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    Yezidi survivor demands genocide trial for jihadist leaders

    News, AFP, Published on 29/06/2016

    » Nadia Murad, a slight, soft spoken Yezidi woman from Iraq, endured a three-month nightmare as a sex slave of the Islamic State (IS) group.

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    Dangerous militarisation of Thai justice

    News, Published on 29/06/2016

    » More than two years since the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) staged a coup, the military regime continues to justify its grip on power by running the systematic militarisation of law and the judicial process against its critics, political dissidents and ordinary citizens, according to a recent report by the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. In doing so, the military has created its own versions of law and manipulated the entire justice process, depriving civilians of their rights to fair trial and violating their rights to freedoms of expression.

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    Statement on 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report

    Published on 30/06/2016

    » Human trafficking is a heinous crime that knows no borders, and creates tens of millions of victims worldwide, including men, women, and children.

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    17,410,742 Britons versus the world

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 01/07/2016

    » Thailand's recent habit of rejecting voter results through denial, manipulation and contrivance is apparently a global phenomenon. When it comes to the United Kingdom's spectacular referendum decision to leave the European Union, popularly known as "Brexit", the court of world public opinion does not like what it sees. Global critics have lamented and opined widely against Brexit voters, who numbered 17,410,742, representing a 51.89% overall majority from nearly a 72% turnout. But in many ways, Brexit may just be the wake-up call that the EU sorely needs. Making the best of Brexit should now be the task at hand rather than its reversal.

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    Our distorted referendum process

    News, Wasant Techawongtham, Published on 01/07/2016

    » Great Britain's referendum to leave the EU inevitably has been compared to the upcoming referendum on the newly drafted constitution in Thailand.

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    In tigers' best interest

    News, Postbag, Published on 03/07/2016

    » The maintenance and conservation of a large number of tigers (147) confiscated from the infamous tiger temple is a serious financial and technical challenge for Thailand.

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    The sorry state of law enforcement

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 05/07/2016

    » An air of ambivalence is shrouding the one area where lucidity is expected to shine through: the state of law and law enforcement in the country.

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    Our voices are drowned out as vote nears

    News, Umesh Pandey, Published on 08/07/2016

    » The military government's decision to set up monitoring centres in all provinces across Thailand in order to more closely monitor all political activities in the lead-up to the crucial Aug 7 referendum has turned up the political temperature.

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    'New normal' after South China Sea ruling

    News, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 15/07/2016

    » However the Philippines-China verdict is viewed and whatever its immediate consequences, the landmark ruling by the dispute-settling Arbitral Tribunal under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will bring about a "new normal" in Southeast Asia that portends more regional tensions and potential conflict in the longer term. This "new normal" means that the status quo ex ante prior to Philippines' recourse to the Tribunal in January 2013 will not be restored.

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    Shackling students tarnishes regime image

    News, Nopporn Wong-Anan, Published on 07/07/2016

    » The main photo on the front page of the Bangkok Post yesterday summed up the current political situation in Thailand.In the photo, a group of young men in prison garb and forced crew cuts walked barefoot with their ankles shackled from a jail van to hear a court's decision on whether to extend their detention, as requested by investigators.

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