U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet urged Bangladesh’s government to probe alleged enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and torture committed by state-backed agencies, as she called on Wednesday for reforms to the nation’s security sector
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet advised Rohingya to wait for repatriation because the present situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine state is not stable, according to refugees who met with her at camps in southeastern Bangladesh on Tuesday
Explosions from landmines killed a soldier and injured six police officers and four civilians in Thailand’s troubled Deep South on Monday, including a farmer who lost both her legs in the twin attack at a rubber plantation, authorities said
Unidentified assailants fatally shot two Rohingya leaders as they returned home after overseeing community night-watch duties at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, police said Wednesday
The first trains for Indonesia’s Beijing-backed high-speed rail line are being shipped from China, the Ministry of Transportation said Friday as questions linger about who should pay for a U.S. $2 billion cost overrun that has beset the controversial project
An appeal court on Friday overturned a ruling seen as a victory for women that for the first time would have allowed Malaysian mothers married to foreign men to pass citizenship to their children born overseas
Leaders of the influential Catholic Church and others are criticizing a new film that depicts the last 72 hours of the Marcos regime in 1986, panning it as a piece of historical revisionism by the family now back in power in the Philippines
Bangladesh was deprived of nearly U.S. $2 billion in monthly remittances sent via legitimate banking channels because expatriate workers instead used a black market transfer method called Hundi to send money home, the finance minister told reporters on Wednesday
New President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday shot down calls from human rights groups for the Philippines to rejoin the International Criminal Court, saying the country could conduct its own investigations into deaths related to his predecessor’s drug wars ¹
Efforts to remove and destroy firearms belonging to former Muslim separatist guerrillas – as required by a 2014 peace deal – have failed to make the southern Philippines much safer from gun violence, a conflict monitoring group is reporting