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News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 05/08/2016
» The constitution alone cannot heal political divisions, according to constitutional experts.
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.
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.
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/02/2016
» Civil society has given the thumbs down to the Meechai draft charter saying it revokes the rights and liberties enshrined under previous constitutions, with some NGOs threatening to vote against it during the referendum if the draft is not changed.
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.
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.
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 09/04/2015
» The new constitution will produce reconciliation by design, where rival parties would be compelled to work together in a "grand coalition government", charter drafters say.
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.
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.
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.