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• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  ASEAN’S divisive responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

  29 June, by TADEM Eduardo C.

  The responses of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) as a regional grouping to Covid-19 have been divisive, unclear, nonconsultative, impromptu, and driven by divergent policies, leading its member-states to control the pandemic individually and independently of each other. These (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  Statement (Asia-Pacific): For a just pandemic recovery with the workers at the center

  1 May, by Focus on the Global South

  Workers across the world have faced a series of immense setbacks with the advance of neoliberalism and expansion of global value chains that have been exacerbated in the past two years. They have borne the brunt of pandemic induced economic disruptions, wage cuts, precarious employment, job (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  Coronavirus outbreak: Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam... How some countries kept Covid at bay

  14 June 2020, by RATCLIFFE Rebecca

  As the epidemic took hold in China, many feared for its neighbours. But rapid action and clear messaging have so far contained the virus.
  Just months ago, much of south-east Asia appeared on the brink of a major coronavirus epidemic. The outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan had escalated at (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  May Day 2020 Statement by Southeast Asian Left — Build a better future for the working people in times of multiple crises

  1 May 2020, by Left parties and labour organisations (Southeast Asia)

  This statement is prepared by Left parties and labour organisations in the Southeast Asia, and endorsed by groups from within and outside the region.
  In recent months, the world has been severely affected and paralyzed by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The countries of Southeast Asia (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  Situation of workers in some South East Asian countries in the times of coronavirus pandemic

  1 May 2020, by Collective

  Philippines
  The Philippines is emerging as one of South East Asia’s worst COVID-19 hot spots. On April 21, the [official] death toll was 437, having risen by more than a hundred deaths in a week. The Duterte regimes response has been a draconian militarised lockdown — that has led to almost (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, South East Asia, ASEAN))

  South East Asia — Joint Statement: ASEAN must uphold human rights in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

  20 March 2020, by Movements (Asian)

  (Bangkok/Jakarta, 20 March 2020) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, together with the Solidarity for ASEAN Peoples’ Advocacy and the undersigned organisations, are gravely concerned with the lack of a human rights focus in the current response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by (...)

• Health (South East Asia, ASEAN)

  The March of Private Health Care in Southeast Asia

  17 January 2020, by KHOR Swee Kheng

  How can a government achieve universal coverage for all citizens in a landscape where private care is deeply entrenched?
  Southeast Asians often view health care as an entitlement from their governments—like public education or state highways—and to many people, it may also seem unethical or (...)