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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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December 29, 2009
Thailand
Thailand and Cambodia Compete to Throw Out Refugees
News this week that the Thai government would begin forcibly repatriating some 4,000 Hmong back to Laos was greeted by condemnations from the UN, the United States, and various human rights organizat…
June 12, 2012
Asia
Myanmar’s Ethnic Violence
In a recent blog post for Asia Unbound, I noted that among Myanmar’s many challenges in the reform process, the country faced the possibility that political opening would unleash ethnic and religious…
June 29, 2012
Asia
Myanmar’s Ethnic Strife and Media Coverage
Over at Bangkok Pundit, BP has a fine summary of complaints by some Burmese bloggers and writers that the foreign media has covered the ethnic strife in western Myanmar poorly and, in some cases, all…
August 16, 2012
No Country for Fifteen Million: The Plight of the World’s Stateless
Coauthored with Isabella Bennett, program coordinator in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Guor Marial, a cross-country All-American athlete at Iowa State, ran two marath…
September 28, 2012
Asia
Does the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration Even Matter?
Elizabeth Leader is a Research Associate for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. The author’s views on ASEAN’s human rights progress do not necessarily reflect those of Joshua Kurlant…
