Articles
- GHRD Team
- 15 August 2025
- GHRD Team
- 14 August 2025
- Asia, Singapore
- Death Penalty, International Law
Singapore’s death penalty regime is exact in law and unforgiving in practice, hitting hardest those with the fewest means to defend themselves. In 2024, executions reached a decade high, while dissent and appeals were increasingly shut down.
- GHRD Team
- 12 August 2025
- GHRD Team
- 8 August 2025
- Asia, Indonesia
- Blasphemy Laws, Minority Rights, Morality laws
Lead: Indonesia’s 632-article Criminal Code, adopted in 2023 and due to take effect in 2026, promises to modernise the nation’s laws. Rights advocates argue that its speech limits, morality clauses and “living law” provision could instead restrict civil liberties and expose minorities to prosecution.
- GHRD Team
- 8 August 2025
- GHRD Team
- 7 August 2025
- Asia, Myanmar
- International Law, Refugees, Rohinya
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, are the largest stateless group globally, totaling over 3.5 million due to the 1982 Citizenship Act, which discriminates based on ancestry. This law excludes the Rohingya and other ethnic groups from citizenship, driving many to seek refuge in countries like Bangladesh, where they face dire conditions in refugee camps. This article critiques Myanmar’s citizenship laws and the flawed, corrupt naturalization process that sustains multi-generational statelessness among the Rohingya.
- GHRD Team
- 31 July 2025
- GHRD Team
- 25 July 2025
- GHRD Team
- 21 July 2025
- GHRD Team
- 21 July 2025
- Belarus
- GHRD Team
- 18 July 2025
- Africa, Sudan
- International Justice, Minorities, Minority Rights
Since its independence in 2011, South Sudan faced continuous trouble marked by political power struggles, ethnic violence, and recurring cycles of conflict. However the transitional justice process is underway, but the diverse ethnicity poses significant challenges to the successful outcome of it and makes it harder to achieve justice for all.
- Asia Team
- 18 July 2025
- GHRD Team
- 17 July 2025
- Asia, Fiji
- Democracy, Elections, Protests
Two years after voters ended Fiji’s long, strongman era, rallies still require police protection, and reform bills die in an ‘unamendable’ constitution. Democracy returned, but dissent travels in a narrow, patrolled lane.
