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Justice for poor hinges on reform
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 26/01/2012
» After 12 years of an exhaustive series of court battles, Paijit Silarak, the grassroots activist and arch enemy of Rasi Salai Dam, can finally let out a sigh of relief.
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Rape culture costs Thailand oh so dearly
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/01/2013
» The nearly 100 billion baht of taxpayers' money to finance the first-car buyer scheme would have been better used to improve public transportation. Indeed, who could argue with that? But as a mother with a daughter living in a society marked by a rape culture, I totally understand why many parents feel they cannot let this first-car scheme pass them by.
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Unprincipled capitalists need to feel the heat
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 16/10/2013
» Rows and rows of denuded mountains stretch as far as the eye can see. That is what many of the once green mountains in Nan have have now become.
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Easing the haze problem in the North
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/04/2014
» When I was in the border town of Mae Sot in Tak province over the weekend, the sky was not only cloudy and grey, the air was also dangerous to breathe.
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Prayut must make good on UN promises
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 30/09/2015
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said all the right things in his speech at the UN summit. Congratulations. The question is whether he will make good on his promises to do the right things to make the world a better place. The challenge is right here at home.
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Paying lip service to HM the King's efforts
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 02/11/2016
» After His Majesty the King's 70-year-long dedication to fight poverty, why is disparity in Thailand among the worst in the world?
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Lawsuits aggravate forest poor's plight
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2018
» The polluters must pay. Most definitely. But when state authorities encroach on indigenous peoples' customary land, send them to jail for living in "protected" forest and -- on top of that -- demand exorbitant compensation for causing global warming, this is not the "polluters pay" policy. This is oppression beyond being unjust. It's pure malice.
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The red tape is killing us, not the haze
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 08/04/2019
» It took the South Korean government just one day to declare a national emergency before containing the huge wildfires that threatened to engulf the country's northeastern coastal area this week.
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Why violence persists in our forests
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 10/06/2019
» In the corridors of power, as female politicians in opposite camps were wrangling over what-you-should-wear for their first day in the parliament, some 350 kilometres from Bangkok, 61-year-old peasant Sinuan Pasang was thrown into jail for trying to protect her land.
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Old politics no answer to climate change
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/07/2019
» Despite all-out support from the machinery of the state and the old powers, it took three months for the Prayut regime to form a government because of political infighting, raising the question of how long it will last.
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