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Democracy in motion
Spectrum, Published on 13/10/2013
» A delivery man unwittingly transporting leaflets on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights could have been arrested in Myanmar not long ago. But this year, for the first time since the end of military rule in 2011, flyers advertising a travelling human rights film festival were freely distributed throughout markets and in the streets of towns across the country.
How Thammasat lost its faculties
Spectrum, Nattha Thepbamrung, Published on 22/09/2013
» When second-year arts student Saran Chuchai, 20, hung posters around Thammasat earlier this month of her simulating sex while wearing a uniform she triggered a debate that has forced the university to question its position as the bastion of academic liberalism in Thailand.
The two faces of Thai tolerance
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 08/09/2013
» 'At home, I could easily lose my job just by acting out as a gay person," says Richard, a 51-year-old gay man.
NHRC under fire for being 'partial to impartiality'
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/08/2013
» The report from the National Human Rights Commission on violence surrounding the 2010 red shirt demonstrations drew intense criticism almost as soon as it was put on the NHRC website on Aug 8.
Seeds of hope in forest fight
Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 14/07/2013
» Thap Lan National Park chief Taywin Meesap guides a team of rangers to a plot showing some signs of progress in the battle to win back land lost to forest encroachment.
'If I'm guilty, execute me': Abhisit on the red shirt crackdown
Spectrum, Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 19/05/2013
» Three years to the day that the events of April and May, 2010 culminated in the red shirt crackdown and the surrender of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship's leaders, Thai society remains deeply divided. Some 92 people were killed in the crackdown, from protesters to innocent bystanders, journalists to security personnel.
Divided we stand: Red shirts call for solidarity on may 19
Spectrum, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/05/2013
» Thousands of red shirts will today converge on Bangkok's Ratchaprasong shopping district to mark the third anniversary of the group's bloody battle to topple Abhisit Vejjajiva's Democrat government.
Kachin 'tortured' while under obscure detention law
Spectrum, Published on 24/03/2013
» In June 2011, some four months after giving birth to her third child, 40-year-old Ze Nyoi was supposed to be looking after her young ones and tending to her livestock, but events out of her control forced a change of plans.
'Softer' Suu Kyi riles NLD
Spectrum, Published on 17/03/2013
» Prior to the opening of the National League for Democracy's first national congress in its 25-year history, a rumour was circulating that party leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be ousted by disgruntled NLD members.
Stranded amid a sea of reforms
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 10/03/2013
» Recent progress within Myanmar is coming at the expense of ethnic villagers in the country's impoverished southeast, who who are seeing their land expropriated as development steamrollls in. That was the conclusion of ''Losing Ground'', a report released last week in Bangkok by the Karen Human Rights Group featuring the results of field studies undertaken from January, 2011 to November, 2012.