Ending police violence: The Jakarta Post
Petty officers demanding or accepting bribes from traffic regulation offenders has remained ubiquitous. We also often find the police launching investigations only after a case…
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Water crisis affecting coastal women disproportionately: The Daily Star
According to a recent report, over 40 lakh people across the southern coast are facing a freshwater crisis with the women being the biggest sufferers, as they are the ones who…
Online gambling epidemic: The Jakarta Post
Online and offline gambling are crimes punishable by a prison term in Indonesia, as is organizing a gambling event. But with the increase of access to technology and smart…
The cost of free speech: The Kathmandu Post
After a 14-year-long ordeal, involving a seven-year asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and a five-year incarceration in the high-security Belmarsh Prison, Julian Assange,…
From people to a ‘bubble’
Awami League today is its own judge and jury. It only speaks to the mirror because it cannot tolerate the retort that would come if it spoke to the people. It listens only to its…
Positive feelers: Dawn
The Pakistani administration has lately sent out positive public feelers, perhaps to gauge the mood in New Delhi. DPM Dar recently called for “good-neighbourly relations” with…
Crime of torture: Dawn
Pakistan finds itself among those countries where torture is accepted as the norm. This shameful practice is rampant as a means to coerce, terrorise, and dehumanise people,…
Fatal air: Dawn
A recent report by HEI and IHME — organisations focusing on health research — in collaboration with Unicef, states that, globally, almost 2,000 children succumb to air…
National disgrace: The Kathmandu Post
In yet another instance of the Nepali society failing to provide a safe space to women, a 16-year girl was raped in Panchadewal Binayak Municipality in Achham. The victim was…
Clamp down on online misogyny against female leaders: The Daily Star
The political landscape has generally been unfavourable for women due to the age-old bias that politics is the realm of men. So, when women defy social norms to participate in…