Cambodia’s environmental activists: Internationally awarded, but murdered at home
THE Cambodian public and netizens cheered last week, when activist and human rights lawyer Ouch Leng was awarded the prestigious Goldman...
Cambodia’s invisible children: Government ‘unaware’ of half of orphanages
ORPHANAGES in Cambodia are often operated without government’s knowledge and therefore tens of thousands of children are invisible to the...
Cambodia’s beach tourism clean-up comes at a high price for locals
TOURISM is an ever growing sector in Kingdom of Cambodia, which welcomes more and more foreign arrivals each season, reaching more than...
To become adult, Maasai women pay a bitter price
Pauline was 13 years old, when she had been circumcised as tradition required. The purification ritual allows girls to become women and...
Atentáty v Bangkoku: domnienky a nekompetentnosť
Takéto útoky si Bangkok nepamätá. Aj keď 12-miliónová thajská metropola už zažila momenty napätia, politického násilia i menšie nálože,...
The Sok Bun assault and violence against women in Cambodia
It took one real estate tycoon and a TV celebrity to bring the daily reality for many women in Cambodia under an unprecedented spotlight....
Transgender activist takes on Thai university in battle for LGBT rights
“Thais like to consume transgender people, but are far from accepting them as equal.” We met in a park in one of the upcoming hipster...
Rozvojová pomoc na najchudobnejšie krajiny zabúda. Slovensko nie je výnimkou
Správa Organizácie pre ekonomickú spoluprácu a rozvoj upozorňuje na pokles rozvojovej pomoci najmenej rozvinutým krajinám. Skupina...
Barma: Zo zábleskov pokroku búrka nebola. Ticho mrholí.
Flickers of progress – tieto slová amerického prezidenta Baracka Obama z prvej návštevy Barmy v roku 2011 sa zapísali do histórie...
Ryža naša každodenná: Sága politiky a moci v Ázii
Henry Kissinger kedysi povedal, že ten, kto ovláda potraviny, má moc aj nad ľuďmi. Platí to aj o ryži, ktorá je životodarnou silou v...
