ASEAN’s Commission on the Protection of the Right of Women and Children is supposed to show ASEAN’s commitment to women’s empowerment. Yet it and ASEAN itself lag behind other organizations in presenting, collating gender-disaggregated data.  Reporting ASEAN’s Amanda Siddhartha reports for the 2017 fellowship program of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance.

Long known for their service in local communities, charity efforts and help during humanitarian disasters, faith-based groups gathered in Bangkok recently to discuss how their work could contribute to deepening socio-cultural and other linkages in the ASEAN Community. Mia Gomez reports on the meeting in this ‘Reporting ASEAN: 2015 and Beyond’ story.