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How should we build workers’ media? With a small staff and volunteers, the MAP radio in Thailand provides both critical information and much-needed entertainment to migrant workers from Myanmar, while navigating logistical and political hurdles. Its experience offers important lessons.
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Starting next month, women may obtain abortions up to the 20th week of pregnancy – eight more weeks than before – but advocates say the law still falls short of providing access to safe abortions for all women.
Though the new law promulgated yesterday allows women to terminate pregnancies (...)
Detention without trial and denial of bail is injustice! Youths have the right to determine their country’s future!
To the Prime Minister, The Government of Thailand
To the President, the Supreme Court of Thailand
We, La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, express our deep (...)
Part One: Thailand—A Queer Haven?
In January 2020, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) launched a website as part of LGBT+ travel marketing outreach called #GoThaiBeFree. TAT posted a series of five video clips on social media showcasing LGBT+ couples enjoying the best that Thai tourism has (...)
Labour activists claim authorities are selectively enforcing pandemic rules to suppress organising.
When the Thai government in May ordered a Hong Kong clothing company to pay unpaid wages to 1,250 laid-off Thai factory workers, union leader Sia Jampathong knew the rare win would not be the (...)
The recent incursion by a Myanmar MiG-29 fighter jet into Thai airspace is par for the course in the intimate ties between the militaries of both countries.
Myanmar’s military, also known as the Tatmadaw, in fact wants to be more like its Thai counterpart. The Royal Thai Armed Forces, on the (...)
Corrections officials said Tuesday afternoon that they are investigating how “stressed” inmates sneaked pain killers and sharp objects into prison after three incarcerated activists attempted suicide.
Ayut Sinthoppan, Department of Corrections director, said in a statement that he and his team (...)
The Chao Phraya River is born from mountain streams in northern Thailand, flowing hundreds of kilometers south to the sea. By the time the river travels through Bangkok and empties into the Gulf of Thailand, it is carrying huge quantities of plastic waste – an estimated 4,000 tonnes every year. (...)
Few signboards foretell the global issues of our time better than what is addressed at the annual meetings of the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) in Singapore. After a pandemic-induced two-year hiatus, the most recent SLD covered the gamut on the main stage, from the United States-China geostrategic (...)
“Top or bottom?” “You’ll never find true love being gay,” “How do you have sex?” “Lesbianism is fixed by sex with a man.” They just gonna go on and on.
On the surface, Thailand seems to be one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly places in the world. But the same persistent attitudes and stereotypes say (...)
In cooperation with the convenor, Nhu Truong, New Mandala is pleased to share a series of articles based on papers presented at the People’s Power and Resistance in Southeast Asia Roundtable at the 35th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. You can read all of (...)
Royal Thai Army responds to viral video of soldiers dismantling border-bridge used by refugees, denies wrongdoing
(BANGKOK, May 6, 2022)—The Government of Thailand should urgently provide official protective status to Myanmar refugees and prevent any refoulement or forced returns of refugees (...)
Government data says 2 million out of 12 million senior citizens have yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and many more have yet to get their booster shots, despite established evidence that the elderly population is most at risk in the face of Omicron’s onslaught.
Medical (...)
Protestors against the Thai establishment have found a new form of defiance: demanding offenders’ right to bail. The ‘Stand, Stop, Imprison’ campaign has spread far and wide, largely due to its less controversial nature.
The Thai authorities have been using legal instruments to ‘strike back’ (...)
The recent move to expel Amnesty International from Thailand is yet another indicator of the growing influence of the ultra-royalist political faction in Thailand.
Amnesty International, the global human rights advocacy NGO headquartered in London, is under threat in Thailand. On 11 February (...)
One of the key campaigners for a long-delayed bill banning torture and enforced disappearances said this morning people would have to “wait and see” what happens to it in the Senate after it was passed unanimously in the House of Representatives.
Angkhana Neelaphaijit, who rose to prominence as (...)
Arnon and Penguin remain jailed after one of the courts they have cases before, the Bangkok South Criminal Court, denied bail to them, according to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights.
Supporters of Thailand’s pro-democracy movement raised millions of baht within a few hours last night to help (...)
Nestled in a leafy area of Wat Thong Nopphakun in an unnoticeable neighborhood near Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River, the 1932 People’s Space Library is tough to find – and maybe that’s a good thing.
One day after it opened late last month, five plainclothes police officers raided the place to search (...)
Jakarta — For the first time on Thursday February 3, a Kamisan (Thursday) action has been held in Thailand. The action was held in front of the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok.
Kamisan activist and Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) member Ahmad Sajali said that the (...)
First it was the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it is the aftermath of Myanmar coup. For the hundreds of thousands of Myanmar migrants trying to find work and make a living in Thailand, the hurdles are sizeable.
For years, millions of Myanmar citizens have sought work abroad due to poverty in the (...)
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