You’ve failed…That’s what Ms Malalai Joya - the youngest member of the Afghani Parliament says about the reconstruction of her country… it’s failed.

The US has failed and the coalition has failed. The conditions of the people of Afghanistan and especially women, are worse now than under the Taliban.

According to the 28 year old, the parliament is ruled by warlords and drug lords… and now those people will be granted amnesty for war crimes under a recently passed bill. Malalai Joya is outspoken about her contempt for the “mask of democracy in Afghanistan…

She’s in the region and the moment and Alice Brennan caught up with her.

For almost a decade 25 year old Charm Tong, has been working to help educate exiled children who have fled from the ongoing civil war in Burma.

She grew up in a refugee community on the Thai-Burmese border, she parents sent her to live with orphans from the Shan State when she was six-year-old.

Realising how difficult it was to get an education, at the young age of 16 she started helping build schools for exiled children like herself in the jungle.

Charm has just been named the winner of Norway’s Student Peace Prize. Ronald Aung Nai tells her extraordinary story.

For the past three decades, Sri Lanka’s media has been dominated by men. As things begin to change gradually, the need for gender equality in the media becomes more and more apparent. As Ruwani Gunewardena from Young Asia Television reports.

Cambodia women face many problems, they are discriminated against at work and in the home. They are not traditionally educated or given equal opportunities. They are the victims of human trafficking and domestic violence.

Mu Sochua has spent most of her life fighting to change this. She has revolutionized what women can do in Cambodia. Her work to lift women out of oppress led to her nomination for the Nobel Peace prize in 2005.

Seang Soleak spoke with her for Asia Calling.