India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education

by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...

Posted by Priyanka Bhardwaj on February 1, 2010 12:23 AM

Hit or Miss: Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers Seek Financial Security Abroad

by Stine Eckert - USA - When the Malaysian government expelled Bangladeshi migrant workers from the country in 1998 because it needed jobs for its own people, 32-year old Sheikh Rumana was one of them – after having worked under...

Posted by Stine Eckert on September 21, 2009 12:00 AM

Modern Malaysia Grapples with Islamization

by Mahi Ramakrishnan - Malaysia - Eight years ago I followed the Muslim religious authorities, dubbed the morality police, on a raid in Malaysia's federal capital, Kuala Lumpur for an article I was writing on the religious body and its...

Posted by Mahi Ramakrishnan on September 9, 2009 12:00 AM

Burma’s Junta Targets Women in Human Rights Violations:
“I am taken away from my children”

by Cheery Zahau - Burma / India - Burma has become well known to the world, not with good reason but for its worsening human rights violations perpetrated by the military junta ruling the country. According to Amnesty International, the...

Posted by Cheery Zahau on October 30, 2008 2:00 PM