Child marriage in Southeast Asia In late October, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad issued a directive to state officials: raise the minimum age for marriage to eighteen...
Climate change in South Asia Climate change is already having big effects on southern Asia. Deadly heat waves like one that killed 3,500 people in India and Pakistan in 2015...
‘Red Sand’ project spotlights trafficking "We can’t merely walk over the most marginalized people in our communities — those who fall through the metaphoric cracks." From forced marriage...
Orphanage ‘tourism’ draws scrutiny To people in the U.S., an orphanage sounds like an outdated concept. Many of us only remember seeing them in movies like “Annie” Orphanages...
Rohingya crisis in Myanmar after attacks Just two years ago, once-isolated Myanmar seemed firmly on a new course. Longtime opposition Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate and Myanmar state...
The business of poaching Might your children or grandchildren someday live in a world without rhinoceroses or African elephants? The chances of that are probably higher...
Shining a light on Rohingya refugees "It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in." When she was 11, Hasina Begum was shot in the back. She had found herself in the...
Myanmar’s Rohingya face ‘ethnic cleansing’ Tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar in recent months amidst a campaign by the South Asian nation's military against the religious...
Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines The Philippines is in the midst of a spectacularly brutal war on drugs. The man behind it is the President Rodrigo Duterte, who took office June...
Philippines press leader speaks out on bloodshed "Most of those who've been killed so far in the drug war come from the very same social strata to whom appealed most... the poor." Philippines'...
