Olivia Enos, policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, specializes in human rights and transnational criminal issues. These include human trafficking and human smuggling, drug trafficking, religious freedom, and other social and humanitarian challenges facing Asia.
The brutalities endured by Burma’s Rohingya—the country’s most vulnerable population—were bad even before the recent coup. The US response must take their plight into account, or risk making it even worse.
Hannah So & Olivia EnosFebruary 16, 2021
This week the Chinese Communist Party approved a decision to “establish and enhance the legal framework and enforcement mechanisms for…
Olivia Enos & Mark MeltonMay 29, 2020
An estimated 74.6 percent of North Korean defectors become victims of human trafficking in China, and the situation is worse for female defectors.
Olivia Enos & Yujin KimOctober 2, 2019
Managing editor Drew Griffin sits down with Olivia Enos of the Heritage Foundation to discuss the ongoing crisis in Hong Kong, human rights, and the plight of Christians and Communist China.
Olivia EnosAugust 26, 2019
New reports detail how the Chinese Communist Party is now systematically separating Uighur children and parents to transform their communities and shape their individual responses to God-given choices.
Olivia Enos & Sarah BrownAugust 14, 2019
When Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Hong Kong’s Legislative Council originally introduced the proposed extradition law in late March 2019, they could never have predicted the firestorm it would set off.
Olivia Enos & Sarah BrownAugust 13, 2019
Olivia Enos—a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, for President Trump’s second summit with Kim Jong-un—reviews the current economic and human rights situation in North Korea, what happened at the summit, Trump canceling military exercises, and Kim continuing his missile program. She also gives her advice for what the US should do next.
Olivia Enos & Mark MeltonMarch 14, 2019
The US and South Korea should have contingencies ready in case negotiations with North Korea don’t go as planned.
Olivia EnosApril 26, 2018
The Burmese military is the primary perpetrator of violence against Rohingya. Villages in Maungdaw township on the border with Bangladesh are almost completely empty because Rohingya fled the brutal violence. The United Nations is calling it a textbook case of ethnic cleansing, and Human Rights Watch believes it may constitute crimes against humanity.
Olivia EnosOctober 24, 2017
Regardless of the ethnicity of the women in the CNN documentary, the fact remains that child sex trafficking is a problem in Cambodia.
Olivia EnosAugust 4, 2017