Attackers cutting off women’s hair and disappearing. In the Indian controlled Kashmir Valley, the strange attacks have sparked more unrest.

Philippines President Duterte, has been called ‘The Punisher’ for his brutal approach to drugs. But now he is beginning to be punished in the polls… as children and teenagers are murdered in his bloody war on drugs.

And in Australia, an Aboriginal activist walks his talk. Travelling 6000 kilometres across the country by foot to raise awareness of Indigenous issues.

This week, a special edition, where we focus on food sovereignty and water security.

We meet fierce Indigenous women in India’s eastern state of Odisha, who are fighting against cash crops overtaking their land.

In Indonesia, Indigenous methods of rice growing keeping one community self sufficient.

While in Pakistan arsenic in the water supply threatens to poison up to 60 million people.

We look at some solutions to the world’s growing water problems.

On the show this week, we continue to follow the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. This week from India, where the Hindu nationalist government is promising to send Rohingya back to Myanmar, where they’re likely to face extreme violence and persecution.

We take a look at Thai politics, and the impact of one very influential family of billionaires.

And the ancient art of herbal medicine in Afghanistan.

From Bangladesh, we hear from the Rohingya who have fled their homes to save their lives, but are still struggling for survival in makeshift camps.

And inside Myanmar, we ask why it is the Rohingya, one of Myanmar’s many ethnic minority groups, have never been accepted.

An outspoken Indian journalist murdered. What does it say about freedom of the press in the world’s largest democracy?

And in the US, the undocumented migrants that have become President Trump’s political pawns.

Asia is home to some of the biggest and most vibrant cities in the world. This week, we hear from a few fascinating pockets of urban life.

We catch up with the Pakistani women who are fighting for the right to enter cinemas.

And in Indonesia, women who are getting on motorbikes, and taking on the male dominated world of motorcycle taxis!

We take a trip to Hong Kong’s Little Thailand.

And, how fast food is impacting India’s vibrant culinary culture.

More than 150 000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh in the last 2 weeks. We ask if the international community’s focus on Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence is a useful response to the tragedy.

When a border was drawn between India and Pakistan 70 years ago, a horrific, bloody mass migration unfolded. We visit India’s new Partition Museum, that aims to tell the personal stories behind that momentous historical event.

A food bank in Indonesia bridging the wide divide between rich and poor.

Australia’s First People are still searching for recognition in a country that has never come to terms with its violent past. We take a look at the latest push to acknowledge Indigenous Australians.

We speak to young South Koreans, who are extremely educated, but are going through an unemployment ice age.

And a hospital in the conflict-rattled Gaza strip, which was built by Indonesians, in a show of friendship and solidarity with Palestinians.

Young Afghan refugees in Sweden hold a 2-week long protest – a peaceful sit-in, as they plead not to be sent back to Afghanistan, where conflict continues to mount.

In Pakistan, ousted Prime Minister Sharif has announced he will challenge the Supreme Court ruling that has disqualified him from office. Our correspondent asks why it is that not a single civilian Prime Minister has served a full term in the country.

And in Thailand, we meet the refugees and migrant workers who are uniting across ethnic lines that divided them in their home country Myanmar.

India recently elected an ‘untouchable’ President, that is, someone from the lowest caste has the highest office in the country.

But at the same time, ‘untouchables’ are still forced to do the worst jobs, clean toilets and sewers in unhygienic and inhumane conditions. Hundreds die doing their job every year. We consider the contradictions of India’s caste system.

In Afghanistan, we take a look at the impact of foreign funding on media, and what happens when the money dries up.

We visit an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia has become an unlikely refuge for people recovering from drug addiction and mental health issues. Welcoming people from all backgrounds, it’s now known as the ‘Islamic Boarding School for Repentant Metal Heads.’

From Australia, plans to build the country’s biggest ever coal mine have ignited a fierce debate. At stake is the future of one of the country’s best known marine environments, The Great Barrier Reef, and concerns over climate change.

This week Indonesia prepares to celebrate Independence Day – which marks 72 years of freedom from colonial rule. But in the far east of the country, some Papuans see Indonesia as a kind of colonial power. We speak with former political prisoner and Papuan activist, Filep Karma.

And on the Thai-Myanmar border, we meet refugees who have spent generation living in camps.