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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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INTRODUCTION: Questions and challenges for civil society and human rights in Asia

  • Dr Anthony J. Spires,

As elsewhere, many societies in Asia have recently witnessed the rapid rise of populists and democratic regression.

The racialised and gendered online abuse of activists in Japan

  • Assistant Professor Robin O’Day, Satsuki Uno & Professor David Slater,

While human rights activists take advantage of social media, so do their opponents with xenophobic, racist, and sexist tropes.

The many challenges of fighting against enforced disappearances in Asia

  • Professor Tae-Ung Baik,

Many Asian countries still do not understand the nature of enforced disappearance, and often believe the issue is not relevant in their countries.

‘queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media’ by Claire Maree

  • Associate Professor Cindi SturtzSreetharan,

What linguistic anthropologist Miyako Inoue did for Japanese women’s language, Maree has done for onē-kotoba and onē-kyara—the language of queerqueen personalities.

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.

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