Women studying STEM field in India: A General Overview
In India out of 100 students, the 29% of girls and boys drop out of school without finishing the elementary cycle and 20million of children between the ages of 3…
Palestine: The Role of Women in Conflict
In common thinking, we believe women to be strangers to war. Although they are generally far from the battle lines, in most cases they bear the full brunt of the…
The Humanitarian Catastrophe of the War in Yemen and the Conflicting Interests at Stake
Since the 2011 Houthi insurgence, the State of Yemen is trapped in a spiral of violence that ultimately escalated into a bloody civil war, which is of global concern since…
Defending Human Rights: Can it be Done Through Economic Cooperation?
The conclusion of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) on 30 December 2020, after 6 years of negotiations, brought a lot of attention to the human rights violations that…
Detentions in Syria
It all began with the teenagers from Daara, a city in Southern Syria, who were responsible for the graffiti reading “Next it’s your turn, doctor” in March 2011. The choice…
A Backgrounder on Myanmar’s tryst with democracy
It’s another Monday morning on the streets of Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw and fitness instructor Khing Hnin Wai is buoyantly performing her aerobics routine to Indonesian techno-pop as she prepares for…
A thirst yet to be quenched. Myanmar’s lost democracy.
On 1st February 2021, the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) released a statement; Citing article 417 of the constitution, which ‘permits’ a military takeover of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of…
Iran’s use of punitive amputations and International Human Rights Law
The Islamic Republic of Iran has earned a bad reputation for the mistreatment of prisoners and for arbitrarily detaining hundreds of human rights activists. As a matter of fact, physical…
Death Toll Continues to Rise in Duterte’s Violent Anti-drug Campaign
Last week another drug bust attempt by police against drug dealers in the Philippines led to violence and at least thirteen people dead. These types of raids and the hardline…
Women Social Security and Challenges in Afghanistan
A prerequisite for any economic, social, cultural and political development is a sense of security – especially the security of a woman. Awareness of such sense among inhabitants of a…
Not fit for purpose: Afghanistan’s broken judiciary
The Afghan justice system is in a state of disrepair, with corruption rife within both the judicial system and the government. Following the reconstruction of the judiciary in the post…
Peace for Asia condemns the targeted blast of Peace Ministry vehicle in Kabul
On February 1, 2021, the vehicle of Khushnood Nabizada was targeted with IED explosive devices. Reports have so far declared that there have been no casualties as of now. The…
Economic ruin: A symptom of Covid-19 in the DPRK
If the Kim Jong Un regime is to be believed, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is one of the few countries which has not experienced a wide-scale outbreak of…