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Abandonment: The New-Normal for Migrant Workers?

Migrant workers amidst the pandemic in the Global South have gone through the same experience as those who are displaced. The health crisis has brought the plight of migrant workers to another level, in what it is considered here as ‘abandonment’.

By Pamungkas A. Dewanto

Recent Articles

Veganism in Bangkok: A Successor to Buddhist Vegetarianism, Fueled by Trendiness

Article

Thailand has a long-standing vegan tradition in the form of jay, a Buddhist-Taoist religious practice. But more recent trends of veganism from the West carry no burden of creed nor of animal activism. In fact, going “plant-based” in Bangkok is a recent, fashionable trend fueled by Instagrammers’ photogenic shots of vegan dishes and Western culture.

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich

Newly launched Plastic Atlas Asia edition provides an Asia-focused overview of the plastic waste crisis

Press Release

A series of succinct articles and infographics providing an overview of the key issues behind Asia’s plastic pollution crisis.

Global Feminist Pitch: Feminist resilience and resistance on social media

Call for Applications

The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted the striving of women and LGBTIQ+ activists worldwide. The Global Feminist Pitch will give eight feminists the opportunity to implement their project ideas on the theme of "Feminist Resilience and Resistance on Social Media”.

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Climate Change and the Geopolitics of the Mekong River with Dr. Carl Middleton

The Mekong-Lancang River is a trans-boundary commons, it has to be shared between different actors along the river.

Dr. Carl Middleton

Renewable Energy and Institutional Governance in Thailand with Suphakit Nuntavorakarn

This year, we face the COVID-19 pandemic. But please remember that we also have other crises, especially the Climate Crisis.

Suphakit Nuntavorakarn

Marriage Equality and LGBT Rights in Thailand and Southeast Asia with Chumaporn Taengkliang

We need the better world, we hope we have the world fits for all gender.

'Waaddao' Chumaporn Taengkliang

Publications

Recent Publications

Gender and Digitisation in Asia: Future Policy Pathways

E-paper

To ensure that the fourth industrial revolution realises its transformative potential instead of exacerbating and creating new gender inequalities, it is important to understand the many intersections of digitisation and gender from a policy perspective. This paper examines the gendered dimensions of ICT in Asian countries, particularly South Asia and Southeast Asia/ASEAN.

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Annual Report 2019

Sometimes in life, there are events so momentous that they make our joy about accomplished work and productive collaboration fade into the background. The Covid crisis is such a moment, an event beyond compare. Hardly ever before have we been forced to weigh scientific insights against political, social, and economic repercussions in the face of such great uncertainty. As we are living through these world-altering times, we are trying to make sense of them, at home, as well as at our 33 international offices.

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Climate Justice and Migration

How should policymakers respond to the reality and future prospect of vast populations being displaced and relocated in an era of global heating? With climate change looming, anxiety over immigration from the Global South is increasingly fuelled by apocalyptic fears of ecological breakdown.

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between climate change and human migration, questioning the pessimistic prisms of ‘security’ and market-oriented approaches to ‘adaptation’ that currently guide policy.

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Abandonment: The New-Normal for Migrant Workers?

Recent Articles

Veganism in Bangkok: A Successor to Buddhist Vegetarianism, Fueled by Trendiness

Newly launched Plastic Atlas Asia edition provides an Asia-focused overview of the plastic waste crisis

Global Feminist Pitch: Feminist resilience and resistance on social media

Cement and the Kendeng Mountains

Articles on Pollinators Restoration

Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Click to visit our Web-Dossiers

Climate Change and the Geopolitics of the Mekong River with Dr. Carl Middleton

Renewable Energy and Institutional Governance in Thailand with Suphakit Nuntavorakarn

Marriage Equality and LGBT Rights in Thailand and Southeast Asia with Chumaporn Taengkliang

Climate Justice Now!

Plastic Problems in Southeast Asia

Web-Blog: What Climate Activists Say

Publications

Recent Publications

Gender and Digitisation in Asia: Future Policy Pathways

Annual Report 2019

Climate Justice and Migration

ATLASES

Plastic Atlas Asia Edition

Insect Atlas

Plastic Atlas

Agrifood Atlas – Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat

Soil Atlas: Facts and figures about earth, land and fields

Ocean Atlas: Understanding the threats to our marine ecosystems

Coal Atlas: Facts and figures on a fossil fuel

Meat Atlas