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Migrants left in quagmire by verification deadline end
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 15/12/2012
» CHIANG MAI: Migrant workers in Chiang Mai were left in confusion as the (NV) scheme ended yesterday.
Confusion as migrant verification period ends
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 14/12/2012
» CHIANG MAI -- Confusion reigned among migrant labourers as the nationality verification (NV) scheme, which mainly affects people from adjoining countries, ended on Friday, and authorities sought to calm fears of mass deportations.
Citizenship changes make way for wave of new applications
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 07/12/2012
» About 300,000 aliens are entitled to the right to register for Thai citizenship under an Interior Ministry regulation which took effect on Monday.
Road to reconciliation: Listening, being tolerant
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 27/10/2012
» Supporters of efforts to end a decade of political polarisation are seeing grounds for hope following discussions held around the country.
Police draw criticism for paying killers
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 24/10/2012
» A senior police officer's decision to provide financial assistance to five policemen found guilty of murder during the government's war on drugs in 2004 has drawn flak from relatives of the victim and a regional human rights group.
Civil groups fail to delay adoption of declaration
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 13/10/2012
» Thai civil society organisations have failed in a last-ditch effort to derail the ratification of the Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) at the 21st Asean Summit, to be held in Phnom Penh next month.
Family of ex-Chinese spy leaves Thailand
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 12/10/2012
» The wife and two children of detained Chinese government informant-turned-dissident Li Yuzhou have left Thailand for a third country.
ALRC: End impunity for state violence
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/08/2012
» The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) submitted a four-page written document to the Human Rights Council on Wednesday, calling for Thailand to abolish the tradition of impunity from punishment for violence by state officials.
B100,000 for migrant who was chained
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 29/08/2012
» Chalee Diyu, a Myanmar migrant worker who was unlawfully chained to his hospital bed by Immigration Police after he was injured at work in 2010, returned home this week after receiving compensation of 100,000 baht.
Drug war victims' kin seek redress
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 10/08/2012
» Relatives of victims of the 2004 "war on drugs" have joined with the May 1992 Network to seek government redress for the heavy-handed actions of authorities that led to the deaths and injuries of innocent civilians.