More than 250 people from 20 nationalities, including a Sri Lankan national, who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar’s Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and ...

US president’s call for mass displacement in Gaza risks renewing the fighting in the devastated enclave, analysts say.

Some 260 people believed to have been trafficked and trapped into working in online scam centers are to be repatriated after ...

The junta government thrives on violence, deception and a systematic erosion of Myanmar’s democratic institutions.

Ethnoburbs — ethnic suburban enclaves — challenge assimilation and represent a form of resistance against the homogenizing ...

Ambae islanders combine their ecological observations with scientific data to develop an early-warning system to predict ...

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Responding to the recent raid, arrest and detention of dozens of LGBTI people in a hotel in Jakarta, Amnesty International Indonesia’s Executive Director Usman Hamid said: “The police’s discriminatory ...

They further divided the groups by requiring all Rwandans to carry identity cards that classified people by their ethnicity. A Hutu revolution in 1959, supported by the Belgians, forced as many as 300 ...