Full Coverage: South East Asia

22.04.2005 China rightly gets the blame for importing illegal timber from Indonesia. But there should be greater awareness that the finished goods often end up in houses in Canada and the US. Campaigners are calling for new laws in those countries.

21.04.2005 30 years ago this week the Khmer Rouge began its reign of terror in Cambodia. This moving account describes the ordeal of a family which began with their evacuation from Phnom Penh.

21.04.2005 Over the next year, the Christian Science Monitor will follow one Indonesian family that is relying on foreign aid to rebuild, and other that's chosen to go it alone. Check out the first pair of reports.

21.04.2005 HREA Director Felisa Tibbitts recently wrote a reflective essay about her travels to Cambodia to support the development of a paralegal training manual for legal and community advisors working in the provinces.

10.04.2005 Putting a stop to human trafficking requires giving voice to the needs and challenges of ALL trafficked persons, argues Project Hope International, a group with programs in the U.S., Cambodia, and Thailand.

10.04.2005 AED believes that, with positive economic and social development, much can be done to help empower Southeast Asians to continue to combat the causes of human trafficking.

07.04.2005 Atrocities committed by the Indonesian military in East Timor in 1999 remain unpunished. The terms of reference of a new Commission on Truth and Friendship established jointly by the Indonesia and East Timor governments have been criticised by local NGOs for not contemplating any prosecutions.

05.04.2005 The European Commission is today holding a debate about sanctions against the Burma regime at which anti-sanctions lobbyists are the only groups to be invited. Glenys Kinnock has called for the so-called EU Burma Day event to be abandoned.