Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DUNCAN Kiana, RAKKANAM Pimuk
Many workers from neighbors like Myanmar make less than the minimum wage and feel powerless to complain.
Migrant workers play a vital role in Thailand as its population ages and its labor-intensive industries struggle to fill jobs but they often miss out on the remuneration they are entitled (…)
Thai authorities are helping neighboring governments to take unlawful actions against refugees and dissidents from abroad, making Thailand increasingly unsafe for those fleeing persecution. These targets of transnational repression have gotten caught up in a “swap mart” in which foreign (…)
, by CAMPBELL Stephen
For several decades, the town of Mae Sot along the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand has been the primary entry point for Myanmar migrants arriving in the country.
Mae Sot is a major production site for Thailand’s garment sector, which employs primarily Myanmar migrants in several hundred (…)
, by Fortify Rights
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 (…)
, by ROJANAPHRUK Pravit
BANGKOK — Labor rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to rethink its policy of putting hundreds of migrant workers in the same residential buildings without segregating those who caught the virus from those who did not.
Food, unemployment assistance, and more sanitary quarantine (…)
, by COLBEY Adele
This World Refugee Day, Prachatai English investigates the discrimination faced by African refugees and migrants at the hands of the Thai police. Racially motivated arbitrary arrests and raids make daily life a constant struggle for Africans living in Thailand, who struggle to get by in deeply (…)
, by AFP
Dozens of people arrested in Thailand’s human trafficking crackdown, including a senior general, appeared in court Tuesday, days after the police officer in charge of the investigation tendered his resignation saying he feared for his life.
The kingdom has long been a major hub for human (…)
, by UNGPAKORN Giles Ji
In an attempt to prove itself to be even more repressive and “manly” Prayut’s vile military junta is playing the nationalistic and racist card.
Hundreds of thousands of workers from Cambodia and Burma are being persecuted and driven out of the country. As usual the junta claims they are (…)
, by Altsean-Burma, FIDH, UCL (Thailand)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (Altsean-Burma)
OPEN LETTER
HE Mr. Abhisit Vejjajiva Prime Minister of Thailand
HE Mr. Kasit Piromya Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
HE Mr. Sihasak Phuangketkeow (…)
, by AHRC
A Statement from 26 Human Rights Organisations forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Statement of concern on the detention of refugees and asylum seekers of Pakistani origin in Thailand
Date: 15/12/2010
We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned and shocked at the arrest (…)
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