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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

Using fun elements such as challenges, goals and rewards, games are playing a significant role in learning, lifestyle management and disease awareness.

The battle to reduce road deaths

In the move to a more sustainable and safer future, tackling road accident injuries and fatalities will require a more concerted effort.

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

Cyber scams are rising globally, targeting the vulnerable, especially youth. Understanding tactics and regional efforts is key to a safer cyberspace.

The alternatives which can help prevent suicide

There are other legislations and programmes to help prevent suicide other than criminalising suicide attempts.

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Why decriminalising suicide is not enough

Malaysia’s move to decriminalise suicide is a positive step but much more is needed to help those suffering.

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How Malaysia can get serious about child marriage

There are still many loopholes in Malaysia’s legal system that allow underage girls to be married.

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Voices still missing from online activism

The internet allows women to find solidarity but it doesn’t allow everyone to have an equal voice.

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When Tunisia changed its laws to protect women, it shook the Arab world

Arab women have been suffering from layers of marginalisation and invisibility over the years but a nation is leading the way to change that.

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How women holding flowers held Japanese courts to account

For a protest movement to succeed, it must fit within the cultural landscape of its environment.

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South Asian women pushing back against rape culture

Violence against women in South Asia remains high, but women are slowly gaining wins through online activism.

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Violence continues under Indian piecemeal approach

Legislation from last century allows paramilitary violence to continue in the North East of India.

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Civil society the key to preventing an Indonesian police state

Reforming the Indonesian police needs to be driven from the bottom up by civil society groups.

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Police a missing passenger in Indonesia’s reform train

Indonesia’s constitution separated the military from civilian politics after the fall of Suharto in 1998. But the police didn’t get the memo.

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The insidious take-over of Mexico’s police

Disorganised attempts to improve policing in Mexico have led to the slow creep of the army and skyrocketing murder rates.

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How games can inform, educate and raise awareness

The battle to reduce road deaths

The ‘scamdemic’ affecting everyone

The alternatives which can help prevent suicide

Why decriminalising suicide is not enough

How Malaysia can get serious about child marriage

Voices still missing from online activism

When Tunisia changed its laws to protect women, it shook the Arab world

How women holding flowers held Japanese courts to account

Violence continues under Indian piecemeal approach

Civil society the key to preventing an Indonesian police state

Police a missing passenger in Indonesia’s reform train

The insidious take-over of Mexico’s police

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