The Myanmar Coup: An Interview With A Myanmar Citizen
To get a better sense of this incident on the ground, Catalyst interviewed a 28-year old Burmese citizen living in Yangon.
Category: Asia Pacific
Rebuilding the Roof of the World: Tibetan Human Rights
Once nicknamed the “roof of the world” due to the Tibetan plateau being among the highest in the world, in 2020, Tibet received the lowest score on the annual Freedom in the World Report by Freedom House, making it the “least free country in the world” tied with Syria.
Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Systematic Sexual Abuse Within China’s Internment Camps
If there is no meaningful action taken, China risks becoming another country on a list that remains too long to begin with. The costs of this failure will, most likely, be borne first and foremost by Uighur women.
How the International Community Has Failed the Uighur Minority
According to Hu Lianhe, a Communist Party official, this ‘re-education’ campaign only targets petty criminals that are assigned to “vocational education facilities for rehabilitation and reintegration” . Yet, testimonies from individuals who have worked or been detained in the camps as well as leaked information report cases of human rights violations.
Grounding the Coup: Narratives of Praetorianism and Democracy in Myanmar
Myanmar’s rapid change of political fortunes as of yesterday might easily come as woven at the centre of two narratives that seem to have defined Myanmar in the eyes of many: on the one hand, a crashing end to a story of hope and democratic change; on the other, the soft, yet inescapable, thump of a history of military despotism reasserting itself once more.
Revisiting Myanmar’s Humanitarian Crisis
While the brutal killing of Hindus and other chaos created by ARSA are condemnable and should not be ignored by the world, what many don’t see are the thousands of Rohingya who have lost their lives and homes in this endless battle, clear victims of crimes against humanity.
Myanmar Following the 2020 General Elections: An Interview with Professor Kuhonta
On November 11, 2020, Managing Editor Kai Scott sat down with Prof. Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Associate Professor in the department of Political Science at McGill University, to discuss the results of the 2020 general election in Myanmar, and what these mean for democratization in the country.
A Glimpse of Myanmar’s 2020 Elections: A Hard Road to Democracy
A future of a fully democratized Myanmar might still be distant, but with politicians like Aung San Suu Kyi, gradually improving of economic competitiveness, improved civil rights protections, and a growing civic consciousness, Myanmar’s road to democracy is by no means out of reach.
Buddhism: At the Crossroads between Philosophy and Religion
The growing appeal of Buddhism in the West has had led to an effort to recategorize and reconsider much of this sizeable belief system. But is that even a possibility? Is Buddhism a religion? A philosophy? Or does it stand in its own class: an anomaly that encapsulates over 530 million people?
After 4 Years of Trumponomics, America Still Needs Globalization
Trump has long claimed to be a successful businessman and promised time and again to rejuvenate the US economy. However, Trumponomics has ignored possible treatments for the US economy – investments into education, job creation, and upskilling – and laid the blame for the erosion of the American middle class on the globalization of labor markets