Dubbed the most influential philosopher alive, Peter Singer is loved and loathed for his controversial views. Now he wants us to give away a lot of our money.

While many in and outside Myanmar question the quality of the democratic space being opened by the government after decades of military rule, a surge of new ideas is being allowed in the public sphere. And among the beneficiaries, finally, are women.

The anti-terrorism expert tells Jo Baker about attending school with a future Bali bomber and helping jihadists to reform.

Later this year, Hong Kong will come under the microscope of a UN committee reviewing the city's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw). While Hong Kong is ahead of many other societies…

An article from South China Morning Post forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission, written via the pseudonym Julianne Porter. Caught on a rare tea break, Father Nandana Manatunga bats atthe "tsunami" flies that whirl around his head and ponde

Jo Baker sits down with Dr. Philip Haig Nitschke, an Australian humanist, author, former physician, and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International.

Cameron Sinclair runs Architecture for Humanity, the world's only architecture studio focused on crisis response and humanitarian action.

Jo Baker profiles the only international humanitarian-oriented organisation to have pioneered design as a tool to fight disaster - Architecture for Humanity.

Heavy hitters meeting at a Thai eco-resort seek to avert environmental catastrophe by targeting and changing the mindsets of the world's most powerful people and companies, writes Jo Baker.

In June 1975, waves of black-clad guerilla fighters entered Phnom Penh and emptied it - by persuasion, coercion and violence - in just a few days. Today, facing the prospect of its first skyscraper, a rash of special economic zones and...

Asia Sentinel, Hong Kong, 19 April 2010, reprinted as an Op-ed in the Jakarta Globe, Indonesia Millions of detainees across the globe remain in filthy, crowded and unsanitary prisons

A former foreign correspondent reflects on forty years in the region.

Young victims of police brutality now have somewhere to turn

As a truth commission secretary MCM Iqbal helped gathered evidence on thousands of forced disappearances in Sri Lanka, only to see it disappear itself

For a free man, Nasir Aslam Zahid spends a lot of time in jail. The former chief justice runs the Legal Aid Office, based out of Karachi's central prison, which helps women and children incarcerated across his home province of Sindh.

Joseph Jubelag narrowly escaped the massacre in Maguindanao which claimed the lives of 57 people

Abu Bakker Qassim - allegedly tortured in China, then wrongly incarcerated in Guantanamo - is finding a semblance of peace in the Balkan nation of Albania.

Also carried in the World Politics Review Ahmadis face serious danger and death, some of it possibly fomented by the government.

Jo Baker sits down with the Philippines' human rights activist and 'running priest'

There will be little sleep tonight for the inmates of Adiala Jail's death cells, but though the rooms in Pakistan's notorious northern prison are concrete, cold and small - they measure about 250cm by 150cm - discomfort is a side issue. This is…