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Handling refugees
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/04/2023
» Re: "Refugees 'voluntarily' go home", (BP, April 8).
Running for refugees
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 01/02/2018
» A charity run for refugees will be organised by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Google Thailand on Feb 18 in Bangkok.
The refugees' witness
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 23/07/2018
» Documenting the heart-wrenching and often emotionally distressing images of the Rohingya refugee crisis is not for the vulnerable or faint-hearted.
Refugees, not 'escapees'
News, Postbag, Published on 17/02/2019
» Re: "Cops recapture 2 Uighur escapees", (BP, Feb 15).
Give refugees shelter
News, Postbag, Published on 06/04/2021
» Re: "Thailand must lend a hand to the Karen" (Opinion, April 5) and "56 fleeing Karen refugees sent home" (BP, April 1).
Respect for refugees
News, Editorial, Published on 01/02/2023
» On Feb 1, 2021, the world was shocked as the Myanmar military staged a coup, pushing the country formerly seen as a new poster-boy of democracy back to an Orwellian state.
Refugees face deepening crisis
Editorial, Published on 16/02/2025
» US President Donald Trump's abrupt suspension of USAID funding has left more than 80,000 refugees in Thailand adrift without essential medical care. Clinics have shut their doors. Medicines are running out. Lives are now hanging in the balance.
Uighur refugees deserve freedom
News, Omer Kanat, Published on 20/11/2018
» On Aug 1, 2018, Bilal, a 27-year-old Uighur refugee, died in a Thai immigration detention facility, where he had been held since March 2014. Thai police and volunteers from a local NGO helped with funeral arrangements and Bilal was buried in an Islamic cemetery far from his family and homeland.
Thailand must help refugees
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/04/2021
» As the Thai-Myanmar border situation becomes ever more tense, with more fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic groups, particularly the Karen National Union (KNU), Thailand is bracing for another humanitarian challenge.
Stop deporting Cambodian refugees
Oped, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 01/12/2021
» The recent deportation of three internationally recognised Cambodian refugees provoked an international outcry, much to Thailand's embarrassment. The first two were deported from Thailand on Nov 9, while the third was sent back home on Nov 20 to also face the risk of political persecution. Such efforts to "push back" refugees have regrettably tarnished Thailand's generally commendable policy and practice of offering refuge to persons fleeing persecution and other dangers from foreign territories. This is all the more poignant since Thailand's human rights record is in the middle of being assessed in Geneva under the UN's Universal Periodic Review (UPR).