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COVID-19 Recovery in Southeast Asia: Jakarta, Oh Jakarta!

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Should Nuclear Power Have a Future in Thailand?

E-Paper

This E-paper by Tipakson Manpati explores the back and forth in the discourse and strategies around Thailand's politics on the use of nuclear power, including debates on energy efficiency and long-term safety issues.

By Tipakson Manpati

Recent Articles

A World without Plastic Pollution Is Possible - A Book for Teens Informs and Guides on Plastic

Press release

Today, the Heinrich Böll Foundation is publishing the digital non-fiction book Unpacked! Plastic, Waste, and Me.

Special Economic Zones and Land Dispossession in the Mekong Region

Brief

This report examines that SEZs in the Mekong region are often linked with human rights violations such as land dispossession, poor working conditions and environmental degradation. As SEZs have expanded in the region, so too have social conflicts and resistance from local residents who have fought to protect their land and resources.

By Land Watch Thai

Phobia, Whose Phobia? Unpacking Present-Day Homophobia and Transphobia in Asia

Essay

On the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), the scholar-activist Dédé Oetomo from Indonesia explores the contrast between contemporary homophobia and transphobia and the more tolerant or accepting past and how this can give support to the LGBTIQ+ community.

By Dédé Oetomo

Call for Expression of Interest – Copy Editors for English

Opportunities

Heinrich Böll Stiftung is setting up a roster of professional copy-editors, who may be involved in its projects, publications and activities in the region under a year-long framework agreement. The copy editors will work closely together with the research manager at hbs Southeast Asia in Bangkok.

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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

Should Nuclear Power Have a Future in Thailand? [pdf]

E-Paper

This E-paper by Tipakson Manpati explores the back and forth in the discourse and strategies around Thailand´s politics on the use of nuclear power, including debates on energy efficiency and long-term safety issues.

pdf

Plastic Atlas Asia Edition

The Plastic Atlas Asia Edition has the hard facts, data and figures to prove that the story of plastic that industry is telling us is a myth. We need urgent and drastic reductions in plastic production and consumption and regulation at the local, national, regional and global level that tackle plastic pollution at the source.

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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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COVID-19 Recovery in Southeast Asia: Jakarta, Oh Jakarta!

Should Nuclear Power Have a Future in Thailand?

Recent Articles

Landing Duterte’s Jet Ski Presidency

The Dilemma of Waste during COVID-19 Pandemic

Restoring Our Ecosystem: A Call to Malaysia and the World

A World without Plastic Pollution Is Possible - A Book for Teens Informs and Guides on Plastic

Special Economic Zones and Land Dispossession in the Mekong Region

Phobia, Whose Phobia? Unpacking Present-Day Homophobia and Transphobia in Asia

Plastic Problems in Southeast Asia

Cement and the Kendeng Mountains

Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Call for Expression of Interest – Copy Editors for English

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

Articles on Pollinators Restoration

Climate Justice Now!

Web-Blog: What Climate Activists Say

Publications

Recent Publications

Should Nuclear Power Have a Future in Thailand? [pdf]

Plastic Atlas Asia Edition

Gender and Digitisation in Asia: Future Policy Pathways

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