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Myanmar’s Civil War: A Nation in Crisis
Crimes against humanity, a deepening hunger crisis and more than 2,600 rebel groups: Myanmar’s civil war is both brutal and bewildering....
Philippines: Duterte-era mass murders exposed
Human Rights Watch Justice Department Should Investigate, Properly Charge Implicated Officials Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte...
ASEAN tries to ‘make Myanmar junta presentable’
With Laos as chair, the 10 members of ASEAN appear to be becoming more accommodative of reviled military regime. By Thompson Chau General...
Malaysia Country Report 2023
One boat out of 270 Rohingya refugees detained by Malaysian Navy after weeks at sea Source: BBC Genocide Watch: Malaysia January 2023 By...
ASEAN Holds Summit in Cambodia
COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS by Joshua Kurlantzick November 15, 2022 President Biden's attendance marks an important development in the...
Vietnam and Thailand abstain in UN on Russia’s Ukraine annexation
By RFA Vietnamese and Subel Rai Bhandari and Nontarat Phaicharoen for BenarNews 2022.10.13 Vietnamese state media on reported on the U.N....
Cuba Family Code: legalizes same-sex marriage
By: BBC A man casts his ballot on Sunday in Havana Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum. About...
Iraq: Alarm over proposed law banning homosexuality
By Alex MacDonald Legislation would allow anti-LGBTQ+ groups to 'get away with murder,' warn rights campaigners Activists from pro-LGBT...
UK trans people don’t feel safe on the street
Majority of Brits would support family coming out – but trans people don’t feel safe on the street.
Police arrest protesters during Istanbul Pride march
Journalist among those detained after city's governor bans march for seventh consecutive year, citing security concerns A demonstrator...
Country Report: Poland
By Faith Marie Stahl In the 2020 Polish presidential elections, Andrzej Duda of the Law and Justice Party, was re-elected. Poland’s...
LGBTQ South Africans Demand Justice After Hate Crime Wave
Four gay men have been murdered in South Africa in less than a month. Getty Images By OLIVER HAUG | April 21, 2021 Lonwabo Jack, a...
Tanzania: President Magufuli’s Death Should Open New Chapter
Over the past six years, President Magufuli oversaw abusive laws and policies that seriously undermined human rights in Tanzania.
LGBT rights: New threat for Poland's 'rainbow families'
Adam Easton / BBC News, Warsaw Thirteen-year-old Pola is one of an estimated 50,000 children in Poland being raised by same-sex couples....
Poland's 'LGBT-free zones' could lead to hate crimes and violence, rights group warns
Reported hate crimes against LGBT people more than doubled to 150 in 2019.
Chechnya opens terror inquiry into gay men forcibly returned from Moscow
The Russian LGBT Network is concerned for their safety, citing other cases when men were brought back to Chechnya only to disappear or die.
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