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Contemporary politics in the Philippines shows how emotions can inform human rights advocacy

  • Syme de Leon,

Duterte has used emotion to his advantage, so how can human rights be articulated to resonate more?

Learning how to say ‘you’ in Indonesian: why it’s time to embrace its complexity

  • Associate Professor Dwi Noverini Djenar,

There is a seemingly simple aspect of Indonesian that eludes learners: how to say ‘you’ to an addressee.

How Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ is being significantly opposed within the Philippines

  • David Lozada,

A great deal of attention has been given to international opposition to the ‘war on drugs’, but domestic opposition has also had an impact.

Death penalty for apostasy: Selected Sunni and Shi’a scholars’ views in favour of abolition

  • Dr Ali Akbar & Professor Abdullah Saeed,

A change of religion is a personal matter and should not lead to any form of punishment, let alone the death penalty.