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HONORING Christiane Amanpour Award-winning journalist, CNN and PBS AND SafetiPin India-based social enterprise making cities safer for women MASTER OF CEREMONY Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Council on Foreign Relations HONORARY CO-CHAIRS Janet Montag Hee-Jung Moon Mandarin Oriental New York, 80 Columbus Circle 6:30 pm Reception 7:30 pm Dinner The Asia Found… Read more

The Asia Foundation supported the launch of a new book that examines problems in the Philippines’ prevailing electoral system and presents new options for converting votes to seats in Strong Patronage, Weak Parties: The Case for Electoral System Redesign in the Philippines. Launched together with Anvil Publishing and The Australian National Univers… Read more

On January 23, 2019, The Asia Foundation office hosted a roundtable on “Ensuring Justice Delivery for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Trafficking” at the International Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The Asia Foundation’s India office convened members of Indian civil society, law practitioners, trafficking and gender experts, as well as represe… Read more

Scholars and policymakers across the region came together to this week to explore the longstanding partnership between the United States and the Philippines and future areas of cooperation. The February 7-8 conference, “The Future of the U.S.–Philippines Bilateral Relationship” was organized by The Asia Foundation and Ateneo School of Government, a… Read more

In the 13th edition of the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program names The Asia Foundation’s Afghanistan office as one of the top ten think tanks in Central Asia. Since its inception in 2006, the objective of the report has been to acknowledge and gain a better understand… Read more

The Asia Foundation is pleased to announce the participants of the 2019 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Workshop on Eco & Sustainable Tourism, a program of the U.S. Department of State. The week-long workshop will take place March 4-8, 2019 in Luang Prabang, Laos, bringing together 50 participants from ASEAN countries and T… Read more

The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa examines key findings from The Asia Foundation’s annual Survey of the Afghan People in a two-part blog feature, “A Nation in Transition: Afghan Perspectives on Society, Politics, and Economics, 2004 and 2018.” Comparing the survey results from 2004 and 2018, the article… Read more

 Faculty of Social Science 4004, 120 University Private, Ottawa Afghanistan is at an important moment in its history. Despite a persistent insurgency that continues to control and destabilize roughly half of the country, high levels of voter enthusiasm in the recent parliamentary elections demonstrated that the people of Afghanistan remain inv… Read more

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) features Asia Foundation trustee Ambassador Kathleen Stephens in a video interview, “Living History with Ambassador Kathleen Stephens.” In the first of the two-part interview series, Amb. Stephens reflects on her experience as a Peace Corp volunteer and junior diplomatic officer during the… Read more

The Bureau of Research on Industry and Economic Fundamentals (BRIEF), supported by the Asia Foundation, launched a new report, The Political Economy of Rice Trade Between Bangladesh, India and Nepal, on January 22, at the India International Centre. In Bangladesh, India and Nepal, rice is the staple food for most of the population and comprises app… Read more