In 2015, I travelled one hour north of Shiraz, to the base of the Zagros…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 20, 2020
The Responsibility to Protect report is the continuation of the Edmund Rice Centre’s determination to…
Mark IsaacsJuly 10, 2017
A statement from the Ta'ang Student Youth Union condemning the Myanmar Tatmadaw for their increasing…
Mark IsaacsJuly 3, 2017
In 2015, six years after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, I travelled…
Mark IsaacsDecember 11, 2016
In July 2015, I visited Sri Lanka to find out why people were continuing to…
Mark IsaacsDecember 7, 2016
Violence against the Rohingya people in the Rhakine state of Burma has resumed. I received…
Mark IsaacsNovember 27, 2016
There are numerous ethnic groups in Iran who claim discrimination and persecution at the hands…
Mark IsaacsSeptember 29, 2016
In 2015, I visited the Rohingya refugee camps in the southern region of Bangladesh. My…
Mark IsaacsSeptember 5, 2016
I visit Numchang village in Shan state, Burma and get an insight into daily village…
Mark IsaacsJune 2, 2016
Many Ta'ang people have been displaced due to the violence in Shan state. I snuck…
Mark IsaacsMay 27, 2016
Another source of conflict in the Shan state is opium cultivation. The local Ta'ang people…
Mark IsaacsMay 26, 2016
There is a heavy military presence in Northern Shan State. According to the local Ta'ang…
Mark IsaacsMay 24, 2016
While travelling through Burma, I was asked by a friend to assist with the Ta'ang…
Mark IsaacsMay 22, 2016
I spent a day and an evening with the Qashqa'i nomads of Fars Province, Iran.…
Mark IsaacsApril 20, 2016
I travelled with Wolftress to the Yunnan and Guizhou provinces of southern China to find…
Mark IsaacsApril 20, 2016
In the final chapter of the Wolftress China Diaries, the textile hunt comes to an…
Mark IsaacsMarch 10, 2016
Kartika and Jessie's search for textiles takes us to Yunnan province where we experience the…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 26, 2016
In our search for textiles in Southern China, Kartika, Jessie and I learn about the…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 21, 2016
In the depths of the mountain forests of Western Guizhou, live the Longhorn Miao, famous…
Mark IsaacsFebruary 18, 2016
Ali tells his story of how he left Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to Indonesia.
Mark IsaacsDecember 3, 2015
According to the travel blogs, Anshun and Shitouzhai in west Guizhou are famous for Batik…
Mark IsaacsNovember 26, 2015
I spent two months working with the Ta'ang people in the Shan state of Burma.…
Mark IsaacsNovember 20, 2015
While the idea of looking for textiles in China seems overwhelming at first, it is…
Mark IsaacsNovember 17, 2015
I meet a Rohingya man in Australia after having visited his home in the Rhakine…
Mark IsaacsNovember 13, 2015
I travelled to Mae La camp, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border.
Mark IsaacsNovember 3, 2015
I travel to Mae Sot to learn more about the Karen people and refugees and…
Mark IsaacsNovember 2, 2015
Ongoing conflict between the Rohingya Muslim population of west Burma and the Rakhine Buddhists has…
Mark IsaacsOctober 24, 2015
In March 2015, I travelled to China with Jessie Helyar and Kartika Putra. We discovered…
Mark IsaacsOctober 14, 2015