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ADN’s Democracy Overview 2025 — Signals from the Streets: Civic Resistance and Democratic Trajectories in Asia explores youth-led mobilisation across Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Mongolia, and the Philippines. Bringing together five grounded country cases, the report examines how movements emerge, how they sustain momentum over time, and how they engage with political systems that are often […]

We’re pleased to share Signals from the Streets: Civic Resistance and Democratic Trajectories in Asia — a new regional overview examining youth-led movements across Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, Mongolia, and the Philippines. Across very different contexts, these movements reveal similar pressures around governance, accountability, and the future — and raise important questions about how democracy is […]

GENEVA, Switzerland (5 March 2026) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and the undersigned organizations strongly demand the Central Jakarta District Court to immediately quash the charges against Indonesian human rights defenders Delpedro Marhaen, Muzaffar Salim, Syahdan Husein, and Khariq Anhar. We also urge the Indonesian Government to cease its criminalization of […]

In July 2024, protests erupted in Bangladesh, demanding a fair and non-discriminatory recruitment system for government jobs. These protests were primarily led by educated youth who had suffered from high unemployment for years due to a lack of decent job opportunities. In response, the government, led by Sheikh Hasina, launched a week-long crackdown that resulted […]

We are pleased to invite you to the sixth and final webinar in our series on Bangladesh, co-organized by the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) and the Sydney Policy Analysis Centre (SPAC). Webinar Title: Future of Democratic Transition and Reforms: Youth’s Perspectives in Bangladesh Date: July 18, 2025Time: 0900 GMTDuration: 75 minutesRegister here: https://bit.ly/Banglaweb6 With the […]

Date: June 24, 2025 | 1pm Korea Standard Time Where: Streamed Live on ANFREL Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn Channels (Link Below) Speakers: Sohee Yang, VALID Korea Brizza Rosales, ANFREL Co-Moderators: Manjesh Rana, ANFREL Soo Suh, ADN Co-Organized by ANFREL and ADN South Korea’s snap presidential election on 3 June 2025—held in the wake of Former President […]