Migrants’ lives matter more than their remittances: The Daily Star
Migrant workers deserve protection, dignity, and justice.
Nepal’s migrating doctors
For every 3,000 people, there is just one doctor. The situation is worse in rural areas.
Kuala Lumpur is drowning, and selfishness to blame
The blatant disregard for regulations has turned our drainage system into a convenient shortcut, at the expense of public safety.
Victimised twice over: Philippine Daily Inquirer
Fake news, disinformation, and online abuse, long a mainstay of the Duterte years, spiked to fresh heights against families of drug war victims in the wake of Mr. Duterte’s…
Address it early: The Kathmandu Post
With teachers announcing strikes, government inaction would jeopardise the future of countless students.
Watching South Korea’s early education fever
The difficulty of the entrance exam for 5 or 6-year-old children to enter a prime English academy is said to be at the 10th grade level, and some of the questions are as difficult…
Of women’s rights and global chauvinism
Less than 20 percent of key politicians at the national and local levels in India are women. Yet, there has been some progress due to welcome changes of laws, policies and…
Women’s rights: Dawn
The courts alone cannot change society, but if the message they are sending is heard by all, it could trigger positive change.
Why Idul Fitri is a moment of joy for Catholics, too
Idul Fitri deeply connects with interreligious love, forging reconciliation, charity, respect for diversity and shared human values.
Eid amidst crises: Dawn
As we celebrate, let us not forget the people of occupied Palestine and Kashmir, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and other Muslim-majority regions whose lives have been shattered by…