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  • A portrait of the Environmental Human Rights Defender As a (Very) Young Man

    At just 23, Max Han of Malaysia is already a recognized leader in the global fight against climate change. He’s one of 20 young change-makers from this year’s LeadNext Fellowship program.
  • Tackling Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Mongolia

    Computers, smartphones, and the internet have unleashed new forms of gender-based violence that are especially threatening to women.
  • Nepal’s Silent Crisis: Human Trafficking Under the Spotlight

    Well-intentioned laws and policies still do not adequately protect Nepal from human trafficking. It could have international consequences.
  • International Day of the Girl Child: Young Women in STEM—A Force for Climate Action

    The existential threat of climate change requires a creative, all-of-society response. It must include more young women in technical fields.
  • Understanding and Empowering Timor-Leste’s Young People

    Jobs may be scarce and the future uncertain for Timor-Leste’s surging youth population, but conversations with Timorese young people suggest that they are optimistic and committed to their country’s future.
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    Transforming a Time-Honored Tradition of Community Mediation 

    How The Asia Foundation in the 1990s worked to reform traditional community mediation in Bangladesh to make it more inclusive and more equitable.
  • Reducing the Price of Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh 

    Alternative dispute resolution continues to serve the poor and marginalized in Bangladesh, for whom the expensive and overloaded courts are often out of reach.
  • Indonesia: The Road to Restorative Justice 

    Indonesia’s prisons are bursting at the seams. An experiment in “restorative justice” offers a promising alternative to mass incarceration.
  • In Mongolia, a Hand Up for Young Legal Professionals

    Mongolia urgently needs lawyers to support its rapidly growing and increasingly complex society. The Mongolian justice system, which currently includes around 6,680 judges, prosecutors, and attorneys, is expanding to meet […]
  • Meet the Young Asian Diplomats

    Seminars at Georgetown University, a tour of the White House, and a trip to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame were some of the highlights for 11 mid-career diplomats […]
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    Building and Sharing Korean Electoral Democracy

    The Asia Foundation is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2024. For seven decades, we have partnered with change-makers from government, civil society, the private sector, and academia to solve some of […]
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    Thinking and Working Politically: Navigating the Political Realities of Policy Reform

    The Asia Foundation is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2024. For seven decades, we have partnered with change-makers from government, civil society, the private sector, and academia to solve some […]

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