Bang Kloi Indigenous Community Asks to Return to Ancestral Land
26 August 2023 Three years after a group of villagers from the Bang Kloi indigenous Karen community were prosecuted for ...
26 August 2023 Three years after a group of villagers from the Bang Kloi indigenous Karen community were prosecuted for ...
26 August 2023 The Asian Forum for Development and Human Rights (FORUM-ASIA) and its six member organisations express deep concern ...
25 August 2023 MANILA – Forty-two human rights groups in the Philippines and abroad stood in solidarity with 10 Filipino ...
25 August 2023 In this joint open letter, Amnesty International along with the undersigned organisations bring to the attention of ...
24 August 2023 Responding to the arrest of Anisha Siddika, a 58-year-old woman in Bangladesh who was apparently detained over her son’s ...
24 August 2023 The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) is calling on international actors to act with integrity by ...
23 August 2023 Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are advocating an additional tax of 500 Riels per pack of cigarettes to minimise ...
23 August 2023 A new United Nations report on extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan under the Taliban makes for very grim reading. The ...
23 August 2023 Fearing arrest, well known land rights activist Prak Sophea fled to Thailand last week and applied for ...
The women of Vietnam’s Yao ethnic minority continue to discover new uses for medicinal plants, even as they worry that...
Read moreFarmers tending Bangladesh’s famous floating gardens could use more help from the government.
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Read moreLured by the promise of plum jobs in countries widely known for their social welfare systems, Thai berry pickers find...
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