Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

30.07.2009 Dozens of Penan tribespeople armed with blowpipes and spears have erected blockades across the roads cut by logging companies deep into their forest in Borneo. The blockaders are calling for an end to logging on their land.

30.07.2009 The Bangladesh government has announced the "biggest withdrawal" of army troops from the Chittagong Hill Tracts since a peace accord was signed over a decade ago in an attempt to bring stability to the long-troubled region.

29.07.2009 The number of criminal executions will be reduced in China, according to Zhang Jun, vice-president of the Supreme People's Court.

29.07.2009 The Sri Lankan government should immediately release the more than 280,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians held in detention camps in the north, an international rights group said.
+ Sri Lanka: the challenges ahead

28.07.2009 About 1.5 million Pakistanis displaced by fighting in the Northwest Frontier Province have yet to be repatriated and need assurance that their safety will be respected and humanitarian assistance will continue, says an aid charity.

27.07.2009 Thousands of steelworkers in China's industrial northeast staged a protest against a planned takeover of their state-controlled employer and a group of them killed a top executive at the private company that was to acquire it, according to a Hong Kong-based human-rights group.

27.07.2009 Campaigner Bianca Jagger and musician Nitin Sawhney will stand alongside indigenous activist Sitaram Kulisika of India's Khondh people at British mining company Vedanta's AGM today to protest against a proposal to open a massive bauxite mine on their spiritual homeland.
+ Other London events

27.07.2009 Over the last year the Sri Lankan government has upset UN agencies, outraged human rights groups and insulted European ministers. Why has the IMF agreed to a $2.6 billion loan facility?

26.07.2009 An overwhelming welcome in Nepal awaited Gurkha champion and actress Joanna Lumley, who has headed the campaign to enable Gurkha veterans to have the right to settle in Britain.

24.07.2009 Repeated protests by indigenous people in Orissa, India, have blocked the mining plans of one of Britain’s biggest companies, leading to a costly delay.

23.07.2009 Sri Lanka has set a six-month timeline for rehabilitating Tamils displaced by the recently ended conflict between its armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

22.07.2009 The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights under the façade of countering terrorism, says a new report.

22.07.2009 A Dalit (Untouchable) community in India is being punished for one person's alleged crime, according to a human rights organisation in Gujarat: it claims 12 households have been living under a boycott which denies them work, the use of village shops, contact with non-Dalits and access to parts of the village.

21.07.2009 A widespread lack of human security undermines human development in Arab countries, according to a new report.

20.07.2009 Can the International Maritime Organization be taken seriously by climate change negotiators when its ships choose to sail from Europe around the Cape of Good Hope rather than through the Suez Canal?

19.07.2009 Valuable analysis of the regional power relationships influencing Sri Lanka's prospects of obtaining IMF funding. groundviews

19.07.2009 Harry Rud finds ten reasons to feel guilty about his two years as an aid worker in Afghanistan. Harry Rud

19.07.2009 Painful experience of economic disaster in the 1990s may have equipped Indonesia to cope better with the current global recession. From Poverty to Power

16.07.2009 A UN refugee agency staff member was shot dead at a camp outside the northwest Pakistani town of Peshawar today.
+ Killing sparks outcry from top officials
+ Ruthlessness in Chechnya
+ Call for thorough investigation into killing of Russian activist

15.07.2009 The UN and India’s National Human Rights Committee have been asked to stop a controversial bauxite mine in India.