Mr Yunupingu was an Aboriginal musician, songwriter and campaigner who fought many battles - most of which he won. As the frontman of Yothu Yindi, he pushed indigenous music beyond Australian borders and gained a glo ...

The Asian Human Rights Commission are reporting that seven West Papuan men were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and interrogated, in two separate incidents, by Indonesian police on February 15th, 2013. ...

There is strong evidence that Sombath, a prominent 60-year-old social activist, was forcibly disappeared by Laotian authorities more than two months ago. The Lao government’s long silence about Sombath Somphone’s ...

I think it's important to state intentions -especially in these times. The world is in a critical state -it's time to wake from complacency, apathy, and criticism. It's time to show Love and do! ...

Poverty has its roots firmly placed in many parts of ASEAN member nations, and Thailand is no exception. Child poverty, whether urban or rural, have caused a displacement of strategies and misguided interventions. Th ...

AK Rockefeller, reduces the fear of being alone, produces a vigor of solidarity, particularly when one faces the shadow of the approaching might of the Institution. We discard the veils, we stand tall or crouch in p ...

Bangkok, I am back in the metropolis of 12 million people. Someone had mentioned that the population could easily reach as high as 14 million with the daily migration of people from other provinces and migrant worker ...

Bakchos was attacked by four men, he had a pillowcase placed over his head, a noose around his neck and petrol poured over him, whilst all sorts of abuse were hurled in his direction, including terms such as ‘nigge ...

By abandoning the great illusion, we come to terms with ourselves through hardship and perseverance, and we embrace the reality that our immortality starts when others change their behaviors in response to our selfle ...

Can @PurePapua achieve what he and many others have decided decades ago? West Papuans risk their lives, their families, their livelihood, their way of life ~ they risk everything, to be free from the yoke of slavery, ...

De Norte a Sur de Este a Oeste… #TapiaBankia cueste lo que cueste. ...

Reporters Without Borders is concerned by a series of media freedom violations in Indonesia in the past few days. ...

As it has in the rest of the world, social media and the sudden explosion of mobile phone technology is bringing about profound changes in PNG culture, and its impact on politics is only beginning to be explored and ...

An Indonesian court on Monday indicted five Papuan activists for treason for raising an outlawed Papuan flag and declaring the region independent. The men, who led a peaceful pro-independence celebration attended by ...

ASEAN, the consortium of South East Asian nations was formed in 1967, and we are now living at the start of 2012. What pressing issues do they emphasize every year? Simple. Economic power and how to sustain it. ...

From the earliest days to the present, activists have been deeply moved by beauty in all its forms: in music, language and art, in the innocence of children, in Nature, and in the bravery of the elderly. Beauty stirs ...

Since the insurgency began in the 1980s, local people started going missing. By now, it is estimated that the total number of people missing in Jammu and Kashmir amounts to over 10,000. ...

The protests and the riots. What were the powerful motives that induced human beings to proceed on such self-hazardous undertakings? ...

Has the Malaysian government been consistent in defining and prioritizing developmental issues, such as eradicating poverty and homelessness? ...

Xi Jinping is still some two years away from taking over as President of China- but already he is playing up his xenophobic, colonialist credentials by publicly threatening to “smash” separatism in Tibet. ...