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Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 25, 2020 • 11 min read

The View From Southeast Asia Solidarity among people: Black Lives Matter and Southeast Asia

By Macy-Châu Diễm Trần • Jun 25, 2020
Black Lives Matter has thrust the issue of race into the mainstream narrative across the world, and Southeast Asia is no different. From Myanmar to Papua, groups in the region have expressed solidarity and discussed their own experiences with ethnicity and identity

Rights • Jun 16, 2020 • 4 min read
Online activism

In Thailand, activists flood online to protest Wachalearm disappearance

With the whereabouts of missing activist Wanchalearm still unknown, protestors in Thailand are turning to social media to express their grief and start hashtags as platforms like Twitter continue to adopt an increasingly significant role in the kingdom's political discourse
By Wanpen Pajai • Jun 16, 2020

Rights • Jun 15, 2020 • 6 min read
Black Lives Matter

Perspectives from Khmer diaspora in the US on the Black Lives Matter movement

As protests erupt across the United States demanding racial equality and an end to police brutality, members of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association living across the country offer their reflections on race and the Black Lives Matter movement
By Cambodian American Literary Arts Association • Jun 15, 2020

Rights • Jun 15, 2020 • 6 min read
Opinion

Khmer community – It is time for us to say Black Lives Matter

As Black Lives Matter protests gathers momentum globally, Deputy Director of the Cambodian American Literary Arts Association Joan Chun says the Khmer community must examine its own attitude to blackness and throw its support behind the movement
By Joan Chun • Jun 15, 2020

Rights • Jun 12, 2020 • 7 min read
Human rights

In the furnace: Why is Cambodia’s brick kiln child labour persisting?

Last year, the Cambodian government set out to put a permanent end to child labour in the country’s brick kilns by 2020. But as the problem persists, experts believe the remedy will have to tackle the systemic issues causing children to head to the furnaces
By Alexi Demetriadi • Jun 12, 2020

Rights • Jun 12, 2020 • 3 min read
Human rights

Child Labour Index: Cambodia highest risk in region for underage workers

Consulting firm Verisk Maplecroft has ranked Cambodia 28th in the world and the highest risk in Southeast Asia for the use of child labour in its 2020 index. The Southeast Asia region as a whole faired poorly, with seven countries deemed at 'extreme' or 'high' risk
By Alexi Demetriadi and Alastair McCready • Jun 12, 2020

Rights • Jun 05, 2020 • 9 min read
Covid-19

Pandemic creating conditions ripe for human trafficking, experts fear

As Southeast Asia remains locked down, efforts to prevent human trafficking are slowing. But the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic poses particular threats to vulnerable communities across the region, as it heightens the appeal of a better life elsewhere
By Gerald Flynn and Andreas Schloenhardt • Jun 05, 2020

Rights • May 26, 2020 • 9 min read
Human trafficking

Cracks widen during virus for Vietnam’s most vulnerable – trafficked women

In northern Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of workers cross the Chinese border each year in search of work, among them women lured on false pretences and trafficked into marriage or sex work. As Vietnam's economy has slowed in recent months, these women are more vulnerable than ever
By Ashley Lampard • May 26, 2020

Rights • May 25, 2020 • 2 min read
Migrant workers

Filipina domestic worker commits suicide in Lebanon says embassy

A Filipina domestic workers committed suicide after jumping from the roof of a shelter run by her embassy in Lebanon. Already harsh conditions for migrant workers in the Middle East have only been made worse in recent months as the Covid-19 crisis causes currencies to depreciate and wages drop
By Agence France-Presse • May 25, 2020