conflict Why Filipinos have come to embrace authoritarian ‘discipline’ July 3, 2019 1 Written by Wataru Kusaka. Image Credit: Rodrigo Duterte ภาพจาก by Prachatai/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. With no opposition candidates winning a single senatorial seat, President Rodrigo Duterte…
Crime Militarising the police, constabularising the military: Insights on Philippine public safety and security strategy June 3, 2019 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase Image Credit:Image Credit: Philippine National Police Train with JIATF West by JIATF West/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. In an article…
Asia Human trafficking and the use of social media: Keeping up with the criminals January 11, 2019 0 Written by Foo Yen Ne and Tamara Nair. Commentary Photographs of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, an abused Indonesian domestic worker who was undernourished, badly bruised and hardly…
Cambodia A new history for old crimes: Sexual violence during the Khmer Rouge regime January 10, 2019 0 Written by Theresa de Langis. Forty years after the fall of the notorious Khmer Rouge regime, which controlled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, a sliver…
China How Chinese women in the sex industry (xiaojie) are knit into the fabric of society April 16, 2018 0 Written by Yeon Jung Yu. An estimated four to ten million women are currently working in China’s sex trade. The majority of these women are…
Thailand Why Does Human Trafficking Persist in Thailand? January 11, 2018 0 Written by John Quinley III. Last month, CNN uncovered shocking footage from a slave auction in Libya showing African refugees and migrants being sold like cattle,…
Philippines Trouble Overseas for Filipino Foreign Workers September 8, 2017 0 Written by Chris Weeks. Protecting overseas workers from modern-day slavery is a serious business for the Philippine government. The scale of employment migration and the…
Drugs The Case of the Philippine Drug War: When the State Securitizes an Existential Threat to Public Safety June 1, 2017 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase. The safety of citizens and their communities, as well as their observance of law and order, is a social contract…
Drugs Fears of a Growing Tempest: Are Dark Clouds Looming Over Duterte’s Philippines? February 20, 2017 0 Written by Sylwyn C. Calizo Jr. For many, the 2016 Philippine presidential election was considered to be the turning point for a country crippled by decades-long corruption…
China Fake Wine in China January 16, 2017 4 Written by Anqi Shen. The wine market has grown rapidly in China. Associated with middle-class consumption, imported top-end wine has increased in popularity, to the…
