Rights advocates are cautiously optimistic over what will happen next after Tokyo adopted an ordinance recognizing same-sex partnerships.

The Asian giant’s attempts to enhance its international image through soft power have mixed results.

Like millions of other students worldwide, schoolchildren in India are trying to get adjusted again to learning in class.

Malaysia is heading toward an early general election, but few are optimistic that a change in leadership will actually lead to a change in people’s lives there.

Sexual abuse in Thailand’s schools has long been a challenge. In a roundtable discussion, teachers and advocates for sexual abuse survivors share their views on the issue.

A constantly persecuted ethnic and religious minority group in Afghanistan finds life even more perilous under Taliban rule.

Those trying to use India's Right to Information Act and seek public accountability are finding themselves up against all kinds of barriers, with some receiving threats to their lives.

Vietnam-based NGOs perform a delicate balancing act to accommodate both their foreign donors and the Communist Party.

Many of China’s rights lawyers are not backing down despite the growing challenges to their cause.

Their life in India remains difficult, but young Rohingya refugees are ending up with positive outlooks nevertheless because of the so-called ‘beautiful game’ of football.

Authorities in India have made the country top in the list of nations with the most instances of internet shutdowns, and with Kashmir in particular getting cut off from the...

Rampant illegal logging and land-grabbing in Cambodia leave the country’s indigenous peoples without livelihoods — and more.

Vietnam's use of vague definitions of “fake news” and “false accusations” to justify digital repression deals a major blow to human rights.

Controversies involving traditional tattoo artist Maria Onggay expose the continuing inability of government authorities to empower indigenous communities in protecting their art and culture.

The pandemic and its fallout are far from over, and Asian nations keep racking up bills upon bills as they struggle to mount recovery plans.

They still adore their K-pop idols, but non-Korean fans of Korean pop music are now also making themselves known as political activists.

Legal headways in trans rights in India are failing to make it through to Kashmir.

Millions of Pakistanis may be trapped by floodwaters for months more with little food and clean water.

Human traffickers prey on women from Nepal’s Dalit and indigenous communities who are desperate for opportunities denied them in their country.

Thailand is now caught up in a heated debate over the government’s recent decriminalization of cannabis.

Even some members of the LGBTQ community remain wary over the announced repeal of Singapore’s so-called “gay law,” but queer-rights advocates are seeing it as a victory for now.

Authoritarian governments gain more power and militarist groups gain ground in countries that have only recently become democratic, and Asia is a microcosm of the global decline of democracy.

Indonesia was new Philippine President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr.’s first official foreign visit — which was apt considering the political commonalities between his country and its neighbor.

India has had a law legalizing abortion for more than half a century now, but that has not guaranteed that the country’s women would be easily able to exercise their...