Women Risking Lives for the Rights of Others

East Asian countries rank among the world's most dangerous states when it comes to the lives of human rights activists, writes today “Koha Ditore”.

The BBC has talked to some of the women from the region who are being publicly humiliated by state bodies because they advocate the equal rights of women, and these women have suffered after being punished with isolation, but also physical and psychological torture as a result of their work on improving women's situation.

I didn't think I'd make it out alive.”

Maybe what has the worst experience is Chinese lawyer Wang Yu. She begins and relates her experience. It was one o'clock in the morning when she could not sleep. She was worried because she wasn't getting her expected phone call.

The man and her sixteen - year - old son were on their way to Beijing Airport to take the plane to Australia, where the boy would finish his studies. They should have already passed the control procedure. But she couldn't get in touch with them.