Rights

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 24, 2020 • 9 min read

Covid-19 Homebound predators and hard-hit families: Filipino child abuse on the rise

By Tabitha Payne • Aug 24, 2020
With increased demand for child pornography during the pandemic, and the severe economic downturn hitting many families hard, reports of the online sexual exploitation of Filipino children have ballooned during the country's five month lockdown

Rights • Jul 30, 2020 • 12 min read
Discrimination

Malaysian university to be investigated as racism allegations mount

A podcast by ex-staff members has levelled fresh allegations of racism against Malaysian university Limkokwing, with the country's Ministry of Higher Education stating that they are set to investigate the institution
By Yao-Hua Law • Jul 30, 2020

Rights • Jul 23, 2020 • 6 min read
Human rights

As Uighur abuses condemned, Southeast Asia’s silence is deafening

As fresh evidence of alleged rights abuses committed against the Uighur in China's Xinjiang province emerges, much of the world has called out Beijing for its treatment of the ethnic minority group. But in Southeast Asia, the silence is once again deafening
By Alexi Demetriadi • Jul 23, 2020

Rights • Jul 22, 2020 • 2 min read
Rohingya

Lawyer: Malaysia judge drops Rohingya caning after outcry

The lawyer for 27 Rohingya refugees sentenced to caning for entering Malaysia illegally has said a judge has overturned the decision and slammed it as "inhumane"
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 22, 2020

Rights • Jul 13, 2020 • 5 min read
Human rights

In Malaysia, kidnapped Christian pastor’s wife won’t give up fight

It has been three years since Susanna Liew last saw her husband Raymond Koh, kidnapped near the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in 2017. She and their three children have no idea if the Christian pastor is alive or dead, but she won't give up the fight to find him.
By Sam Reeves/Agence France-Presse • Jul 13, 2020

Rights • Jul 10, 2020 • 9 min read
Cambodian democracy

‘A true man of the people’: Revisiting the murder of Dr. Kem Ley

Four years since the passing of Cambodian political commentator and advocate Dr Kem Ley, his murder remains a highly sensitive political issue in the Kingdom. Why does his legacy continue to hold such significance in Cambodian discourse today?
By Andrew Haffner • Jul 10, 2020

Rights • Jul 09, 2020 • 5 min read
Opinion

Why Indonesian workers should be concerned about the Omnibus Bill

With Indonesia's controversial and sweeping pro-investment Omnibus Bill set to be passed this year, researchers at Amnesty International Indonesia explain why workers should be concerned about the legislation's finer details
By Dominique Virgil and Rahma Safira • Jul 09, 2020

Rights • Jul 06, 2020 • 4 min read
Human rights

Myanmar army sacks high-ranking officers over landslide tragedy

Two high-ranking Myanmar officers were fired on Monday in a rare sanction of military personnel for having "failed their responsibilities" after 174 jade miners were killed in Kachin State last week
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 06, 2020

Rights • Jul 03, 2020 • 4 min read
Kachin state

More than 160 dead in devastating Myanmar jade mine landslide

The battered bodies of more than 120 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar on July 2, following one of the worst-ever accidents to hit the treacherous industry
By Agence France-Presse • Jul 03, 2020