Melissa Karpouzes Neher is a human rights attorney who has lived and worked throughout Asia. She supports the work of non-governmental organizations through research, advocacy and campaigning. She joined CSW’s fact-finding visit to Malaysia in March 2006. In this article, she reveals how this visit has impacted her personally.
Today I took my 13 month old […]

They try hard to sleep at night in their makeshift huts in the jungles of Malaysia, but are jolted by the slightest sound, afraid of robbers or the police. They struggle to deal with the pain of forced separation from their spouses and children, not knowing if they will see them again. They thought life […]