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The film’s release on World Rainforest Day 2025 highlights Kayan River communities impacted in North Kalimantan.
The aftermath of a junta airstrike on Naung Lin Village, Nawnghkio, which was bombed on March 28, 2025. (Danu People’s Liberation Front) UPDATED at 9:30 a.m. ET on 2025-04-01 Junta airstrikes ...
Rescuers carry the body of a victim, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Reuters) Rescuers in Myanmar and Thailand continued their search for survivors ...
Physician Pittaya Lhawong, director of Sop Moei Hospital in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province, travels with a public health team to examine patients in Mae Hong Son province near the border with ...
A man holds a Guam flag during a peace rally in Hagatna, Guam, pictured on Aug. 14, 2017. (Tassanee Vejpongsa/AP Photo) Debate on Guam’s future as a U.S. territory has intensified with its legislature ...
Pacific delegates have been left “shocked” by the omission of sexual and reproductive health rights from a key declaration at the 69th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women meeting in New York. This ...
A “Save Sritex” armband is seen on the arm of the statue for company founder Muhammad Lukminto as workers at the textile factory listen to a farewell speech in Sukoharjo, Central Java, Indonesia, Feb.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte speaks to journalists at her office in Metro Manila in response to the House filing Articles of Impeachment against her, Feb. 7, 2025. (Gerard Carreon/BenarNews) ...
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special representative on the situation of human rights in North Korea, delivers his report before the Human Rights Council in Geneva, March 9, 2020. (Fabrice ...
Middle school students participate in a demonstration against free school lunches in Enarotali, the capital of Paniai regency in Indonesia’s Central Papua province, Feb. 24, 2025. (Abeth You/BenarNews ...
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (center, in red shirt) and senatorial candidates of his Partido Demokratiko Pilipino party gesture during a proclamation rally ahead of the midterm ...
A man participates in a protest outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, in The ...