Rights

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 18, 2019 • 9 min read

Poverty in the Philippines Duterte’s other war

By Thomas Brent • Jun 18, 2019
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's drug crackdown has often been slammed as a war on the nation's poor. But a new anti-poverty law is turning that narrative on its head

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 10, 2019 • 15 min read

Mental health in Singapore The fallen

By Thomas Brent • Jun 10, 2019
For some Singaporeans with mental health issues, mandatory military service can be an isolating and traumatic experience – and one which can leave them at serious risk of self-harm

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 06, 2019 • 14 min read

Sexual abuse Under the world’s mirror

By Thomas Brent and Kong Meta • Jun 06, 2019
Facing discrimination for gender, disability and poverty, Cambodia’s women and girls with disabilities are among the most vulnerable to sexual abuse and violence

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 04, 2019 • 7 min read

Religion How sharia came to Brunei

By Thomas Brent • Apr 04, 2019
Brunei has become the first country in Southeast Asia to fully implement sharia criminal law on a national level, imposing brutal punishments for adultery and same-sex relations

Rights • Mar 21, 2019 • 8 min read
Special educational needs

Invisible children

Children with difficulties or disabilities have long been overlooked or excluded from Cambodia’s education system – that could change with the opening of the country’s first school dedicated to their learning
By Claire Baker-Munton • Mar 21, 2019

Rights • Mar 16, 2019 • 7 min read
Politics

Why the Philippines’ ICC exit could ‘undermine years of quiet diplomacy’

Duterte’s decision to withdraw the Philippines from the International Criminal Court has prompted outcry from certain members of the opposition and human rights groups. But what exactly is he walking away from? Southeast Asia Globe breaks down the purpose of the ICC, and what a withdrawal really means for the Philippines
By Thomas Brent • Mar 16, 2019

Rights • Mar 08, 2019 • 14 min read
Women's rights

A cut, unseen

Despite Singapore’s reputation as a modern hub of progress and prosperity, female genital mutilation and cutting remains widespread among the city-state’s Malay Muslim community
By Robin Spiess • Mar 08, 2019

Rights • Feb 21, 2019 • 10 min read
Rohingya and India

No refuge either

Last month, India deported a family of Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar to face statelessness and possible genocide in their homeland – the latest blow in a fierce anti-Muslim movement under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing government
By Lesly Lotha • Feb 21, 2019

Rights • Jan 16, 2019 • 5 min read
Timor-Leste

Pushing boundaries

Meet Cristina Amaral, Timor Leste's first female pilot and flight instructor
By Sophie Raynor • Jan 16, 2019

Rights • Dec 15, 2018 • 6 min read
Press Freedom

He wanted to expose Cambodia’s virginity trade. Now, he’s in prison

A Cambodian translator helped foreign journalists film a documentary about alleged sex trafficking in the Kingdom. Authorities now claim the film’s subjects said they were paid to be in the film. The translator’s wife, who visited him in prison, tells Southeast Asia Globe that her husband is afraid, sick and innocent
By Matt Surrusco • Dec 15, 2018

Rights • Dec 14, 2018 • 10 min read
Khmer Rouge tribunal

‘Astonishing failure’ or ‘justice for millions’?

After nearly 20 years and $320m in cost, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) landed its first genocide conviction of high-level officers in the Pol Pot regime. A looming judicial stalemate on the fate of two more cases could lead to the ECCC’s termination
By Charles Dunst • Dec 14, 2018

Rights • Dec 12, 2018 • 14 min read
Vietnam

The Vietnamese deportees caught in Trump’s immigration war

As the Trump administration ramps up deportation numbers, people who fled the Vietnam War are finding themselves caught between two former foes. This is the story of a deportee who has found himself a stranger in a strange land where he is a target for discrimination because of his father’s wartime legacy and his minority ethnicity
By Charles Dunst • Dec 12, 2018