Forbidden from working or sending their children to school, many immigrants struggle to survive in society’s shadows.


Liz Gooch is a journalist covering Southeast Asia.
Forbidden from working or sending their children to school, many immigrants struggle to survive in society’s shadows.

Is the international aid community doing enough to protect children in vulnerable communities?

Activists, journalists and critics of Chinese leadership and authority tell stories of surveillance and threats abroad.

Women are feeling empowered to pursue careers in the Islamic justice system, from judges and lawyers to court mediators.

About 240,000 foreign maids work in Singaporean homes, but those from Myanmar are among the most vulnerable.

Thousands of girls and women in India are sold into marriage and often face a lifetime of abuse and hardship.

As the stigma associated with being childless persists, some elderly women in India risk it all to become mothers.

Men accused of rape are marrying their alleged victims in order to avoid prosecution.

After hosting Chinese asylum seekers for years, Thailand is now sending increasing numbers back to China.

Undocumented and marginalised, the children of migrants face arrest, detention and possible death in Malaysia’s Sabah.
