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Burma: International monitoring and protection of all civilians from...
Joint Statement: Burma: International monitoring and protection of all civilians from religious and ethnic violence needed in Western Burma The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the...
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Dehumanization and death in custody of a Thai citizen accused of lese...
Asian Legal Resource Centre On 8 May 2012, Mr. Amphon Tangnoppakul (also known to his family as "Ah Kong" or "grandfather," and to the public as "Uncle SMS"), a 61-year-old man, was found dead in...
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Aung San Suu Kyi's speech to ILO ILC Geneva: migrant workers in Thailand and...
More than 80 per cent of migrant workers in Thailand are from Burma. It was presented to me that in spite of the 2003 MOU and the 2009 nationality verification process to change irregular workers...
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Call for observers--torture victim sued by Pol. Gen. Bhanupong Singhara for a...
Cross Culture Foundation On 18 and 25 June 2012, at 9:00-16:00, a trial will take place at the Criminal Court, Ratchdapisek Road (room to be determined on those dates). Mr. Sudi-Rueman was one of five...
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How to Come Good in a Police Exam
Harrison George The scene is an investigation room in the headquarters of the Royal Thai Police. A Police Captain is checking the football section of Naew Na for possible crime leads, while a...
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Unspeakable Things - new online journal issue on Thai politics, censorship,...
Sensate: A Journal of Critical Media Practice has launched a special issue of its online journal "Unspeakable Things" ["สิ่งที่แตะต้องไม่ได้"]. The first installment of the issue (two more will...
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BURMA: Reporters Without Borders saddened by death of journalist Ludu Sein Win
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn of the death overnight of the veteran Burmese journalist Ludu Sein Win in a Rangoon hospital. Formerly with the banned Ludu...
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THAILAND: Review of the renewal of Emergency Decree in the Southern Border...
Cross Cultural Foundation and Muslim Attorney Centre Foundation An open Letter, dated 15 June 2012, by the Cross Cultural Foundation and Muslim Attorney Centre Foundation to the Prime Minister,...
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Bangladesh: Stop Boat Push-backs to Burma
Human Rights Watch Children Among Those Facing Forced Return on World Refugee Day (New York, June 20, 2012) – The government of Bangladesh should stop forcibly returning ethnic Rohingya fleeing...
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Less than Adequate: AICHR Formal Consultation with Civil Society on the ASEAN...
Amnesty International, the International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Dignity International, and Article 19 welcome the first...
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Myanmar: Meet immediate humanitarian needs and address systemic discrimination
Amnesty International As the situation in northern Rakhine State remains very tense, Myanmar authorities should ensure full and unfettered humanitarian access to displaced people, and conduct an...
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Red shirts reclaim 1932 coup anniversary to advance cause
Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation As Sunday's 80th anniversary of the June 24, 1932 coup approaches, Thai society has seen a steady revival of interest - especially among red shirts - in the day that...
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UPDATE (Thailand): Call for observers in the case of a torture victim being...
Asian Human Rights Commission On 25 June 2012, at 9 am, the second of two pre-trial hearings in the case of Mr. Suderueman Maleh will take place at the Criminal Court on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok...
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National Identity Crisis and ‘Thainess’
Frank G Anderson [This abstract is for a paper intended for presentation at the Governance, Human Rights & Development:, Challenges for Southeast Asia and Beyond, Thammasat University, Bangkok,...
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Is this transparency?
Blogger and freelance financial analyst Sarinee Achavanuntakul has made some observations about the Crown Property Bureau’s recently released 2011 annual report. The Financial Highlights section of...
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Religious Dimension in the Minds of Thai Ultra-Royalists
Pravit Rojanaphruk Recently on one Facebook account (called ‘IUV’), a picture showing crowd formation that appears similar to one popular photograph of HM the King holding and talking on a walkie...
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First hearing of inquest into Fabio’s death
On 23 July, the Southern Bangkok Criminal Court held the first hearing in the inquest into the death of the Italian photo-journalist Fabio Polenghi who was killed during the government crackdown on red...
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Sondhi to testify in lèse majesté case next month
Sondhi Limthongkul, leader of the yellow-shirt People’s Alliance for Democracy, will testify in court on 21 Aug in his own defence against lèse majesté charges for repeating the words of Da Torpedo on...
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Great Expectations
Harrison George I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to report a crime to a Thai police station. It can become a somewhat surreal experience. In my own case, an unexpected motorcycle roar away from...
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THAILAND: Judiciary affirms that not standing is no crime
Asian Human Rights Commission The Asian Human Rights Commission is pleased to learn that the criminal charges brought against Chotisak Onsoong and his friend for allegedly defaming the monarchy have...
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