After being targeted by Pegasus spyware, a Thai activist fights for justice even as a flawed legal system that dismissed...

In disaster-prone South Asia, a mental-health crisis is building up as people try to cope with the worsening impacts of...

Rights advocates say that nickel-mining activities in the Indonesian island of Halmahera pose a threat to one of the country’s...

In the Philippines, red-tagging of activists and non-profits has escalated to terrorist-tagging, with authorities charging several groups and individuals under...

Rights advocates say that Pakistan’s frequent state-instigated Internet shutdowns and slowdowns are nothing less than rights violations.

Beijing has continued its relentless crackdown on human rights lawyers like Yu Wensheng, sending a message to present and future...

Elections are supposed to offer opportunities for change, but there seems to be little chance of that happening in the...

The death penalty is already an abhorrent concept for rights advocates, but they say that they find it even more...

For decades, India has been the go-to destination of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal seeking treatment for serious medical conditions. But...

Dissenters who are already finding it hard to push back under the Widodo administration may not find critiquing state policies...

A new law on defamation in Pakistan’s most populous province has journalists and rights advocates seeing yet another move by...

Myanmar’s raging civil war is no longer confined to the rural areas, and is now forcing even city dwellers to...

Mongolians now seem to be open to having women leaders participate in sacred rituals that used to be reserved for...

Japan’s decision to present itself as a rights advocate on the international stage seems to have helped attract more asylum...

A chemical leak from a rare-earth mining project in a remote part of northern Laos underscores the dangers such projects...

This August, Thailand’s Constitutional Court is set to issue rulings on two cases that many say could push the country’s...

Rights advocates in the Philippines have been struggling for more than two decades to get the country’s legislators pass a...

Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV are ironically among the factors helping increase transmission of the virus in...

India’s recently concluded mammoth parliamentary election upends expectations and leaves many wondering what to make of it.

A nonprofit conservation organization in Nepal is banking on music to help spread its message on the dire consequences of...

Citing a court decision, companies are helping the Hong Kong government deny residents and visitors to the city access to...

The two districts of the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh have set aside their difference and have come together in...

Planting oil palm has brought steady income to many farmers in Indonesia’s Central Kalimantan, but not all the changes that...

The Indonesian oil-palm sector's continued use of an herbicide banned in many countries may be putting the health of thousands...