Displaced by war, three Rohingya women living in camps and detention centres in the country share their resettlement dreams ...

Lasting reforms will be needed in Bangladesh to stop abuses, with the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad ...

Myanmar's electricity generation has dropped to about half the normal figure, as rebels have damaged critical transmission networks, causing lengthy blackouts in wide swathes of the South Asian nation ...

Residents of Mullivaikkal, a coastal village in Sri Lanka's Northern Province, rescued 112 Rohingya refugees, including 25 children, from a sinking boat, and welcomed them. Despite this, the ...

BANGKOK - In an uneven year for democracy and rights globally the Asia-Pacific region saw some encouraging signs Human Rights ...

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus, has set up a commission to investigate enforced disappearances and pledged reforms and accountability for rights abuses ...

At a time when some are questioning the relevance of human rights and the rules-based order, Asia witnessed some extraordinary demonstrations of "people power" in 2024.

The world saw a terrible genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, in Asia, in 2017, the ...

Since the early 2010s, over a million Rohingyas have found refuge in Bangladesh. A Muslim minority persecuted in their native ...

"For us, citizenship alone will never be enough. We are calling for a process of reconciliation, reckoning, and truth-telling ...

Thank God, we have survived another year of genocide, war, destruction and climate crisis. The passing year of 2024 has been a mixture of hope and despair. It began with some hope as the International ...