Rights

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 • 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 • 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

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