Harassment
Philippines coast guard monitoring Chinese vessels in the SCS

Philippines Summons Diplomat Over SCS 'Harassment'

Manila revealed on Tuesday that it had summoned a senior Beijing diplomat to protest the alleged harassment of a marine research vessel by a Chinese coast guard ship in Philippine territorial waters.The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was also reviewing reports on the "presence of foreign coast guard vessels around Reed Bank", site of the 2019 sinking of a Filipino fishing vessel that sparked domestic outrage.The revelation came the same day Manila said it had issued a separat

1 June 2022
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Sexual Harassment Still Rampant In Vietnam

In March 2019, Vietnamese were outraged after a man was fined only US$8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator which was caught on CCTV footage.Like any other country in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is no stranger to stories of sexual assault of women and children. Nevertheless, the ASEAN member state has seen remarkable progress on women’s rights and leadership in some areas, notably on access to education and maternal health and in strengthening the legal and institutional framewor

3 August 2020
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Protecting Indonesia’s workers

The ASEAN Post recently published an article regarding human rights abuses that Indonesia is said to have allegedly committed against Papuans. It is, however, equally important to remember that human rights abuses are also allegedly being committed against their own people as well.

2 July 2019
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