Combatting the risks of harm using a Do No Harm approach
This blog briefly introduces the Do No Harm approach throughout every stage of trafficking’s identification and justice process and announces its adoption by ASEAN.
Author highlights Asian slavery at Cape of Good Hope
In the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of people from what is now Indonesia and Malaysia were taken as slaves to the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.
Bangkok Photo Exhibit Portrays Plight of Myanmar Refugee
The United Nations estimates that nearly 1 million people have been internally displaced since the takeover and tens of thousands of people have either left the country or are camping along the 1,500-kilometer-long border with Thailand. Organized by SEA Junction, the work by photographers Yan Naing Aung, Zin Koko, media collective Visual Rebellion Myanmar, and Aung Naing Soe documents the plight of villagers displaced by the conflict between December 2021 and March 2022.
Lost in Translation: Linguistics, Cross-disciplinary and Beyond?
Translation and interpretation are commonly perceived in the linguistic sense, changing one language into another language. They however can refer to much beyond as the processes of converting something into a different form.
Aiming for a gender-transformative UHC agenda in Indonesia
At the 2019 High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), women’s groups and their allies successfully lobbied for the recognition of gender equity and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as critical to UHC
Par nos propres moyens : la Covid-19 en Asie du Sud-Est
L’Asie du Sud-Est est la première région à avoir été touchée par la Covid-19 après la Chine. Tout a commencé en janvier 2020 avec l’identification d’un premier cas en Thaïlande. Cette année-là, la plupart des pays de la région ont réussi à maîtriser la pandémie, mais les répercussions socio-économiques ont été profondes
On Our Own: COVID-19 in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia was the first region outside of China to be affected by COVID-19 following the identification of a first case in Thailand in January 2020. Although that year most of the region managed to keep the pandemic under control, the socio-economic impacts were severe as social life was disrupted and livelihoods lost
Gender and Age Inequality of Disaster Risk in Southeast Asia
Disaster risk is becoming increasingly complex, with risk drivers and consequences multiplying and colliding in unanticipated ways. Whilst mortality rates have decreased over the last decade, the overall number of people affected by disasters in terms of injury and disruption to livelihood appears to be growing.
Diversity and Change in Charitable Giving in Thailand
This paper examines the characteristics of charitable giving — including monetary, in-kind and in terms of voluntary time devoted to others — in Thailand today.
Stand for Democracy in Myanmar
The crisis in Myanmar is getting worse, and the international community, and all of us, need to do our part to rally support for the people of Burma, and against the military junta that is so cruelly repressing them.