Full Coverage: Thailand

03.09.2009 The Asian Legal Resource Centre has hit back at the Thai government's dismissal of its accusation that the police are the top violator of human rights in the country.

29.04.2009 An international media group has asked Thailand's King for a royal pardon for a journalist jailed for 10 years under the country's lese majeste law, and 32 organisations are pressing for the legislation to be amended.

16.02.2009 The spate of lese-majesty cases in Thailand is a manifestation of a turn away from the democratic and social developments of the 1990s and back towards the outdated authoritarianism of earlier decades, says an Asian rights group.

09.02.2009 A cyber-demonstration is calling for the release of Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, who is serving a three-year sentence on a lese majeste charge for referring briefly to the monarchy in a novel set in Thailand.
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03.02.2009 Hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya people are missing at sea and many more are at risk of drowning after Thai authorities forcibly expelled large groups of Rohingyas seeking refuge.
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28.01.2009 Controls on news and information are being tightened in Thailand, said an international media freedom group in the wake of a ban on a foreign magazine that criticised the three-year jail sentence imposed on an Australian writer on a lese majeste charge.

11.12.2008 Asian elephants are being smuggled from Myanmar into neighbouring Thailand for elephant trekking' tourism, says a new report.

24.04.2008 Asian governments' attempts to manage skyrocketing food prices by restricting rice exports is actually aggravating food shortages in the region, says Peter Timmer in this interview.

22.04.2008 One of the three writers from Thailand whom the giant retailer Tesco is trying to suppress with serial libel writs has arrived in London at the invitation of the free speech body Index on Censorship.

12.03.2008 Drowning is the biggest killer of children who die from injuries in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to new surveys.

28.02.2008 Alarming local and international rights activists, several officials in the Thai government are speaking freely about the 'necessity' of using extra-judicial killings as part of a national clampdown on narcotics.

10.01.2008 Several Thai environmental groups are hoping to reverse last year's decision to lift the ban on genetically modified foods, citing that the lift may put Thailand's agricultural industry in danger.

04.12.2007 International governments must increase diplomatic pressure on the Burmese government and augment humanitarian assistance to the millions of Burmese forced to flee their homes after years of internal conflict and repression, writes an international organization working with refugees.

30.10.2007 The Thai government's policy of compulsory rehabilitation or incarceration for drug users has increased stigma and HIV risk, but local groups representing Thai drug users and HIV-infected citizens are pushing for more constructive programs.

03.10.2007 "Keeping quiet while monks and other peaceful protesters are murdered and jailed is not evidence of constructive engagement," said an international human rights monitor Tuesday, urging Chinese, Indian, Thai, and other companies to take a stand against the military crackdown in Burma.
From: Human Rights Watch

14.09.2007 Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Thailand are currently gathering outside the UN headquarters in New York to demand greater attention be paid to global hunger. Through a regularly updated blog, the campaigners are sharing behind-the-scenes action, video feeds, concert footage, and more.

29.08.2007 A low-level insurgency is spiraling into a brutal armed conflict in the predominantly ethnic Malay Muslim provinces of southern Thailand, a global rights group said Tuesday, noting that for the first time in the region's history, Buddhist monks are being targeted for death.
From: Human Rights Watch

20.08.2007 Thailand's ruling military junta pushed through a new constitution in a referendum this weekend, but nearly two thirds of Thai voters either abstained or voted 'no' -- including over 60 percent of the impoverished northeast of the country.

13.08.2007 According to the 2007 report of the International Telecommunications' Union (ITU) related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which was released recently, Tunisia achieved a considerable progress in the field of information technologies.

07.08.2007 A group of community radio and people's media organisations in Thailand has rejected the military-backed draft constitution as undemocratic and has called for its rejection.