By Samantha McCabe • Dec 09, 2019
For the second year in a row, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines has found that Myanmar is the only country in the world where the government is still using landmines. As the devices wreak havoc on communities nationwide, why is international funding to de-mine the country dropping?

By Julija Veljkovic • Dec 06, 2019
The illusion of democracy has cast its net wide in Southeast Asia. This week we looked at the dangers human rights activists face in Thailand, how public flogging humiliates and degrades people in Indonesia’s Aceh province, what Cambodia’s future is projected to look like, and more.

By Sebastian Strangio • Dec 06, 2019
Top stories: Public floggings prescribed under strict sharia law were on the rise in Indonesia’s Aceh province in 2015, with a new bylaw set to usher in an era of even harsher corporal punishment.

By Andrew Haffner • Dec 05, 2019
Thailand's first election since 2011 saw ex-military leader Prayut Chan-ocha elected prime minister in March. But in the face of the government's challenge to upstart opposition politician Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of the Future Forward Party, as well as dissenters nationwide, Thai civil society activists have vowed to keep fighting.