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The international human rights system depends on the work of local defenders, but offers them little protection once they become politically inconvenient.

What makes BRICS silence on the war in West Asia particularly deplorable is that two fellow BRICS members -- Iran and the UAE -- are directly caught in the war.

Vietnamese fishers, especially those who have faced physical violence from Chinese forces, suffer in silence. 

African states have considerable agency to shape their own digital governance and are not simply accepting models imposed on them by China or other external actors.

The gap is narrow, but it leaves families with little room to absorb new shocks, including those now emerging from the war in Iran.

Despite the positive optics of punching above its weight in diplomacy, Pakistan has become weaker over time.

When victimized students were asked where they turned for help, 44.5 percent said they searched the internet, while only 2.9 percent went to a friend and fewer than 3 percent contacted the police.

With energy security back in the spotlight, the Lai administration has scrapped a longstanding plank of the DPP platform: opposing nuclear power.

China’s rare earth advantage does not equal strategic supremacy. 

South Korea has a chance to lead in defining the scope, standards, and ambition of a new U.N. convention on crimes against humanity.

Their partnership is deepening as the Hormuz crisis drives cooperation on critical minerals, nuclear energy, and supply chain resilience.

China’s “five-point proposal” is structured to avoid friction or controversy. That’s not a recipe for solving conflict.

There are suspicions that the probe committee investigating the violence during the two-day protests wanted to protect some people from prosecution.

Despite the advantages it enjoys as a net oil exporter, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that the country cannot afford to get "too comfortable."

Even the region's energy-rich countries are now being forced to reckon with the economic fallout from the Iran conflict.

However, prosecutors are appealing the five-year sentence handed to 22-year-old Fandi Ramadhan for his role in the trafficking of nearly two tonnes of methamphetamines.

Washington's Asian allies have shown little interest in supporting the U.S. war effort, even at the level of rhetoric.

The Trump-Xi summit itself is likely to be less important than the divergent strategies that it may reveal.

Economic stabilization achieved over the past fiscal year, when inflation finally began to decline, could prove painfully short-lived if the crisis does not end soon.

Shairbek, who resigned from parliament last month, had previously been questioned as a “witness" in the Kyrgyzneftgas case.