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Draft 'no answer to conflict'
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/08/2016
» The constitution alone cannot heal political divisions, according to constitutional experts.
Isan offers no easy path for CDC draft
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/05/2016
» NORTHEAST: Two years after the coup, urban middle-class voters and rural residents in the country's Northeast, the biggest stronghold of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, remain split on whether the junta-commissioned draft charter should be passed at the August referendum.
Scholars call for changes to CDC draft
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/02/2016
» Mahidol University, the Law Reform Committee and civic groups have demanded a more relaxed political environment and the inclusion of human rights provisions in the draft constitution.
NHRC 'risks decline' without autonomy
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/12/2015
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) must work harder to prove its worth and the agency's independence must shine through in the new constitution to save itself from further downgrades, leading academics say.
Government 'must heed' lesson of Black May
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/05/2015
» The May 1992 massacre should serve as a forceful reminder to current military leaders not to expand their powers through an undemocratic constitution, according to those who participated in the bloody protests.
CDC split on gender quotas
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 28/02/2015
» The failure of charter drafters to decide on gender quotas for elected bodies may have prompted social activist Thicha Na Nakorn to resign from the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), says a member.
Politics-linked inmates get help
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 25/02/2015
» The Constitution Drafting Committee's (CDC) reconciliation panel pledged to help prisoners jailed for acts of political violence seek pardons after visiting them in prison yesterday.
Civil society splits on work for regime
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 11/11/2014
» Prominent members of civil society are calling on their peers on the charter drafting and reform committees to push for the lifting of martial law before the two panels move on with their work.