Gathering for justice
A Pashtun civil rights group successfully holds a massive jirga to tackle the community’s problems that range from land grabs ...
A Pashtun civil rights group successfully holds a massive jirga to tackle the community’s problems that range from land grabs ...
The death penalty is already an abhorrent concept for rights advocates, but they say that they find it even more ...
South Asian youths step up in the fight for democracy as opposition parties and civil society flounder under clampdowns across ...
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 super typhoon has killed at least 300 people in Myanmar and rendered hundreds of thousands more without food and ...
A new law on defamation in Pakistan’s most populous province has journalists and rights advocates seeing yet another move by ...
Rights advocates say the international community, including the United Nations, is not doing enough to limit – if not stop ...
Bangladesh’s hijras have long realized that their being recognized legally as the ‘third gender’ does not automatically come with societal ...
In Pakistan’s Sindh, residents and authorities fear that a planned six-canal project on the Indus River will mean doom for...
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