Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

26.06.2008 Strong criticism of the treatment of child offenders in Afghanistan is made in a new report by the country's Human Rights Commission that presses for reform of the juvenile justice system.

25.06.2008 Papuans have demanded a halt to all new forestry and plantations deals until the Indonesian region’s Special Autonomy Law protects indigenous rights, a coalition of local organisations said today.

23.06.2008 To describe Kekexili (Mountain Patrol) as a film about wildlife conservation is akin to saying Hamlet is about a disturbed son. It just doesn't convey the forcde of the drama.

23.06.2008 Campaigners today demonstrated outside British fashion retailer Primark’s flagship store in London amid claims that workers producing its clothes overseas face poor wages and conditions.

21.06.2008 A new Indian writing talent returns to London: Anupama Chandrasekhar. Her play, Free Outgoing, which played here in 2007, is being staged again at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.

21.06.2008 Londoners will soon be able to get off the tube at King’s Cross and walk into a Palestinian refugee camp.

21.06.2008 India is experiencing a growing crisis because the number of girls born and surviving compared to boys has hit an all-time low, according to an international development group.

17.06.2008 Take a Taxi to the Dark Side. It’s a grim documentary, and you may think you know already that you oppose the use of torture on prisoners on the “war on terror” and that there’s therefore no need to see a film about it. But the more light shone on the political double-talk that led us into this moral dead-end, the better.

17.06.2008 Protests have made over the arrest of an editor and a blogger in Myanmar for channelling relief to victims of the Cyclone Nargis (at least eight journalists and a blogger are currently in prison there) and over China's detention of cyber-dissident Huang Qi.

15.06.2008 States that participated in the US-led invasion of Iraq should take steps to alleviate the suffering of the 4.7 million people displaced by the conflict and must stop sending people back as the country is unsafe, says Amnesty International.

13.06.2008 A new film season looks at what it means to be Tibetan, offering a window into a fascinating culture protected and developed within the exile community.

12.06.2008 Afghanistan needs more aid but it must be spent more effectively, a leading international NGO said today ahead of a donors' meeting in Paris.

12.06.2008 New measures by Myanmar's military government to control news and information coming out of the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta have been condemned by local and international media freedom groups.

10.06.2008 Education experts representing United Nations agencies, donor countries, national governments and non-governmental organisations are meeting in the Nepalese capital today to discuss issues related to gender equality in education in the Asia-Pacific region.

10.06.2008 Qatar Petroleum is to jointly invest up to $70m with the UK/Dutch Shell Group in researching carbon dioxide storage projects in the Middle East, including the development of potential sites in the gas-rich state.

09.06.2008 Animal parks in China are selling illegal tiger bone wine made from the remains of the captive big cats which die there, covert investigations have revealed.

04.06.2008 The "appalling and unreported" human and environmental cost of the leather trade in Bangladesh is documented in a new report and film, "Hell For Leather".

04.06.2008 Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and the occupation of captured territory has undermined its economic growth and pushed up defence expenditure by at least £11 billion in the last 20 years, according to an Israeli think-tank report.