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INTERVIEW—COVID-19 and Belt and Road: Some of the issues impacting business and human rights

  • Dr Surya Deva,

Business and Human Rights is always a controversial area, but COVID-19 and China’s Belt and Road Initiative are among the most acute challenges.

Indonesia is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis for illiberal purposes

  • Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun, Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir,

The COVID-19 crisis in Indonesia has become a means for elites to further accumulate power and money.

COVID-19 and China’s Five-Year Plan to create a ‘xiaokang’ society

  • Dr Craig Smith,

How will COVID-19 affect China’s Five-Year Plan, Xi Jinping’s blueprint for economic development?

The shrinking democratic space in India: uncivil society and an illiberal state

  • Associate Professor Sarbeswar Sahoo,

There’s been a severe crackdown on the civic space in India under PM Nahrendra Modi, which has accelerated previous trends.

Solidarity among Jakarta’s gig economy drivers

  • Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih,

The gig economy is the new frontier of precarious work, where workplace-based collective organisation is problematic.

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