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Published in: HomeEthnic cleansing and the price of silenceFor years Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar by any means possible. It is time to re-examine theses advanced by...
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Published in: HomeWhen is a genocide a genocide?(Or, why is the world allowing the Rohingya to be slaughtered?) There is a genocide happening before our eyes. If...
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Published in: HomeThe end of anonymity? Trump and the tyranny of the majorityWorldwide, there is an administration-sanctioned attack on anonymity, online and off.
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Published in: 50.50The long road to gender equality in southeast AsiaSingapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from...
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Published in: HomeWhat does North Korea want?US-led war games may look like a defensive manoeuver to us, but from North Korea‘s perspective they do not look the same.
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Published in: HomeLiu Xiaobo and the struggle for democracyA moment of silence for Liu Xiaobo's death, and the cause of personal freedom in China.
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Published in: HomeIn Indonesia, the peasant struggle of Kendeng"We are ‘orang desa’ (country people), far from big cities. Maybe it’s hard for you to imagine that we work close to...
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Published in: 50.50The silencing of Leila de Lima – Duterte’s “first political prisoner”The Philippines senator’s detention is emblematic of ‘sneaking authoritarianism’ amid the president’s bloody war on...
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Published in: 50.50A fatwa against sexual violence: the story of a historic congress of female Islamic scholarsCan women interpret Islamic law? Scholars who think so recently gathered in Indonesia, where fatwas were also issued...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?A new international municipalist movement is on the rise – from small victories to global alternativesIn a world stuck between neoliberal crisis and authoritarianism, a reinvigorated municipalist movement is proving a...
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Published in: 50.50Inciting soldiers to rape in the PhilippinesDuterte offered immunity to soldiers that commit rape in the current anti-terror campaign in Mindanao. It could make...
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Published in: HomeMyanmar’s unique challengesOne year after Aung San Suu Kyi took office, Myanmar’s transition to democracy remains incomplete, and the country...
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Published in: HomeThe uses of Chinese philosophyThe work of Confucius is a political tool for China's one-party state. But ancient Chinese thought can still jolt...
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Published in: HomeTime for the west to fight for the exiledToday’s autocrats are displaying a growing audacity in their willingness to pursuing dissenters everywhere,...
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Published in: HomeDoing it the Malaysian wayEver since the wake-up call of 2008, and with more and more Malaysians online, the ruling coalition is well aware...
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Published in: HomeBack to the future: the rebirth of a classical approach to democracy and education in a post-modern societyEducation – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The IMF on inequality: beyond organised hypocrisy?So far, the nature of Christine Lagarde’s speeches and the discussions I had with Fund staff this week suggest that...
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Published in: HomeTrade union building in MyanmarBasically all unions demand a stronger sanctioning capacity for the Arbitration Council.
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Published in: HomeChina and the embarrassment of western democracyThe trouble for democracy does not come from Beijing, or from globalisation, or from abroad, or, in Britain, from...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow to make America great again? Bully Mexico.As President Trump concludes his first week in the White House with extremely protectionist policies, there will be...
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