Gender and climate change: Snapshots from Southeast Asia Published: 9 September 2021 Analysis Most regions in the world have been – to some extent – affected by climate change, and Southeast Asian countries are no exception. Within the group of people who are affected, recognition needs to be accentuated on the disproportionate impact of climate change along gender lines. By Tri Sulistyo Saputro
New Rights, Old Freedom Published: 2 November 2021 Poem Poetry is an important form of expression for everyday and social issues in Cambodia, providing an important voice in increasingly shrinking spaces. The award-winning poem by Chhoy Phanith gives insights into the aspirations and hopes of young Cambodians. By Chhoy Phanith
Decarbonization, the Southeast Asian Way Published: 29 September 2021 Background No Single Pathway. Southeast Asian countries’ targets and wish lists toward carbon neutrality are like individual recipes that use different ingredients in various ways, to produce the same dish (hopefully). By Johanna Son
“Quiet” Civic Engagement in Contemporary Visual Art from Cambodia Published: 12 October 2021 While political and social avenues for free speech are limited and prohibited, Cambodian visual artists find limitless forms of creative expression to critically examine many complex urban, social and environmental concerns. By Vuth Lyno
Tackling Asia’s Plastic Pollution Published: 4 June 2021 Community-based organizations and grassroots-led initiatives across Asia are addressing the growing threat of plastics pollution. Governments must now enact and properly implement policies and regulations to scale up these bottom-up efforts and hold plastics producers accountable. By Jed Alegado, Clemens Kunze and Kevin Li
"Climate killer cement" Published: 4 May 2021 Travelling exhibition The exhibition "Climate Killer Cement", designed by Save Kendeng and Watch Indonesia and produced with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, highlights on the one hand the impact of cement production and construction megaprojects on ecosystems and indigenous communities, but also aims to show positive local alternatives.
Will ASEAN End Up Going Greener after COVID-19? Published: 24 August 2020 Background While the answer to when, and if, the post-COVID era will come remains uncertain, it is clear that sustainability is back in centre stage - no longer as the hip slogan of the 90s - but as a survival need. By Johanna Son
COVID-19: Tips for a Saner Digital Diet in These Viral Times Published: 4 March 2020 Article A virus riding on another virus. That is how the ‘infodemic’ is raging in online spaces around the outbreak of the novel coronavirus called COVID-19, which has been on just about everyone’s radar since late January 2020. As grave as the quest to manage the respiratory disease and cure those ill with it is not only the challenge of using facts versus fear - but how to create and keep avenues of information that withstand the unrelenting drip of skewed, confused, partially true to totally false information, to racist and prejudiced views, or a cocktail of these. By Johanna Son
Human Rights Against Populism: A Progressive Response to the Politics of Duterte and Mahathir Published: 28 December 2018 Background As the world celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the region of Southeast Asia highlights two compelling political phenomena: the emergent ‘authoritarian populism’ and the return to the ‘Asian Values’. By Bonn Juego
Rethinking the Mobility (and Immobility) of Queer Rights in Southeast Asia: A Provocation Published: 26 December 2018 Background Seventy years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly. While all human beings are deemed born automatically free with equal rights, the very definition of human itself in practice is not always neutral. By Hendri Yulius