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28 July 2016

Dalit women

Cities

Indian activist wins Asia's Nobel prize for fighting manual disposal of faeces

Child labour in India

Policy & Finance

India's parliament passes controversial child labour bill

21 July 2016

Garment workers in India

Manufacturing

Indian court orders 30 per cent pay hike for garment workers

18 July 2016

Sarawak Borneo

Food & Agriculture

Malaysia land rights activist murder suspects charged in court

13 July 2016

human rights day celebration

Policy & Finance

Warning against ‘cherry-picking’ among Global Goals, UN experts say human rights cannot be ignored

5 July 2016

bonded brick kiln women workers in India

Policy & Finance

India's first human trafficking law: draft falls short, campaigners say

27 June 2016

women garment workers in India

Manufacturing

One in seven women in Bengaluru garment factories face sexual violence, report says

10 June 2016

heavy bunches indofood

Food & Agriculture

PepsiCo supplier Indofood accused of child labour, violations

6 June 2016

Coal fired power plant in Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Indonesia’s largest coal plant will be built despite protests, minister says

31 May 2016

Child labour in factories

Policy & Finance

Global treaty "only realistic way" to stop supply chain abuse: rights group

10 May 2016

Dhaka Savar Building Collapse

Corporate Responsibility

The price of fashion’s murky supply chains

29 April 2016

Women brick-kiln workers in India demand better work conditions

Policy & Finance

'Invisible' women brick-kiln workers in India's Punjab demand their rights

27 April 2016

Protect forest dwellers to protect forest

Carbon & Climate

Forest guardians pay a heavy price

26 April 2016

A woman in Dhaka looks out forlornly.

Carbon & Climate

Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage

15 April 2016

fishing burmese hua hin

Corporate Responsibility

New ways to fight human-rights abuses in the global seafood industry

13 April 2016

palm oil truck loading

Food & Agriculture

Malaysian palm oil giant loses 7 more customers over RSPO suspension

29 March 2016

baram dam protest

Energy

Controversial dam officially canceled in Borneo after indigenous protests

24 March 2016

Kalash people having a festival

Carbon & Climate

Climate poses threat to ancient culture

23 March 2016

Labourers in brick kiln, India.

Corporate Responsibility

Bonded laborers in India brick kilns slowly learn they have rights

10 March 2016

deforestation asia

Policy & Finance

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund just dropped 11 companies over deforestation

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