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Border tactics need review
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2025
» The war of words between controversial activist Guntouch "Gun Jompalang" Pongpaiboonwet and Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit reflects the flaws in the army's handling of the simmering border conflict with Cambodia.
Reimagining human rights and China?
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 23/09/2024
» Should human rights be reimagined, especially in the context of China? From one angle, the answer is obvious. Plenty of norms are already agreed upon globally without the need for reimagination, and China is part of that universality. Yet given the situation on the ground level and the evolving nature of human rights, there might be room for some innovative reimagination, and this deserves balanced reflection.
Righting the wrongs of development
News, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 27/03/2023
» A key issue with which the world community has had to grapple since the end of the Second World War is that of "development", especially from the angle of national and international measures to ensure responsiveness to the rights and needs of the peoples of the land, without discrimination and violence, and to overcome historical and other injustices.
OHCHR hails push to end abductions
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/11/2022
» The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) has praised the enactment of Thailand's Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act, 2022, but noted that more could've been done to meet international standards.
Plea to give Karen a say in Kaeng Krachan forest
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 30/08/2021
» Environmental conservation must go hand in hand with the protection of local indigenous communities' rights in Thailand's newly inscribed natural World Heritage site, the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex, experts say.
Cops told to 'adjust' rally strategies
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/08/2021
» The national police chief has instructed officers to adjust their crowd control operation in the Din Daeng and Victory Monument areas, the scene of anti-government protests.
Preserve at-risk local languages
News, Shigeru Aoyagi and Cynthia Veliko, Published on 07/06/2021
» A language is more than just a means of communication. It's also a way of seeing and understanding our world.
'We did nothing wrong'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/03/2021
» Police have defended their harsh actions against protesters at Sanam Luang on Saturday night amid mounting criticism from activists and academics.
Lawmakers back Section 112
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/12/2020
» Senator and MPs have voiced support for the lese majeste law after a pro-democracy group called on the UN to stop the government prosecuting protest leaders for insulting the monarchy.
Thai critics need state protection
News, Editorial, Published on 29/11/2020
» Sitanan Satsaksit, the sister of pro-democracy activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit, who was abducted in Phnom Penh, arrived in the Cambodian capital earlier this month, together with legal aides, to seek answers about her brother's disappearance.