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Rescued children ‘not returned to Myanmar’
Post Reporters, Published on 26/03/2024
» The Social Development and Human Security Ministry has not sent 19 stateless children who were rescued in Lop Buri back to their origins in Myanmar, minister Varawut Silpa-archa said on Tuesday.
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Cynthia Maung seeks Thai citizenship
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/02/2023
» Dr Cynthia Maung, the founder and director of the Mae Tao clinic in Tak's Mae Sot district and an ethnic Karen born in Myanmar, has applied for Thai citizenship after helping to provide health services for patients along the border for three decades.
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'Kru Thi' hailed as river guard
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 26/05/2022
» Niwat Roykaew, a teacher, activist as well as founder of the Chiang Khong Conservation Group in Chiang Rai province, has been awarded a 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the world's pre-eminent awards for grassroots environmental activism.
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Senate picks Wasan for rights panel
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 27/01/2021
» Former MCOT chief Wasan Paileeklee has been chosen by the Senate to sit on the National Human Rights Commission, a source said on Tuesday.
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Parks Dept rejects Karen call to return
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/01/2021
» The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has rejected a request by a group of evicted Karen villagers to be allowed to resettle in their ancestral home deep into a forest at the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi.
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How to help the elderly and stateless
Oped, Published on 01/10/2020
» At 82, Alae Ngua, an ethnic Lisu hilltribe villager who lives in Chiang Rai's Mae Chan district, has for the first time in his life received an identity card that certifies he is a Thai citizen.
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With social media and academia, villagers save ancestral forest
Published on 29/09/2020
» CHIANG RAI: The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in Chiang Khong district of this northern province had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.
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NHRC judge plea is futile
News, Editorial, Published on 10/10/2019
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has suffered another major setback. Last week, NHRC chairman, What Tingsamit, called on the chief judges of the Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court to appoint a new commissioner to enable the agency to function temporarily.
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Angkhana receives Magsaysay award
Online Reporters, Published on 02/08/2019
» Angkhana Neelapaijit, who resigned as human rights commissioner two days ago, has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
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Sad day for human rights
News, Editorial, Published on 01/08/2019
» The decision of two human rights commissioners, namely Tuenjai Deetes and Angkhana Neelapaijit, to resign from the independent agency after a long period of compromise is a heavy blow to the commission and many underprivileged people, especially those marginalised by the state.
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