompt civil society response to COVID-19.

Building a community for sexual orientation and gender identity rights in ASEAN

  • Professor Meredith Weiss,

If ASEAN is unlikely to see its way toward SOGIE rights, the arena it reifies arguably helps activists navigate strategies.

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