Women & Children

  There’s compelling evidence that all have become source countries for a brutal business – the trafficking of women and girls for sale in China as brides. In...

  It may feel like Christmas is still a long way off, but Santa’s on his way, and the more you prepare now, the happier you’ll be on...

  Myanmar wants the Rohingya refugees to return, and preparations have been made to receive them, according to the minister in charge of the process. "We will accept...

  Female protestors are becoming a ubiquitous feature of the contemporary protest landscape. In the not so distant past, women served mostly in a support capacity during armed...

  An orphanage in Kurdish-administered northeastern Syria has been taking in children of Yazidi women who have been raped by Islamic State fighters. Orphanage officials say their goal...

  It was in May that the mysterious illness first took hold. In their isolated rainforest home in the Malaysian state of Kelantan, members of the Batek tribe,...

  An Asean report predicting half a million Rohingya refugees will return to Myanmar in two years has left observers incredulous for glossing over army atrocities, ignoring an...

  A South Korean MP is attempting to overturn a centuries-old tradition in which every newborn baby turns one on the day they are born and two on...

  Children in colourful outfits sing in a creole of Portuguese and Malay during a class in the historic Malaysian city of Malacca, part of efforts to stem...

For the past nine years, Phayaw Akkahad has been tirelessly seeking justice for her daughter and scores of other people killed when Thailand's army embarked on a final push...