by GC Asia Pacific | Dec 28, 2020 | Blog
Sharmila Bhandar, APMA 2020, Nepal The term “chaupadi” might be a little-known word for the people living outside Nepal, but it has profound implications on Nepali women’s rights, especially in the country’s western region. It is the ritual that isolates menstruating...
by GC Asia Pacific | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog
Graciela Ann Awkit, APMA 2020 Philippines Since 2019, there was–again–a big push in the Philippine congress to lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) in the country, from 15 to 9 years old. Yes, 9 years old. This has caused national...
by GC Asia Pacific | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
Mubei Li, APMA 2020, China A video of a group of maskless people parading through a Target store in Florida in the USA went viral on social media last September 2020. In the video, one of the protesters can be heard saying “If you want to wear a mask and think (it)...
by GC Asia Pacific | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog
Yogi Paramitha, APMA 2020, Indonesia Indonesia has a high rate of violence against women. In this patriarchal society, women are seen as the second-class citizen in which their rights are very often being overlooked. According to the National Commission on the...
by GC Asia Pacific | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
Raazi Muhammadh Jaabir, APMA 2020, Sri Lanka “They burned my wife.”’ Shafeek Rinosa, tears streaming down his cheeks, mumbled these words. Hair dishevelled and barely able to talk, his face covered with a small white towel, Shafeek sat uncomfortably on an old broken...
by GC Asia Pacific | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
Saajidha Majdhee, APMA 2020, Maldives Women have been elected to the People’s Majlis, the Parliament of the Maldives, since the 70’s. Ideally there should be more women in the parliament by now, even if we haven’t reached a point of equality. There were 5 women among...
