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Potential conscripts fear they could be forced to carry out atrocities or be used as human shields by the military

DILI, East Timor (THE WASHINGTON POST) – “For so long, nobody paid attention to us,” Xanana Gusmao, the prime minister of East Timor, said during an interview in the capital Dili. Two decades ago, freedom fighters on a mountainous island in southern Indonesia won a long, bloody struggle against a corrupt military regime, establishing East […]

International IDEA, one of the title partners in Asia Centre's 8th International Conference on ‘Democracy and elections in Asia’, will convene a panel titled ‘Perspectives and Prospects for future democratic elections in Myanmar', featuring speakers Debbie Stothard, Coordinator/Founder of ALTSEAN, Igor Blaževič, Head of Prague Civil Society Center, Thinzar Shunlei Yi, Advocacy

Rosalia Sciortino has made Southeast Asia her home and as an anthropologist and development sociologist is a prime mover in improving local and international awareness about the crisis in Myanmar.

Article: Pandemic is over but the fight to end corporate capture of healthcare intensifies - Please consider the below article based on insights from two leaders from Palestine and Burma who courageously have been exposing corporate capture in healthcare (even during the pandemic) and pushing governments who are negotiating a UN Treaty on Human Rights and Business to make it a strong mechanism to ensure corporate accountability and uphold human rights.