Five-year-old Pratham and his 10-month-old brother Ayush lost their father to COVID in April. Days later, at a different Delhi hospital, they lost their mother.Their world had changed and they didn't even know it. They couldn't understand why their parents were taking so long to come home. Relatives told Pratham that his mum and dad had gone out for work.
A village watchman trains his binoculars on a suspicious fishing boat - the first line of defence as Thailand braces for a fresh methamphetamine influx after a coup in neighbouring Myanmar.The kingdom's narcotics bureau has already seized more than 80 million "yaba" pills just in the past six months, a record haul partly blamed on a supply glut caused by the coronavirus pandemic.But now the United Nations (UN) warns of an even bigger deluge as Myanmar's legal economy tanks
United States (US) administrations come and go, but America’s repressive drug strategy remains a constant. Ever since President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the world has hoped for a change in US drug policy with every new administration.
With nearly 74 police reports lodged and a chorus of criticisms from civil society groups and Malaysians over safety conditions and the promotion of immoral acts, controversial online dating platform Sugarbook was blocked by the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Ministry (MCMC).
An estimated eight million children are reported missing every year. However, it’s not just the young that have disappeared, but adults too. Unfortunately, when it comes to missing people, sometimes they are gone without a trace with no successful lead.According to the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), over 800 children and teenagers have been reported missing from 2014 to 2019.
19 Rohingya and a Thai woman accused of housing them have been arrested for illegal entry to Thailand, police said Saturday, as concerns grow about trafficking routes for the Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar.The embattled Rohingya have long faced persecution in Myanmar, where they are denied freedom of movement and citizenship, and lack access to work, healthcare and schools. A 2017 military crackdown in western Rakhine state sent almost 750,000 fleeing across the border to Bangladesh
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), defines violence against children (VAC) as “all forms of physical or mental violence, injury and abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse.” Article 1 of the CRC defines a “child” as every human being below the age of 18 years. Today, VAC is not just limited to conventional spaces (e.g., home, school, community). There are new forms of VAC taking place online or in cyberspace.
One of the most crucial and pressing issues related to children in the Philippines is the issue of children in armed conflict.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), at least 63 percent of the world’s fake goods originate from China. Nevertheless, some nations across Southeast Asia are also infamous for producing, trading and trafficking counterfeit products. Some of these countries include ASEAN member states Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Product counterfeiting is a form of consumer fraud: a product is sold, purporting to be something that it is not.
A group of Rohingya say they were beaten by traffickers and drank their own urine to stay alive on a perilous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the Indonesian coast.The bedraggled survivors - about 100 in all, mostly women and children - described a high-seas horror story that saw them reduced to throwing the dead overboard as their rickety craft drifted thousands of kilometres towards Malaysia.Two survivors claimed that people smugglers paid to transport them had bea
The trade in drugs has always been recognised as a global issue since the beginning of the 20th century.
While the origins of the novel coronavirus, now better known as COVID-19 have not been identified, it is safe to assume that China's wildlife market in Wuhan played a central role in the early spread of the deadly virus. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), the global wildlife trafficking industry is worth between US$7 billion and US$23 billion, annually.
