Civil Society

'Civil Society' discusses issues such as freedom of speech, religious freedom, inequality and charity.

• Upholding the Human Rights of Manila's Urban Poor

  Redento B. Recio, Flora Asiddao-Santos, Rafael Vicente Dimalanta and Maria Mitzi Sumilang, Originally posted on Pursuit, 9 February 2023

• Talking Indonesia: Acknowledging Past Rights Violations

  Jemma Purdey, Originally posted on Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 2 February 2023

• Half-Hearted Progress: Religious Freedom After the New Criminal Code

  Zainal Abidin Bagir, Originally posted on Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 17 January 2023

• Talking Indonesia: The New Criminal Code

  Jemma Purdey, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 16 December 2022

• The New Criminal Code: Killing Off Living Law?

  Simon Butt, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 15 December 2022

• The New Criminal Code: Authoritarianism Disguised as Decolonisation

  Airlangga Pribadi Kusman, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 10 December 2022

• Indonesian Courts Rule to Protect the Work Rights of People with Disability

  Dina Afrianty, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 5 December 2022

• The State Regulation of Faith-Based Civil Society Organisations in India

  Ananya Pattnaik and Sarbeswar Sahoo, Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 22 November 2022

• The End of Police Reform

  Jacqui Baker, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 15 November 2022

• Talking Indonesia: Police Reform

  Jemma Purdey, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 10 November 2022

• Talking Indonesia: The Sexual Violence Law

  Jacqui Baker, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 22 September 2022

• Reimagining Human Mobility in Asia Pacific After COVID-19: The Challenge of Expanding Human Rights-Based Entry and Stay Pathways

  Pia Oberoi, Originally posted on Melbourne Asia Review, 5 September 2022

• How Can Indonesia Better Protect the Rights of Oil Palm Smallholder Farmers?

  Nabhan Aiqani, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 24 August 2022

• Indonesia’s Last Chance for a Progressive Criminal Code

  Anugerah Rizki Akbari and Genoveva Alicia KS Maya, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 18 August 2022

• Talking Indonesia: Art and Offence

  Jemma Purdey, Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 4 August 2022

• Advancing the Rights of LGBTIQ People in Southeast Asia

  Anthony J Langlois, Originally posted on Asialink, 20 June 2022

• How the Law in the Maldives Paved the Way for a Sunni Legal Tradition

  Shamsul Falaah
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 6 June 2022

• Afghanistan’s Laws and Legal Institutions Under the Taliban

  Haroun Rahimi
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 6 June 2022

• Islamic Challenges to Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Law

  Jeffrey A. Redding
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 6 June 2022

• Indonesia Finally has a Law to Protect Victims of Sexual Violence. But the Struggle Is Not Over Yet.

  Tunggal Pawestri and Tim Mann
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 20 April 2022

• Talking Indonesia: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  Jacqui Baker
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 19 April 2022

• Another Marriage Law Controversy: Is Reform Overdue?

  Laras Susanti
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 29 March 2022

• Fake News and the Pandemic in Southeast Asia

  Robert Smith and Mark Perry, Originally posted on the Australian Journal of Asian Law, 21 March 2022

• Mural Controversies Expose the Poor Health of Indonesian Democracy

  Maidina Rahmawati and Erasmus at Napitupulu
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 23 August 2021

• COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Much More Than a Health Crisis

  Gabriel Facal, Ian Wilson, Khoo Ying Hooi, Rosalia Sciortino and Sarah Andrieu
  Originally posted on The Conversation, 21 August 2021

• India's Vaccine Rollout is Ignoring the Many Inequalities in its Society

  Rajib Dasgupta
  Originally posted on The Conversation, 30 July 2021

• COVID-19: Trends in Private Social Investment in Asia

  23 July 2021

• COVID-19: Philanthropy, Justice and Law

  22 July 2021

• Silenced in China: The COVID ‘Truth-Tellers’ and Political Dissent

  Tao Zhang
  Originally posted on The Conversation, 17 July 2021

• Nepal's Democracy in Peril

  Youba Raj Acharya and Prema Bista Thapa
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 29 June 2021

• Sexual Violence, Conflict and COVID-19: An Invisible Pandemic

  Vincent Ochilet
  Originally posted on Asialink Insights, 22 June 2021

• Dual Pandemics: COVID-19 and Disinformation in Indonesia - A Conversation with GGF 2035 Fellow Nurma Fitrianingrum

  Nurma Fitrianingrum
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 15 June 2021

• Twitter and Digital Diplomacy: China and COVID-19

  Chris Alden and Kennedrick Chan
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 9 June 2021

• Fighting Platforms and the People, not the Pandemic: #ResignModi and Disinformation Governance in India – An Update

  Maximilian Beyer and Sangeeta Mahapatra
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 7 June 2021

• India’s New Intermediary Guidelines: The Gloves Come Off in the Assault on Civil Liberties

  Tanmay Singh and Abhinav Sekhri
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 1 June 2021

• Lesson Learnt: Indonesia’s Second Eid al-Fitri Under COVID-19

  Syafiq Hasyim
  Originally posted on Asialink Insights, 24 May 2021

• India Cannot Breathe. Is The Media Choking It Further?

  Ruhi Khan and Danish Khan
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 7 May 2021

• The State Advances, the People Retreat: China’s Political and Legal Responses to COVID-19

  Xin He
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 4 May 2021

• The Philippines a Year under Lockdown: Continuing Executive Dominance, Threats to Democracy, and Unclear Pandemic Response

  Maria Ela L. Atienza
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 26 April 2021

• Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Year in Review

  Ridwanul Hoque
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 25 March 2021

• One Year After the Pandemic in Indonesia: From Health Crisis to the Crisis of Constitutional Democracy

  Abdurrachman Satrio and Mohammad Ibrahim
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 15 March 2021

• Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and Children and Vulnerable Populations

  Annisa Beta
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 11 March 2021

• Surviving Executive-Led Pandemic Control in Executive-Led Hong Kong: A Year in Review

  Pui-yin Lo
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 3 March 2021

• Mandatory Vaccination Will Not Solve Indonesia’s COVID-19 Problem

  Usman Hamid
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 23 February 2021

• Breeding More Social Turbulence? – Thailand’s Unprepared Response to the Second Wave of COVID-19

  Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang and Rawin Leelapatana
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 23 February 2021

• Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and Religious Leaders

  Charlotte Setijadi
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 24 December 2020

• Pandemics, Politics and Principles: Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia in a Time of Crisis

  Andrew Rosser, Kate Macdonald and Ken M.P. Setiawan
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 23 August 2020

• COVID-19 and Charity Law in China

  Matthew Harding and Hui Jing
  Video produced by Asian Law Centre, 30 July 2020

• INTERVIEW—COVID-19 and Belt and Road: Some of the Issues Impacting Business and Human Rights

  Niranjan Sahoo
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 14 July 2020

• Early Warning Signs of Abusive Constitutionalism in Indonesia: Pandemic as Pretext

  Stefanus Hendrianto
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 20 June 2020

• The Militarized Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: An Escalating Threat to Human Rights

  Michael Yusingco and Angelika Pizarro
  Originally posted on the IACL-AIDC Blog, 18 June 2020

• A Secular Need, COVID-19 and the Persistence of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India

  Jeff Redding, Farrah Ahmed and Rohit De
  Webinar Recording produced by Asian Law Centre, 10 June 2020

• Webinar Recording - Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19

  David Manne, Elaine Pearson and John Tobin
  Produced by Melbourne Law School, 4 June 2020

• INTERVIEW: COVID-19 will Set Back the Cause of Women’s Rights in Indonesia

  Atnike Nova Sigiro
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 3 June 2020

• The Indian Travel Ban is Overbroad

  Thulasi K. Raj, 21 May 2020

• Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and the Poor and Vulnerable

  Linda Rae Bennett
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 7 May 2020

• Coronavirus and the Constitution – XXI: The Mandatory Imposition of the Aarogya Setu App

  Vasudev Devadasan and Gautam Bhatia
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 2 May 2020

• When Religion Meets COVID-19 in Indonesia: More than a Matter of Conservatives and Moderates

  Nadirsyah Hosen
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 29 April 2020

• COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Is Free Speech the next Victim?

  Gehan Gunatilleke
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 16 April 2020

• Women Leaders in the Asia-Pacific have more to offer in Fighting COVID-19

  Mohammad Naciri
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 14 April 2020

• COVID-19, Inequality and Jakarta’s Urban Poor: Resilient, but at Great Risk

  Ian Wilson
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 11 April 2020

• Indonesia’s Lockdown Dilemma: Mudik is a Safety Net for Some, but may worsen the COVID-19 Public Health Disaster

  Belinda Spagnoletti
  Originally posted on the Indonesia at Melbourne Blog, 6 April 2020

• Coronavirus and the Media: In Times of Crisis, a Democracy needs a Free Press more than Ever

  Sadanand Dhume
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 4 April 2020

• Coronavirus and the Constitution – VI: On the Freedom of Movement

  Gautam Bhatia
  Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM, which curates and publishes analysis of COVID-19's impact on democracy worldwide, 30 March 2020

• The Biggest Cost of the COVID-19 Virus in China could be Freedom

  Delia Lin
  Originally posted on the Melbourne Asia Review, 6 March 2020