IN ASIA

A new report puts numbers to the unique hardships of women in Nepal during Covid-19. It shows that to get more data about women, we need more women in data.

A recent investigation of the health of civic spaces in Southeast Asia finds them increasingly constrained by government, internally fragmented, starved for funding, and divided by generation.

A five-nation initiative to blunt the impact of Covid-19 in South Asia combines international scope, local partnerships, and a question: how to prepare the most vulnerable for the next crisis.

Southeast Asia will be the most pivotal region of the new administration’s foreign policy.

Our Afghan research department has just been rated the ninth-best think tank in Central Asia, but the honor will be a hollow one if the country closes the door to research.

Working women in the Pacific Islands face a trifecta of challenges from Covid-19, climate change, and disruptive technology. A new report from The Asia Foundation takes a hard look at the path to a better future.

Still shadowed by its legacy of civil war, Sri Lanka needs national reconciliation. An experimental curriculum in “values education” is creating measurable change in empathy and respect among youth of different communities.

It’s remarkable enough that Marjina Begum, born in a rural village and married at 13, now employs 560 women in a business she built herself, but she also found a way to keep them safe and Covid-free—with help from The Asia Foundation.

In honor of International Women’s Day, our hosts John Rieger and Tracie Yang celebrate some of the remarkable women we’ve met in the past year on the InAsia podcast.

In a crisis space like the Covid pandemic, support for women-led organizations and a deeper analysis of intersectional identities are some of the ways that a feminist lens promotes women’s leadership and broader organizing for justice.