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The move sparks concerns among rights groups and exile Uyghurs that the mostly Muslim group is being targeted for racial profiling.

The End of the Line

The port of Samut Sakhon, Thailand, is home to the third largest fishing industry in the world. Migrants have flooded the province, finding work in the ...

Su Changlan is awarded the third Cao Shunli Memorial Award for her advocacy of the rights of rural communities, and particularly rural women and girls.

The Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights wants the government to release all imprisoned female activists on International Women’s Day.

The increase in human trafficking for sex between the two nations raises concerns.

Bangladesh has asked the international community to help it move 400,000 refugees off-shore.

A demand for ransom leads to a sting, arrests and a rescue.

Thai Police Rescue Lao Girl from Human Trafficking Ring

The girl’s father, a poor rice farmer, helped police find the 13-year-old victim.

The human smuggling arrests come as Hanoi says human trafficking jumped in 2016.

The home affairs minister says the country will not accept a ‘food flotilla’ with rice and other supplies for residents of the violence-ravaged state.

The 'defector rapper' Kang Chun-hyok discusses his music, art and why rap is a metaphor for life in North Korea.

Myanmar has invited ASEAN officials to a retreat Monday in Yangon to discuss Rakhine state crisis.

Defendants in the case say a promise to let them go free once they returned was broken.

Smuggled in by truck from Russia, many never make it past the border, sources say.

After escaping forced labor on a fishing boat, a young Lao man remains stranded on an island in Indonesia.

Some schools open as the area searches for normalcy following the attacks and retaliation.

The decision by the commission against pursuing a legal case against the employers pushed them off the panel.

The office asks the Ministry of Home Affairs to provide protection to the citizen journalist who first reported the incident.

Trafficking Children in Myanmar

Analysts say it will be a huge challenge to tackle as the country is the world’s seventh worst for child labor.

They say the country’s human rights commission has failed to ensure that the perpetrators are punished.

Job losses, safety issues and law violations cited as the reasons migrant workers are repatriated.

Job losses, safety issues and law violations cited as the reasons migrant workers are repatriated.

The business sector welcomes the move, while civil society organizations and others express apprehension.

The move is expected to make it easier for American companies to invest in and trade with the Southeast Asian nation.

U.S. President Barack Obama will discuss whether remaining economic sanctions against Myanmar should be lifted.

Dire economic conditions drive men and women into China where many fall prey to human traffickers.

Hun Sen’s government declares a Khmer-Australian lawmaker persona non grata for his criticisms as it also presses cases against domestic political speech.

Hun Sen’s government declares a Khmer-Australian lawmaker persona non grata for his criticisms as it also presses cases against domestic political speech.

They are taken into custody after being abandoned by human-smugglers in a house in southern Thailand.

The men were rescued from an Indonesian fishing vessel earlier this month.