Civil Society
'Civil Society' discusses issues such as freedom of speech, religious freedom, inequality and charity.
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Indonesian civil society shows resilience in the face of ‘activist hunt’ crackdown
Eryanto Nugroho
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Bangladesh signals that no leader is above the law by sentencing Sheikh Hasina to death
Shahzad Uddin
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Draconian and illiberal: Indonesia’s new KUHAP is worse than the old one
Maidina Rahmawati
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A year of protests: what 2025 says about Indonesian democracy
Ary Hermawan
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Why is Prabowo pushing for legislation to counter disinformation and foreign propaganda?
Jesslyn Giovanni and Ary Hermawan
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Indonesian police arrested hundreds after August riots, sending a chill through civil society
Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun and Tim Lindsey
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How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to social media ban
Nir Kshetri
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Who speaks for the riot? Youth agency and the contest over protest narratives
Ian Wilson
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The battle of the giants: How elite conflicts turn Indonesian protests into mass riots
Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, Ary Hermawan and Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
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Eighty years on, Indonesian indigenous peoples still face the ‘imperial boomerang’
Justito Adiprasetio
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Thailand’s judiciary is flexing its muscles, but away from PM’s plight, dozens of activists are at the mercy of capricious courts
Tyrell Haberkorn
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Can 'enemies of the state' be acquitted? The rule of law in Hong Kong
John P. Burns
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Upholding the Human Rights of Manila's Urban Poor
Redento B. Recio, Flora Asiddao-Santos, Rafael Vicente Dimalanta and Maria Mitzi Sumilang
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Talking Indonesia: Acknowledging Past Rights Violations
Jemma Purdey
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Half-Hearted Progress: Religious Freedom After the New Criminal Code
Zainal Abidin Bagir
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Talking Indonesia: The New Criminal Code
Jemma Purdey
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The New Criminal Code: Killing Off Living Law?
Simon Butt
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The New Criminal Code: Authoritarianism Disguised as Decolonisation
Airlangga Pribadi Kusman
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Indonesian Courts Rule to Protect the Work Rights of People with Disability
Dina Afrianty
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The State Regulation of Faith-Based Civil Society Organisations in India
Ananya Pattnaik and Sarbeswar Sahoo
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The End of Police Reform
Jacqui Baker
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Talking Indonesia: Police Reform
Jemma Purdey
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Talking Indonesia: The Sexual Violence Law
Jacqui Baker
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Reimagining Human Mobility in Asia Pacific After COVID-19: The Challenge of Expanding Human Rights-Based Entry and Stay Pathways
Pia Oberoi
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How Can Indonesia Better Protect the Rights of Oil Palm Smallholder Farmers?
Nabhan Aiqani
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Indonesia’s Last Chance for a Progressive Criminal Code
Anugerah Rizki Akbari and Genoveva Alicia KS Maya
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Talking Indonesia: Art and Offence
Jemma Purdey
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Advancing the Rights of LGBTIQ People in Southeast Asia
Anthony J Langlois
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Islamic Challenges to Pakistan’s Transgender Rights Law
Jeffrey A. Redding
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Afghanistan’s Laws and Legal Institutions Under the Taliban
Haroun Rahimi
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How the Law in the Maldives Paved the Way for a Sunni Legal Tradition
Shamsul Falaah
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Indonesia Finally has a Law to Protect Victims of Sexual Violence. But the Struggle Is Not Over Yet.
Tunggal Pawestri and Tim Mann
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Talking Indonesia: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Jacqui Baker
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Another Marriage Law Controversy: Is Reform Overdue?
Laras Susanti
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Fake News and the Pandemic in Southeast Asia
Robert Smith and Mark Perry
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Mural Controversies Expose the Poor Health of Indonesian Democracy
Maidina Rahmawati and Erasmus at Napitupulu
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India's Vaccine Rollout is Ignoring the Many Inequalities in its Society
Rajib Dasgupta
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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Much More Than a Health Crisis
Gabriel Facal, Ian Wilson, Khoo Ying Hooi, Rosalia Sciortino and Sarah Andrieu
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Silenced in China: The COVID ‘Truth-Tellers’ and Political Dissent
Tao Zhang
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Nepal's Democracy in Peril
Youba Raj Acharya and Prema Bista Thapa | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Sexual Violence, Conflict and COVID-19: An Invisible Pandemic
Vincent Ochilet
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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
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Twitter and Digital Diplomacy: China and COVID-19
Chris Alden and Kennedrick Chan | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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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
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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
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Lesson Learnt: Indonesia’s Second Eid al-Fitri Under COVID-19
Syafiq Hasyim
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India Cannot Breathe. Is The Media Choking It Further?
Ruhi Khan and Danish Khan | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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The State Advances, the People Retreat: China’s Political and Legal Responses to COVID-19
Xin He | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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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
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Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Year in Review
Ridwanul Hoque | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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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
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Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and Children and Vulnerable Populations
Annisa Beta
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Surviving Executive-Led Pandemic Control in Executive-Led Hong Kong: A Year in Review
Pui-yin Lo | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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Mandatory Vaccination Will Not Solve Indonesia’s COVID-19 Problem
Usman Hamid
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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
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Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and Religious Leaders
Charlotte Setijadi
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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
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COVID-19 and Charity Law in China
Matthew Harding and Hui Jing
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INTERVIEW—COVID-19 and Belt and Road: Some of the Issues Impacting Business and Human Rights
Niranjan Sahoo
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Early Warning Signs of Abusive Constitutionalism in Indonesia: Pandemic as Pretext
Stefanus Hendrianto | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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The Militarized Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines: An Escalating Threat to Human Rights
Michael Yusingco and Angelika Pizarro
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Webinar Recording - Human Rights in the Time of COVID-19
David Manne, Elaine Pearson and John Tobin
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INTERVIEW: COVID-19 will Set Back the Cause of Women’s Rights in Indonesia
Atnike Nova Sigiro
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A Secular Need, COVID-19 and the Persistence of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India
Jeff Redding, Farrah Ahmed and Rohit De
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The Indian Travel Ban is Overbroad
Thulasi K. Raj
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Talking Indonesia: COVID-19 and the Poor and Vulnerable
Linda Rae Bennett
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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
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When Religion Meets COVID-19 in Indonesia: More than a Matter of Conservatives and Moderates
Nadirsyah Hosen
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Women Leaders in the Asia-Pacific have more to offer in Fighting COVID-19
Mohammad Naciri
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COVID-19, Inequality and Jakarta’s Urban Poor: Resilient, but at Great Risk
Ian Wilson
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Indonesia’s Lockdown Dilemma: Mudik is a Safety Net for Some, but may worsen the COVID-19 Public Health Disaster
Belinda Spagnoletti
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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
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Coronavirus and the Constitution – VI: On the Freedom of Movement
Gautam Bhatia | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Is Free Speech the next Victim?
Gehan Gunatilleke | Co-posted in collaboration with COVID-DEM
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The Biggest Cost of the COVID-19 Virus in China could be Freedom
Delia Lin