‘Children are being choked by toxic smoke’: Schools shut in Timor-Leste as haze from Indonesia wildfires continues to affect countries across Southeast Asia

"This is not an unavoidable consequence of development or climate change. It is the result of policy choices and a failure to act. Regional governments must take urgent, ambitious action to cut pollution at its source, strengthen protections for children, and hold polluters accountable. Children cannot be expected to carry the burden of a crisis they did not create.”