Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 28, 2014 • 3 min read
Disability Gimme shelter
By Eric San Juan • Feb 28, 2014
Plans for a purpose-built hamlet envision opportunity, equality and recognition for the little people of the Philippines
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Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 10, 2014 • 7 min read
Gemstone Mining Land of broken dreams
By Jennifer Meszaros • Feb 10, 2014
Every day, hundreds of men, women and children risk their lives mining for gems in a remote corner of Cambodia. A young miner and his father share their stories and struggles as they carve out an existence
Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 06, 2013 • 8 min read
Rainbow Myanmar A quiet struggle
By Carlos Sardiña Galache • Dec 06, 2013
Myanmar’s LGBT community suffers abuse, stigma and the legacy of colonial and dictatorial rule. Slowly, however, it is mobilising and finding a voice
Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 15, 2013 • 7 min read
Sexual violence Dangerous minds
By Denise Hruby • Nov 15, 2013
11.3% of Cambodian men had raped a woman in the past year. Here, four sex workers share their shocking stories of rape, gang rape and violence
Rights • May 10, 2013 • 11 min read
Land Rites
The canes of wrath
There is nothing sweet about life for the exploited labourers of Cambodia's sugar fields
By Clothilde Le Coz • May 10, 2013
Rights • Mar 27, 2013 • 2 min read
Samui Prison
A clean break
In a pioneering project on the paradise island of Koh Samui, female prisoners are learning useful skills for life on the outside
By Southeast Asia Globe • Mar 27, 2013
Rights • Feb 14, 2013 • 7 min read
law and order
Justice in the dock
The spotlight has once again been cast on the Kingdom’s fractured judiciary. What are the roots of its problems?
By Bridget Di Certo • Feb 14, 2013
Rights • Jan 04, 2013 • 4 min read
Mental Health
Bleak house
Rejected by their families, Indonesia’s mentally unwell are often subjected to torturous conditions in underfunded institutions
By Dene Mullen • Jan 04, 2013
Rights • Nov 08, 2012 • 3 min read
Exiled to nowhere
Recent sectarian violence has brought renewed attention to the Rohingya. Brutal oppression is nothing new to this Muslim ethnic group, many of whom have chosen to endure a hellish existence in hostile Bangladesh rather than return to their native Myanmar
By Greg Constantine • Nov 08, 2012
Rights • Sep 10, 2012 • 7 min read
Cambodia
The missing link
The Kingdom’s first generation of social workers are on a mission to right society’s wrongs
By Sacha Passi • Sep 10, 2012
Rights • Aug 01, 2012 • 8 min read
Boeung Kak Lake
No man’s land
Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake development project has become a flashpoint for clashes over valuable land as the Kingdom develops. Will a high-profile protest movement encourage the Cambodian government to side with its electorate?
By Sebastian Strangio • Aug 01, 2012
Rights • Jun 18, 2012 • 3 min read
Gimme shelter
As a new Myanmar emerges, the battle rages on for the inhabitants of Kachin, its northernmost state. Thousands of civilians have been displaced and ethnic troops have taken up arms once more to defend their homeland from government forces. Photographer Narciso Contreras captures their story
By Narciso Contreras • Jun 18, 2012