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Thailand Deadly Denial Barriers to HIV/AIDS Treatment for People Who Use Drugs in Thailand This 57-page report found that routine police harassment and arrest – as well as the lasting effects of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s 2003 drug war – keeps drug users from receiving lifesaving HIV information and services that Thailand has pledged to provide. The report also documents how drug users face discrimination from health care workers, who continue to deny antiretroviral treatment to people who need it based on their status as drug users. HRW Index No.: C1917 November 29, 2007 Also available in 
Download PDF, 280 KB, 59 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book No One Is Safe Insurgent Attacks on Civilians in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces
HRW Index No.: C1913 August 28, 2007 Download PDF, 714 KB, 104 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book “It Was Like Suddenly My Son No Longer Existed” Enforced Disappearances in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces This 69-page report details 22 cases of unresolved “disappearances” in which the evidence strongly indicates that the Thai security forces were responsible. The report is based on interviews with dozens of witnesses, families of victims and Thai officials since February 2005. HRW Index No.: C1905 March 20, 2007 Download PDF, 386 KB, 69 pgs Purchase online Download E-Book Not Enough Graves The War on Drugs, HIV/AIDS, and Violations of Human Rights This 60-page report provides fresh evidence of extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and other human rights violations by Thai authorities. The report contains first-hand testimony from relatives of people killed during the drug war, as well as drug users who endured beatings, forced confessions and arbitrary arrests at the hands of Royal Thai Police. The government's anti-drug campaign has resulted in as many as 3,000 killings and has driven drug users underground and away from lifesaving HIV prevention services. HRW Index No.: C1608 July 8, 2004 Download PDF, 393 KB, 60 pgs Purchase online Out of Sight, Out of Mind Thai Policy Towards Burmese Refugees and Migrants This 50-page report documents Thailand’s repression of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers from Burma. The Thai government is arresting and intimidating Burmese political activists living in Bangkok and along the Thai-Burmese border, harassing Burmese human rights and humanitarian groups, and deporting Burmese refugees, asylum seekers and others with a genuine fear of persecution in Burma. HRW Index No.: C1602 February 25, 2004 Download PDF, 244 KB, 50 pgs Purchase online Thailand: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers Opposition armed groups in the country are reported to recruit teenagers. There are no indications of under-18s in government armed forces June 12, 2001 Owed Justice Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan Thousands of Thai women are "trafficked" every year into Japan, where many of them endure slavery-like conditions in the Japanese sex industry, Human Rights Watch said in a this new report. According to the 227-page report, "Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan," the women are typically promised lucrative jobs by traffickers in Thailand, but arrive in Japan to find themselves trapped in "debt." To repay these exorbitant sums - usually US,000 to US,000 - they must work for months, or even years, without pay, under highly coercive and abusive conditions. Japanese officials have publicly expressed their concern for the victims of trafficking. But over the course of a six-year investigation in both Japan and Thailand, Human Rights Watch found that the Japanese government has taken no concrete steps to stamp out the practice.The report notes that both the Japanese and Thai governments are participating in the drafting of a United Nations anti-trafficking protocol that will influence governments' response to trafficking in persons worldwide. September 1, 2000 Purchase online Thailand: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: The Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Thailand on 1 May 1999. Thailand created a National Committee for Humanitarian Mine Action in February 2000. Thailand has prepared a Master Plan for Humanitarian Mine Action for 2000-2004, and has commissioned a Level One Survey. In May 1999 Thailand destroyed 10,000 antipersonnel mines; it has developed a plan for destruction of all stockpiled AP mines. August 1, 2000 Burma/Thailand -- Unwanted and Unprotected: Burmese Refugees in Thailand At almost no time since Burmese asylum seekers started arriving on Thai soil in 1984 has the need for protection of this group been greater. Human rights violations inside Burma continue almost a decade after the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) seized power in Burma in September 1988 HRW Index No.: C1006 October 1, 1998 Purchase online Burma/Thailand—No Safety in Burma, No Sanctuary in Thailand This report documents the continued systematic violation of internationally recognized human rights by the Burmese military against ethnic minority villagers in Burma’s Karen, Mon, and Shan States during 1996 and 1997. HRW Index No.: C906 July 1, 1997 Purchase online A Modern Form of Slavery Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand Thousands of Burmese women and girls are trafficked into Thai brothels every year where they work under conditions tantamount to slavery. Subject to debt bondage, illegal confinement, various forms of sexual and physical abuse, and exposure to HIV in the brothels, they then face wrongful arrest as illegal immigrants if they try to escape or if the brothels are raided by Thai police. HRW Index No.: 107X December 1, 1993 Purchase online Bloody May Excessive use of Lethal Force in Bangkok By early May 1992, hundreds of thousands of protestors were marching in Bangkok, demanding the ouster of General Suchinda Kraprayoon who had declared himself prime minister despite repeated promises to the contrary. On May 17, after talks between the government and opposition parties concerning constitutional amendments broke down, the opposition called a new rally. This time, Thai security forces responded with force and deliberately opened fire on the demonstrators. HRW Index No.: 711X October 1, 1992
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