• Human Rights in Thailand
    The government of Yingluck Shinawatra has not yet fulfilled her promise to give priority to human rights. No one has been held responsible for the 98 dead and more than 2,000 injured during the 2010 “Red Shirt” demonstrations. Thai authorities enforce censorship and prosecute activists under computer and lese majeste (insulting the monarchy) laws. In the southern border provinces, separatist insurgents attack civilians including government teachers, and state security forces torture and “disappear” people with impunity. Thai authorities ignore rights abuses against migrant workers. Refugees and asylum seekers are returned to countries, like Burma, where they will likely face persecution.
  • Ethnic Malay Muslim girls help remove burnt book at Ban Thasu School after it was set alight by separatist insurgents in Pattani province on December 3, 2012.
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    Thailand: Rebels Escalate Killings of Teachers

    Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces should immediately end all attacks on teachers and schools, Human Rights Watch said today.

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  • Thailand: Rebels Escalate Killings of Teachers
    Dec 17, 2012

    Separatist insurgents in Thailand’s southern border provinces should immediately end all attacks on teachers and schools, Human Rights Watch said today.

  • Civil Society Denounces Adoption of Flawed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration
    Nov 19, 2012
    Disregarding the deep concerns expressed by senior United Nations officials, human rights experts and hundreds of civil society and grassroots organisations at the national, regional and international levels, ASEAN leaders nonetheless adopted yesterday an “ASEAN Human Rights Declaration” that undermines, rather than affirms, international human rights law and standards.
  • Obama's message to Yingluck
    Nov 18, 2012
    While many are talking about what US President Barack Obama will say about human rights in his trips to Myanmar and Cambodia, little is being said about the serious human rights problems in Thailand.
  • Thailand: Obama Should Press Yingluck on Rights
    Nov 15, 2012
    US President Barack Obama should publicly raise concerns about Thailand’s human rights record during meetings with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in Bangkok on November 18, 2012.
  • Malala is face of global attacks on schools
    Oct 25, 2012
    The gruesome gunning-down of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai spotlighted the fate of children in Pakistan, one of the world's most dangerous places to go to school. But in war zones around the world, from Afghanistan to Yemen, students, teachers and schools are regularly coming under attack. These are the world's unrecognized Malalas.
  • Protecting Thailand's Malalas
    Oct 24, 2012
    The recent shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai shocked the world and put a spotlight on the fate of children in one of the world's most dangerous places to go to school. But Thailand's three southern border provinces also make it onto that list of places where students and teachers each day fear turning up for school.
  • Thailand: Separatists Target Teachers in Renewed Violence
    Oct 9, 2012

    Armed separatist groups in Thailand’s southern border provinces have renewed attacks on teachers and schools in a campaign of terror that has heightened fear among the population.

  • Thailand: Act to Bring Justice for 2010 Violence
    Sep 21, 2012

    The Thai government should act on the findings of an independent inquiry and prosecute all those responsible for rights abuses during the 2010 political violence.

  • Walmart's Human Trafficking Problem
    Sep 17, 2012

    Americans love shrimp, there’s no doubt about it. But the American appetite for shrimp now poses challenges for U.S. companies that import it.

  • Thailand: Refugee Policies Ad Hoc and Inadequate
    Sep 13, 2012

    Thailand’s policies governing refugees on its soil are making them vulnerable to arbitrary and abusive treatment despite the country’s decades of experience as host for millions of refugees.

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