The waste warriors
Vietnam’s informal waste collectors often get little respect from many people, but they play a crucial role in helping keep...
Vũ Hồng Trang is a social entrepreneur from Vietnam and a gender advisor at Equal Asia Foundation.
Vietnam’s informal waste collectors often get little respect from many people, but they play a crucial role in helping keep...
Vietnam’s street vendors are an essential part of local economies and city life. Yet COVID-19 has made their lives even...
In Vietnam, one has to undergo “correction” with scalpels to officially change one’s gender.
A s the circumstances deteriorate in Afghanistan, hundreds of Afghans – from government officials to activists and journalists, to members...
Read morePakistan’s devastating floods last year have worsened the water and sanitation problems particularly in the country’s rural areas.
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