Donald Trump has nominated Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a noted hawk on China, for US Secretary of State. Rubio is also known for his advocacy of human rights in Southeast Asia.

Thailand is legalizing same-sex marriage— the first country in Southeast Asia to do so. DW looks at what is next for Thailand and the region on LGBTQ+ rights and marriage equality.A new marriage ...

UN special rapporteurs voiced concern on Wednesday over the scale of trafficking and human rights abuses related to “scam compounds” in Southeast Asia. They called for urgent international action to ...

“Corruption remains one of the most serious challenges facing the South-East Asia region,” said Megumi Hara, UNODC Crime ...

Last year, the Human Rights Initiative published a Critical Questions on human trafficking to forced scamming centers, sometimes called “fraud factories.” This is part two of a two-part follow-on ...

Cross-border cooperation between countries is essential for addressing the transnational nature of child and forced marriages and human trafficking. In Southeast Asia, as in any region, addressing the ...

When Volker Türk, the U.N. human rights chief, presents his office’s findings to the Human Rights Council next week, he will recommend that the U.N. Security Council refer the crisis in Myanmar ...

Media groups and human rights advocates across Southeast Asia marked World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) by highlighting the threats t0 free speech in their respective countries. This year’s WPFD theme, ...

This has been identified as a major human rights abuse in the 2014 U.N. Commission of ... He is the Vice President of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy and a Senior Fellow at the Global ...

Human rights defenders rallied on Thursday to support the top UN expert on Palestinian rights, after the United States ...