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Published in: HomeTuol Sleng: prison-museum of Cambodia's genocideA visit to the Khmer Rouge's death chamber seeds reflection on past and present alike.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn community philanthropy, relying on existing local institutions is the answer‘Assuming the fact that local communities have a better understanding of what their exigencies and needs are, is...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHorse trading in the UNThe leading candidate to succeed Mr. Ban Ki-Moon as new Secretary General of the UN is former Portuguese PM Antonio...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEliminating malaria for goodMalaria is widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is commonly associated with poverty and has...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWorld poverty: the misconceptions of the winner of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsPoverty is not an individual problem of lack of resources that can be solved through education. The problem is the...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka and the politics of justiceTruth and reconciliation is a project which inevitably needs to balance short term politics against long term...
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Published in: HomeRoadmap to reconciliation: 4 post-election challenges for Sri Lanka
Muscular Sinhalese nationalism was defeated at the polls in Sri Lanka. The dismantling of the security state,...
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Published in: openSecurityNepal: chronicle of a disaster foretoldThe Nepalese earthquake was a product of natural causes. But the full death toll and slow recovery are not.
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Published in: openSecurityIndonesia regresses with the use of the death penaltyThe prospect of execution of two Australians in Indonesia has caught international media attention, amid Australian...
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Published in: openSecuritySpace shrinking for freedom of expression in South Korea‘National security’ is often the card played by states denying human rights. With the North Korean dictatorship next...
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Published in: openSecurityTensions rise between India and PakistanInternational constraint and mutual nuclear deterrence may have prevented all-out war with Pakistan in the past over...
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Published in: openSecurity“There was so much fear”The outworking of the eight-year-old peace agreement in Nepal has embraced the government and its Maoist opponents....
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Published in: openSecurityMyanmar: the human-rights story behind the spinThe authorities in Nay Pyi Taw are steering the former authoritarian pariah state to open engagement with the world....
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Published in: HomeBurma: the clash of church, state and society
Burma's government and political leaders are now paying a bitter price for allowing the reform process to be...
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Published in: openSecurityArrested democracy: why Thailand needs a new social contractThe Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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Published in: HomeEurope freezes, Eurasia pivots
Behind the crisis in Ukraine lie deeper changes that are transforming the global economic and and political order,...
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Published in: openSecurityRana Plaza: the struggle continuesA year after the huge loss of mainly-female Bangladeshi garment workers’ lives at Rana Plaza, unions are still...
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka inquiry: a Tamil asylum-seeker speaksAs an international inquiry on the bloodshed in Sri Lanka in 2009 looms, one Tamil asylum-seeker explains why it...
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Published in: HomeAmerica's chimerical pivot
The United States's shift towards Asia is being tested by global economic realities, say Ernesto Gallo & Giovanni Biava.
