Human Rights

Rizal looked in all directions: there was only water, the boat, and themselves, no other vessels to be seen on the undulating sea that breathed like a living thing, seething in the encroaching darkness. Li reduced speed to a trawl and emerged scowling, turning on a light above the wheelhouse to illuminate the deck as night descended quickly around them.

Sometimes, the question of whether you could do something is really whether or not you should. I knew I could write a book about the hardships faced by Taiwan’s community of Southeast Asian migrant fisherman, caregivers, and factory workers. I had the material. I’d done the research. I’d put the years in.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Manila’s rental ‘apartment tombs’ offer a temporary solution to families unable to afford a permanent plot to bury their loved ones. But what happens when the five-year term expires?

Children in Manila’s poorest neighbourhoods are paying an especially heavy price for the anti-drugs campaign of the Philippine president, which has taken thousands of lives since he came to power. Photographs by Paul Ratje

Families who cannot afford to pay funeral parlour expenses to claim bodies of relatives watch them buried en masse.

An Indonesian fisherman’s body dumped at sea, another returned bloodied and emaciated; a domestic helper sexually abused by five employers - two shocking cases that shine a light on the plight of imported workers on the island

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan