Rights

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 07, 2015 • 7 min read

Vietnam Custody battle

By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015
Within the police force, communist ideals trump education and inflicting pain is the preferred interrogation technique, adding up to a deadly environment inside the nation’s prisons

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 01, 2014 • 7 min read

Vietnam Time to eat dog!

By Amanda Saxton • Nov 01, 2014
The taste for dog meat has long been a contentious issue for outsiders. But now the battle has been taken up

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 10, 2014 • 7 min read

Press freedom Truth and lies

By Colin Meyn • Mar 10, 2014
While 2014’s Press Freedom Index shows some positive change in the region, many governments still show a flagrant disregard for the fifth estate

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

Rights • Feb 10, 2014 • 7 min read
Gemstone Mining

Land of broken dreams

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
By Jennifer Meszaros • Feb 10, 2014

Rights • Dec 06, 2013 • 8 min read
Rainbow Myanmar

A quiet struggle

Myanmar’s LGBT community suffers abuse, stigma and the legacy of colonial and dictatorial rule. Slowly, however, it is mobilising and finding a voice
By Carlos Sardiña Galache • Dec 06, 2013

Rights • Nov 15, 2013 • 7 min read
Sexual violence

Dangerous minds

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
By Denise Hruby • Nov 15, 2013

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