31. Mar 2009

En helt almindelig krigsforbryder tager skraldet

InFocus

I Cambodia er det længe ventede krigsforbrydertribunal mod de tidligere ledere af rædselsregimet De Røde Khmerer ved at gå i gang. Den første på anklagebænken er tidligere fængselsdirektør Kaeng Kek Eav, også kaldet Duch. De større fisk venter.

Af Anya Palm, freelancejournalist

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20. Mar 2009

Cambodia’s wheel of history rolls on

cambodia, corruption, InFocus

Alexandra Kent
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Thirty years after the end of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, a ‘hybrid’ war crimes tribunal has finally begun. A mixed team of Cambodian and foreign lawyers have just kicked into motion with the trial of ‘Duch’, the first of five suspects to be tried. The others are Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan, Ieng Thirith, Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea.

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15. Mar 2009

Made in China. Køn og klasse på den globale arbejdsplads

cambodia, gender, InFocus

Hilda Rømer Christensen,
Lektor
Sociologisk Instititut
Københavns Universitet

Cecilia Milwertz
Seniorforsker
NIAS – Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier

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15. Mar 2009

China, gender, InFocus

In the early 1990s I started an ongoing journey in search of a Chinese worker-subject within the trajectory of China’s state socialist system’s incorporation into global capitalism. I have striven to articulate the emergence of a possible minor genre of social resistance in contemporary China, at a time when China is rapidly transforming itself into […]

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5. Mar 2009

Europe and the suffering people of Burma/Myanmar

development, InFocus, minorities, policy

Timo Kivimäki,
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

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