Thai Women Use Pro-Democracy Protests To Challenge Sexism
Napawn Somsak took to the stage in her school uniform, her hair in pigtails, to denounce sexism in Thai society and question the treatment of a royal princess – an act unthinkable before the protests that have roiled the country in recent months. Before a cheering crowd of more than 2,000 people in the northern […]
Migrant Factory Workers In Thailand Launch Legal Action After Wages Expose
A group of garment workers in Thailand who were illegally underpaid while making products for global brands including Starbucks and Walt Disney Co are taking legal action to demand compensation after losing their jobs last year. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in September 2019 found dozens of migrants from neighbouring Myanmar working at several factories in the […]
Thai Female Lawyers Fight Sexist Dress Codes
Women lawyers in Thailand are petitioning to change a dress code that bars them from wearing trousers in court, saying the regulations are sexist and discriminatory. The Human Rights Lawyers Association said it would ask the Lawyers Council of Thailand to revise a decades-old requirement that female lawyers wear “international and polite attire”, including a […]
Rescued Human Trafficking Victims In Thailand Nears Record High
Demand for cheap labour in neighbouring Malaysia is causing a jump in the illegal trade The number of human trafficking victims rescued in Thailand is set to hit a record high this year, according to government data, with demand for cheap labour in neighbouring Malaysia causing a jump in the illegal trade. Thai police have […]
Myanmar Refugees Pave The Way Home In Pilot Return
More than 70 refugees have arrived safely back in Myanmar in the first voluntary return organized by the governments of Thailand and Myanmar in over 30 years. Earlier this week, a total of 71 refugees left Thailand’s Tham Hin and Nupo camps to return home to Yangon, Tanintharyi region, Kayin, Bago, Mon and Rakhine states. […]
Bridging The Language Divide In Thailand’s Strife-Torn Deep South
For Ismail Jamaat, a science teacher at Tanjung primary school, going to work can feel like entering a war zone. During the past decade, his government school has endured three firebomb attacks. In 2013, Ismail, along with scores of schoolchildren, witnessed the murder of his friend and colleague Cholathee Charoenchol by masked gunmen […]
Cambodia Proves Fertile Ground For Foreign Surrogacy After Thailand Ban
After a long day of selling snacks at her son’s primary school, Kew, who is seven months pregnant, squats on the Bangkok pavement to take a rest. The single mother has no idea whose baby she is carrying, or where its future parents live. She says it makes no difference to her. “The first […]
Cambodians Sue US And Thai Firms Over Trafficking And Forced Labour Claims
Cambodian villagers have filed a lawsuit against four companies that supply American supermarkets, claiming they were trafficked to work under slavery-like conditions in a Thai seafood factory that exports to the US. The civil lawsuit, filed in June in a California federal court, accuses the US and Thai firms of knowingly profiting from the villagers’ […]
Thailand Rocked By Eleven Bombs In One Day
Five provinces in Thailand have been hit by eleven bombings in less than a day, authorities say. At least four people have been killed and about 34 injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts — and it’s not clear if the bombings are connected. Thai police say there’s no evidence the attacks are […]
Thailand Referendum Gets Under Way As Military Seeks To Cement Power
Thailand votes on Sunday in a referendum on a new junta-backed constitution that would pave the way for a general election in 2017 but require future governments to rule on the military’s terms. The referendum is the first major popularity test for the junta led by Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as prime minister has suppressed political […]
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