Opinion

NGOs helped convince China to end the arbitrary detention of sex workers. A crackdown on civil society will make future reforms harder.

Capacity for governance best predicts the performance countries have against the coronavirus.

Mutual willingness to proceed with the visit indicates that the trust between Washington and Hanoi has reached a new level.

While other democracies have recoiled in horror, Japan has continued to pour overseas aid into Myanmar.

How can the Afghan government revive its legitimacy ahead of the intra-Afghan peace talks?

ASEAN must move from aid to rights advocacy in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. 

Amid the coronavirus epidemic, suppression of dissent remains a top priority for the CCP, and the stakes are higher than ever.

Are the origins of "Westlessness" to be found closer to home?

It is essential that the international community continue to invest in women and girls around the world.

Arresting mainstream politicians and a media mogul for peaceful protest marks a sharp escalation in the assault on Hong Kong’s freedoms.

Afghans have been cautiously hopeful about the peace process, but they are not willing to agree to a peace “at any cost.”

Afghanistan needs both a central government with a monopoly over the use of force and reforms which factor in the self-governance capabilities already found at the local level.