By Sara L.M. Davis
Yu Hua’s New York Times op-ed, “In China, Grievances Keep Coming“, says that China’s petitioning system works alongside the legal system as a parallel way to channel thousands of individual grievances each year. In fact, as Asia Catalyst sees in our work with Chinese AIDS NGOs, the petitioning system undermines social stability.
An announcement from Greg Denham follows:
by Ken Oh
Around Asia, internet users face several barriers to doing legal research. The barriers can be political, as the recent row
between China and Google demonstrates. In some cases, developing countries do not have the capacity to provide internet access to their citizens. Finally (and likely the most easily fixed), the barriers can be more practical: once you have internet access, how do you know where to search?
By Ricky Gunawan
Rose (not her real name) has been using drugs for more than ten years. During that time, she had been arrested a number of times, and her life has been harrowing. Not long ago, she began to feel hope for the first time, when in a breakthrough decision, Indonesia’s judges decided to send her to a rehabilitation center to treat her addiction.
However, Indonesia’s rotten and corrupt judicial system dashed her hopes.
