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Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 08, 2020 • 10 min read

Covid-19 Singapore’s working poor hit hardest by economic shutdown

By Toh Ee Ming • Apr 08, 2020
As Covid-19 brings global markets to their knees, Singapore is experiencing its worst economic contraction since 2008. In the wealthy city-state, it's the low-paid urban poor who are being hit hardest

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 07, 2020 • 4 min read

Covid-19 Indonesian prisoners dread virus outbreak

By Agence France-Presse • Apr 07, 2020
In Indonesia's prisons, overcrowding, poor ventilation and deficient health, hygiene and sanitation conditions offer the perfect breading ground for a Covid-19 outbreak

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 06, 2020 • 4 min read

Covid-19 Isolation blues? Myanmar’s ex-political prisoners share survival tips

By Richard Sargent and Su Myat Mon / AFP • Apr 06, 2020
In Myanmar, a generation of political activists faced persecution and isolation as they were jailed for their anti-junta activities in the 1980s and 90s. Today, they're offering their fellow citizens tips on how to keep sane during the pandemic

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 4 min read

Refugees and the displaced Jan Egeland: Humanitarian work must adapt to dangers of Covid-19

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 01, 2020
Jan Egeland has been Secretary General of humanitarian group the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013, overseeing projects in more than 30 countries globally. He spoke with the Globe this week about how Covid-19 has, overnight, dramatically changed the way the industry works with refugees and the displaced

Rights • Mar 31, 2020 • 2 min read
LGBTQ rights

Singapore court rejects challenge to gay sex ban

A fresh bid to overturn a colonial-era Singapore law banning gay sex failed on Monday as a court dismissed challenges posed by three people, a major setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT rights in Asia
By AFP • Mar 31, 2020

Rights • Mar 30, 2020 • 14 min read
Statelessness in Thailand

The state of being

A holder of various international awards for social and environmental activism, Tuenjai Deetes has dedicated her life to eliminating statelessness in Thailand, fighting for the citizenship rights of the country's remote northern hill tribes
By Magdalena Rojo • Mar 30, 2020

Rights • Mar 27, 2020 • 6 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Quarantine in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital

After coming down with a fever three weeks ago, an expat was admitted to Phnom Penh's Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. In the second of our personal essays looking at life during COVID-19, we publish their account of life inside a Cambodian government quarantine
By Andrew Haffner • Mar 27, 2020

Rights • Mar 26, 2020 • 6 min read
Rohingya photography

A life in pictures

Driven from their homes and living in arduous conditions, three Rohingya refugees have been equipped with smart phones and trained in photography in order to document day-to-day life in Bangladesh's refugee camps
By Andrew Haffner • Mar 26, 2020

Rights • Mar 13, 2020 • 4 min read
Press freedom

Reporters Without Borders labels Vietnam, Philippines worst for spreading disinformation

Marking the 10th annual World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March 12, press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders listed Vietnam and the Philippines as among the top-four worst countries in the world for spreading state-sponsored disinformation online
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 13, 2020

Rights • Mar 13, 2020 • 12 min read
Rohingya crisis

The power of the persecuted

Young Canada-based Rohingya activist Yasmin Ullah has helped take the plight of the persecuted ethnic minority group in Myanmar to the world’s largest court, yet her fight for justice has only just begun
By Miriam Deprez • Mar 13, 2020

Rights • Mar 11, 2020 • 8 min read
Women rights Cambodia

Cambodia’s culture of victim-blaming can be ignored no longer

Cambodian Center for Human Rights executive director Chak Sopheap explains how the Cambodian government’s big promises on women’s rights don’t align with reality – and what must be done
By Chak Sopheap • Mar 11, 2020