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.
Access to Justice
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.
Nepal’s Legislative Strides to Combat Human Trafficking: Aligning with the Palermo Protocol
As part of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, The Palermo Protocol is the first legal document to provide an internationally recognized definition of human trafficking. It serves…
Experts Call for Comprehensive Climate Justice Law in Indonesia Amid Growing Environmental Challenges
Indonesia does not have a comprehensive legal framework for Climate Justice. Currently, the highest umbrella regulations only exist in the Presidential Regulation (Presidential Regulation Number 98/2021), and most regulations and…
Enabling Citizen Access to Justice and Community Harmony: Three Decades of Support for Sri Lanka Mediation Boards
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…
Reforming Agricultural Land Titling in the Philippines
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…
The Makassar City Government to Publish the Mayor’s Regulation (Perwali) on Restorative Justice’s Support Services
The Makassar city government, in collaboration with YLBHI LBH Makassar, is currently in the final stages of drafting the Mayor’s Regulation (Perwali) on Restorative Justice’s Support Services in Indonesia. The…
The Asia Foundation and Ocean Justice Initiatives Collaborate at Festival LIKE 2023 in Indonesia
There’s been a lot of concern over the world’s rising temperatures and climate change effects. The Asia Foundation in Indonesia’s Environmental Governance program is actively supporting countries to play their…
Promoting “Social and Behavior Change” in the Philippine Human Rights Sector
Andrei Venal is a human rights worker, but he has been called many other things: “We are called terrorists. Dissenters without cause. Rabble-rousers. When we are tagged like that, it…
EMERGE Program Drives National Policy Change Around LGBTQI+ Rights
In the Philippines, the Empowered Movements for Rights and Gender Equality (EMERGE) program is coalition-building with several grassroots lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) organizations to build momentum…
A Pacific Solution to a Pacific Challenge: A Human-Rights Approach to Human Trafficking
With porous borders and limited resources for enforcement, The Pacific Islands are especially susceptible to sex and labor trafficking.