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12 September 2017 by Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier
‘That guy should be killed’: Escaping a mob in Maungdaw, Myanmar Hostility greeted three journalists who made a clandestine trip to Maungdaw, in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, late last month after the security operation had began against those behind the August 25 attacks. When 10 journalis [...]
30 August 2017 by Patricia Gossman
Agony of Afghanistan’s Enforced Disappearances, according to HRW As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, learning the fate of the tens of thousands of Afghans who have been victims of enforced disappearance over the past four decades seems ever more remote. For the [...]
30 August 2017 by AFP
18,500 Rohingya cross into Bangladesh since fresh Myanmar fighting: IOM At least 18,500 Rohingya have fled into Bangladesh in the last six days since renewed fighting broke out between militants and the army in neighbouring Myanmar, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. "As of l [...]
29 August 2017 by Mark Kersten
Pre-Meditated Madness, the International Criminal Court, and Preliminary Examinations Attention among observers and scholars of international criminal justice has increasingly focused on what happens before the International Criminal Court (ICC) intervenes in a situation and issues arrest warrants for perpetrators [...]
29 August 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Disappeared in Nepal : The survivors'unanswered questions Every year, as part of the global movement against enforced disappearances, we commemorate the International Day Against Enforced Disappearance. On this day, we, raise up the voices of families affected by enforced disappearance, [...]
24 August 2017 by AFP
Annan 's Commission calls on Myanmar to end Rohingya repression Myanmar must scrap restrictions on movement and citizenship for its Rohingya minority if it wants to avoid fuelling extremism and bring peace to Rakhine state, a commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan said Thursday. Rights g [...]
16 August 2017 by Khin Chan Myae Maung, Frontier
Women's struggle in Myanmar is not a myth The argument that gender inequality is not an issue in Myanmar is simply not borne out by the facts on the ground.Women’s rights is not a topic that needs a long-winded introduction; it has been a fight that has been taken up by m [...]
6 August 2017 by AFP
Women as 'collateral' in Pakistan jirga justice The rape of a teenage girl in revenge for a crime committed by her brother has left residents of Raja Ram in central Pakistan shaken and questioning a deeply entrenched system of village justice. Last month, a council of village e [...]
31 July 2017 by AFP
'Partition is not over': Pakistani Hindus find little refuge in India For decades, Jogdas dreamed of moving to India to escape the persecution he suffered as a Hindu in Muslim Pakistan. But the reality of life over the border is a far cry from those dreams. Seventy years after partition unleashed th [...]
27 July 2017 by AFP
Kashmiri militant named head of new Al-Qaeda-linked group A prominent young Kashmiri militant has been named as the head of a new Al-Qaeda-linked group in the disputed Himalayan territory, a move described by Indian police Thursday as an "ideological shift" in the long-running conflict. [...]
24 July 2017 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal’s Transitional Justice mechanism "a road to nowhere" The existing transitional justice (TJ) system in Nepal fails to open avenues for social justice as it is envisioned and demanded at the local level. Rather, the current system promotes a gap between the mainstream (i.e. the State) [...]
22 July 2017 by AFP
East Timor votes for parliament amid huge challenges East Timor headed to the polls to elect a new parliament Saturday as Asia's youngest democracy battles economic challenges 15 years after gaining its independence from Indonesia. About 760,000 people are expected to cast their vot [...]
20 July 2017 by AFP
China orders tech firms to ramp up censorship China has ordered the country's biggest technology firms to immediately "rectify" violations and shut accounts that publish "bad information", in the latest move by authorities to tighten policing of the web. The Cyberspace Admini [...]
19 July 2017 by AFP
Thai general among officials jailed for human trafficking A Thai general, police officers and local politicians were among dozens jailed for human trafficking on Wednesday, many handed decades-long sentences, at a mass trial exposing official complicity in the grim trade in Rohingya and [...]
19 July 2017 by AFP
Thai smuggling crackdown leaves Myanmar's Rohingya in limbo Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, where disease and deprivation are rife and armed guards patrol a barbed-wire perimeter.  But after a crackdown [...]
18 July 2017 by Oliver Slow, Frontier
Myanmar villagers tell of abuses during crackdown in Rakhine Residents of villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State have told reporters of accounts of human rights abuses by security forces during clearance operations conducted in the aftermath of the October 9 attack on police outposts [...]
17 July 2017 by AFP
Afghan civilian deaths hit new high: UN The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst since records began, the United Nations said Monday. Deaths in the capital Kabul accounted for nearly 20 pe [...]
14 July 2017 by AFP
World reacts with praise, sadness to Liu death The world hailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo as a brave fighter for human rights after his death from cancer. Liu, a government critic and thorn in the side of the authorities for decades, died in custody, having been [...]
12 July 2017 by AFP
Myanmar slammed over visa refusal to UN Rohingya probe Aung San Suu Kyi's government in Myanmar risks getting bracketed with "pariah states" like North Korea and Syria over its refusal to grant visas to a UN team investigating the plight of Rohingya Muslims, activists said Wednesday. [...]