Hong Kong’s feminist backslide Linda Wong, a Hong Kong lawyer and women’s-rights advocate, described the current situation as “the new National Security Law regime”.

My latest: Yesterday, a press conference was held ahead of the publication of "Biographical Accounts of Anti-Constitutional Actors (반헌법행위자열전)." The project will span 12 volumes; t identifies and profiles 312 public officials between the Rhee Syngman and Roh Tae-woo governments.

96 child abuse deaths in S Korea in 5 years, most involving parents Nearly 100 children in South Korea died from abuse over the past five years, most at the hands of their own parents, according to police data covering tens of thousands of reported cases nationwide.

South Korean President Lee orders stronger protections after stalking victim’s murder Criticism mounted that authorities had failed to properly protect the victim despite multiple warning signs before a fatal stabbing in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province.

South Korea has a huge gender pay gap. Seoul wants to bring it into the open https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/gender/south-korea-has-a-huge-gender-pay-gap.-seoul-wants-to-bring-it-into-the-open

Thinking of Dolores Huerta and victims of sexual abuse around the world.

A Tokyo court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Japan’s restrictions on voluntary sterilization by women.

@tamarherman.com @areum.bsky.social thoughts on the latest BTS scandal? White washing Black-Korea history out of their Arirang trailer?

A South Korean government-run research institute has found that gender discrimination remains the most common social risk factor for health among young women. www.koreaherald.com/article/1068...

Re-posting in honor of #InternationalWomensDay

The gender pay gap at South Korea’s major conglomerates still hovers near 30 percent while women make up roughly one-quarter of the workforce, a report showed Sunday. www.koreaherald.com/article/1068...

The Hong Kong people’s demand for democracy was met not only with batons and tear gas, but with violations and a lack of accountability designed to instill fear among women and girls — to keep Hong Kong women from engaging in the protests. www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Officially made it to South Korea! I’ll be here until May, dm if you wanna connect.

A growing number of local governments across Japan are making it easier for male workers to take paternity leave.

New Taliban penal code puts husbands on par with ‘slave masters’ and legalises domestic violence A Kabul-based legal adviser says it is now ‘impossible for women to get any justice’ in the Taliban-run courts.

As we in America look for ways to defend our democracy under threat, we can draw inspiration from the resistance of young women in China. Text of my recent speech to the Jimmy Carter Forum on US-China Relations uscnpm.org/analysis/wom...

The Japanese Justice Ministry is moving toward revising Japan's anti-prostitution law to punish the sex buyers, addressing a legal imbalance that has only targeted the sellers for 70 years, according to government sources.

The president claims that his occupation of DC made the city safer. Experts say it did nothing of the sort. “Virtually everything the administration is doing is pro-crime.”

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Well-researched and fascinating look at feminism & the gender divide in South Korea. Honestly if US men keep acting like they have I see the US going this way too. It seems like SK men have had it good for a long time & are stubbornly refusing to give up their controlling power in relationships

"On Saturday I complained that the national media seems to have moved on from Minnesota…Today I want to explain why the media has failed." Read @jvl.bsky.social's new Triad only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-na...

'Two Women Living Together' suggests a new kind of family Co-written by Kim Ha-na and Hwang Sun-woo, two friends who decided in their 40s to buy a home together rather than marry, the book chronicles their decision to grow old together under one roof. www.koreaherald.com/article/1067...

Now updated with the verdicts delivered this afternoon. While Yoon was sentenced to life imprisonment with labour in the first trial, the court also sentenced five co-defendants to prison terms and found two not guilty.

South Jeolla Province has apologized after the Jindo County head said South Korea should "import young virgins from Sri Lanka or Vietnam." koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-02...

Keeping track of all the developments since Yoon declared martial law isn't easy. However, I've been maintaining a chronology on my site, and it covers most key details. Hope it is helpful to others interested! I'll update it again after today's verdicts. jackwgreenberg.substack.com/p/chronology...

South Korea's slow shift for single mothers, through their eyes Still rare and stigmatized, nonmarital births on the rise as support systems expand to encourage parenthood www.koreaherald.com/article/1067...

Expand assisted reproductive services to unmarried women, Hong Kong lawmaker says amid record low births In Hong Kong, assisted reproductive services, such as in-vitro fertilization (IVF), are restricted to heterosexual married couples.

Pushed to margins, women vanish from Bangladesh's political arena Despite helping to spearhead the uprising that led to the upcoming Bangladeshi elections, women are poised to be largely excluded from the South Asian country's political arena.

@timmiller.bsky.social and I covered a lot of ground with Sam Harris on Making Sense. Give it a listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlBZ...

Support for people with disabilities to live in the community remains lackluster despite recurring cases of abuse in residential facilities www.koreaherald.com/article/1067...

If American journalists want a guide on how to handle interviews with Trump apologists, then Lewis Goodall offers a very clear approach. Don’t let them off the hook. youtu.be/iv-6UN9zj30?...

Despite recognising the pitfalls of AI, young adults and children across South Asia continue to use it for emotional, academic, and professional support. But experts worry that without sufficient guardrails, this reliance could have a negative impact. www.asiandispatch.net/why-are-chil...

Seats Without Sway: Women in Indonesia’s Parliament Women’s presence in Indonesia’s parliament still falls short of the 30 per cent quota. They are also underrepresented in parliamentary bodies handling strategic issues and in their leadership ranks.

If you’re looking to support access to Asia-focused opportunities for young people of color during a moment of DEI rollback, consider donating to @usnabea.org usnabea.org/hong-bao-2026

An American news institution is dead. Help build the next great newsroom. At The Bulwark, we will always be honest and direct about this administration and what it’s doing to America. We will never back down. So ride with us @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/an-america...

Taiwanese women spent more than three hours per day on average providing unpaid care in 2024, only slightly less than five years before, with married and partnered women doing more housework than others, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) data showed. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

It took a long time to approve. But finally, after a three-year trial run, women in Japan can now buy the morning-after pill nationwide without a prescription. The move comes after years of opposition - including from men in Japan's medical community.

Changes must be made across a wide range of settings to overcome deeply rooted gender roles and achieve gender equality, Rengo head Tomoko Yoshino said in an interview.

Emergency contraceptives to help prevent unintended pregnancy became available over-the-counter in Japan for the first time, allowing the drugs to be purchased at about 5,400 pharmacies and drugstores nationwide. 👉 ebx.sh/VLPdSE

Women taking their husband’s last names is still popular among heterosexual couples in the U.S. and the U.K. But in China, Vietnam, Korea, Ethiopia, and Senegal women keeping their last name after marriage isn’t a law, it’s a cultural norm.

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

Anyone else find Bridgeton season 4 ep. 1 so predictably dull?

Once again, we cancelled $86M in Dept of Education funding across all of America’s universities for area & foreign language studies - programs created during the Cold War expressly for national security purposes - because we were told we couldn’t afford it & it wasn’t a government priority anymore.

The Olympic Games are supposed to symbolize peace, cooperation, and shared humanity. Naturally, the United States looked at that tradition and said: You know what this needs? ICE.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

In Emi Yagi’s surreal novel, statues can speak, so the story unfolds in a museum on Mondays when a girl is paid to be a conversation partner in Latin for a statue of Venus.