Media Coverage

Two Hong Kong journalists will learn the outcome this week of their landmark sedition trial, whose verdict could set the tone for the future of journalism in the city. The two journalists, Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, are former editors of the now-closed independent news outlet, Stand News. They...

Nepal's National Assembly on August 22 unanimously endorsed the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act amid reservations from a section of the conflict victims, and national and international human rights watchdogs. A group of victims and human...

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have held rallies in camps to mark the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown in Myanmar that forced them to flee. Refugees from children to the elderly waved placards and chanted slogans on August 25 in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, demanding...

A United Nations team will meet Bangladesh’s interim government and other stakeholders beginning on August 22 to discuss the process to investigate alleged human rights violations during the recent deadly violence in the South Asian country, officials said. About 300 people, many of them university...

The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, accusing the human rights watchdog of “"spreading propaganda.” Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan's human rights situation after...

Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader of Bangladesh, has delivered his first major government policy address in which he promised to support the Rohingya community seeking refuge in the country and maintain Bangladesh’s garment trade. Speaking in front of diplomats and UN representatives, Yunus pledged...

The 300-plus reported cases of Afghan women being killed by men since the Taliban seized power are just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to the true scale of gender-based violence in Afghanistan, according to new data analysis. Open-source investigators at the Centre of Information Resilience...

The Accountability Watch Committee in Nepal, a rights group, on August 9 said the bill to amend the Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act contains serious errors. In a statement, the committee urged the authorities concerned to address the issues before the bill is endorsed...

Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is set to return to Dhaka on August 8 to be sworn in as his country’s interim leader, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following widespread protests against her government. The Bangladesh military’s swift appointment of...

Bangladesh's parliament has been dissolved, a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced from power. Ms. Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of student-led protests spiraled into deadly unrest. The dissolution of parliament, a key demand of protesters, paves the way for...