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Verdict a blow to customary land rights
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/06/2018
» Ask the centenarian Ko-ee Mimee and other Karen forest dwellers what they want and why they sued Kaeng Krachan National Park officials who burned down their homes and violently evicted them from their ancestral land, and their answer is always the same: "We just want to be back home."
Waging war on farm chemicals
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/03/2018
» Severely sick and on the verge of miscarrying, Supalak Suwan didn't have to think twice when her doctor told her she would have to choose between sticking with her job, which meant continued exposure to toxic farm chemicals, or having a healthy baby.
Deforestation woes have their roots in money
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/12/2012
» With our country's forests dwindling dangerously, it has become common to hear forest bosses talking about themselves as heroic guardians.