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What Tingsamitr on the way forward for the NHRC
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 19/12/2015
» Former Supreme Court judge What Tingsamitr, 65, has taken the chairmanship of the troubled National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Here he explains his roles and responds to critics’ doubts of his knowledge and experiences on human rights protection.
Lawyers urge rights body to fight abuse
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 18/12/2015
» The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) must be more active in addressing growing rights violations by the military government, human rights lawyers say.
Protect gay rights in law, govt urged
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 16/12/2015
» Thailand will have to embrace the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people if it truly believes in safeguarding human rights, as their needs are important too, activists told a seminar yesterday.
Speaking for the silent
Life, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/12/2015
» Circumstances make heroes and heroines. The more bluntly and bloodily repressive Thai society acts against the exploited and vulnerable, the more people will stand up to help protect the marginalised.
Courts likely to lift gay-themed film ban
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 04/12/2015
» The Administrative Court has advised the National Film Board to revoke the ban on a gay-themed film, Insects in the Backyard, and pay 10,000 baht in compensation for banning it for five years.
NHRC objects to downgrade in its status
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/12/2015
» The new National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will protest against the downgrading of the country's rights agency by an international body.
Man, 60, jailed over 2007 lese majeste leaflets
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 02/12/2015
» The Nonthaburi Provincial Court sentenced a 60-year-old man to six years imprisonment on Tuesday for spreading lese majeste leaflets at a provincial pier eight years ago.
In search of trust
Asia focus, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 30/11/2015
» It's a bitter and tragic story whenever we hear about casualties from bombings or shootings in the seemingly never-ending conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Many outsiders, who find the conflict confusing if they haven't tuned out the news altogether, wonder when and how it will ever end.
Climate of fear won't cover up regime's black sheep
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/11/2015
» In yet another sign of the intellectual suffocation which the regime is pressing upon us, two academics from Chiang Mai University are to appear before police for telling the military to stop interfering with academic freedom.
Scholars fret over harassment
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/11/2015
» Thai academics are concerned about ongoing harassment by the authorities of people who express their opinions.