Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

30.05.2009 This year's campaign linked to the Burmese democracy leader's birthday. It's original and innovative but I wish there was more focus on the role of the Chinese in propping up the regime.

29.05.2009 Poor communities in Pakistan’s northwest – already among the poorest in the world – are hosting up to two million people uprooted by recent violence in the region, warns an international aid agency.
+ SOS Children to offer emergency shelter to Pakistani refugees

26.05.2009 People trapped in the Swat conflict zone in Pakistan face a humanitarian catastrophe unless the Pakistani military immediately lifts a curfew that has been in place continuously for the last week, an international rights group has warned.

26.05.2009 A new report, Still in the Fields, exposes the continued use of state-sponsored forced child labour in cotton production in Uzbekistan and highlights major role played by leading brands in ending the abuse.

25.05.2009 The continued use of state-sponsored forced child labour in cotton production in Uzbekistan and the major role played by leading brands in ending the abuse is outlined in a new report out tomorrow.

24.05.2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has witnessed the suffering of some of the 300,000 people uprooted by the conflict between the Sri Lankan Government and Tamil rebels, during a “very sobering” visit to a displacement camp.

23.05.2009 Cherie Blair is to launch a campaign to encourage people to hold dinner parties for needy Indian children.

23.05.2009 The UN Human Rights Council should ensure that the Sri Lankan government takes immediate steps to address the crisis in the country, beginning with providing immediate, unhindered access to international aid workers and monitors, urged an international rights group.

21.05.2009 Oxfam says it has had to double its aid effort in Pakistan as the number of displaced tops 2 million, making the crisis the greatest internal displacement of people in the country's history.

20.05.2009 The International Red cross has suspended its aid operations in Sri Lanka due to restrictions placed on it by the government.

19.05.2009 A humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in as the war in Sri Lanka reaches its final hours following the reported admission of defeat by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
* Prabha killed
+ Children are bearing the brunt

17.05.2009 Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is to address parliament on Tuesday to announce victory over Tamil Tiger rebels, after the Tigers admitted that the conflict in the north of the island had reached a "bitter end".
+ When I return my country is free from LTTE terrorism, says President Mahinda Rajapaksa
+ Taming of Tamil Tigers threatens to breed fiercer creatures

15.05.2009 A growing number of traumatised, malnourished children as young as five are arriving unaccompanied at camps in Sri Lanka, separated from their parents during their escape from the violence in the north-east.

14.05.2009 An intense diplomatic effort to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi has been called for by a Burmese democracy organisation following her detention in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail.

14.05.2009 An intense diplomatic effort to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi has been called for by a Burmese democracy organisation following her detention in Burma’s notorious Insein Jail.

13.05.2009 The Sri Lankan authorities must give international monitors and agencies immediate access to troubled areas to help ensure that the humanitarian and human rights crisis is addressed, says an international rights group.
+ Not all Tamils are Tigers
+ Help stop the bloodbath

12.05.2009 More support is needed for the poorest people who survived the earthquake that devastated western China a year ago, says an international development agency.
+ Love flourishes amid ruins of Sichuan

12.05.2009 The Turkish government has set its own catch limit for the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna, in total disregard for internationally agreed quotas and scientific advice, according to an international environmental group.

11.05.2009 The UN condemned a "bloodbath" in Sri Lanka's northern war zone after two days of shelling that a government doctor said killed as many as 1,000 ethnic Tamil civilians, including 106 children.
+ Tamils resume London vigil

11.05.2009 About 80 activists, writers and MPs have been arrested durng protests against the ruling party's takeover of the Malaysian state of Perak.