“In high school, if you had long hair, the teacher would call you up to the front of the class and cut your hair in front of everyone,” Marisol, a 21-year-old transgender woman in Manila, told me. “That happened to me many times. It made me feel terrible. I cried every time.”
Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the Philippines
Assaults on Bloggers and Democracy Campaigners in Vietnam
Attacks on Students, Teachers, and Schools in Pakistan
Since taking office on June 30, 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has carried out a “war on drugs” resulting in the deaths of over 7,000 suspected drug dealers and users by January 2017.
During his fifth year in power in North Korea, Kim Jong-Un continued to generate fearful obedience by using public executions, arbitrary detention, and forced labor.
“What will happen to us?” “Will they fingerprint us?” was the constant refrain as we watched a human wave of asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan crossing the Serbia-Hungary border.
