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A Vietnamese dissident’s fate might hang on Thailand’s anti-torture law

A landmark anti-torture law faces its first test in Thailand as a court is to decide on the extradition of a Vietnamese activist, who believes he faces abuse in his home country.
  • 3 min read
The Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF)
  • FEATURE

When cybercrime trafficking victims become suspects

Lured by fake jobs ads, they thought they were starting new lives. Instead, they found themselves enslaved by scammers and betrayed by a system meant to help them.
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  • FEATURE

As Phnom Penh’s lakes are filled in, communities are pushed out

When the government came to evict them from Phnom Penh's Boeng Tamok Lake, a tight-knit community of fishers and farmers banded together to resist.
  • 11 min read
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Thai court orders factory to pay 1.77 billion baht for pollution

In Thailand’s industrial heartland, a village fights back against a polluting processing plant – and wins. The landmark case offers hope for communities facing the dark side of economic growth.
  • 4 min read
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Villagers win 29-year fight to save mountain from mining

After a decades-long battle, the Supreme Administrative Court has revoked the mining permit for Khao Khuha, returning the mountain in Songkhla province to the local community.
  • 3 min read
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Silenced at home, exiled journalists defend the truth from Thailand

Targeted by arrest warrants, they fled to Thailand. Now, Myanmar's exiled journalists risk everything to expose the junta's brutality.
  • 15 min read
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Marriage equality passes, but where are the LGBTQ senators?

The absence of LGBTQ senators in the newly elected body contrasts sharply with recent legislative victories, including the passage of a marriage equality bill.
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Thai plan to relax fishing law stokes fear of return to illegal catches, worker abuse

Thai lawmakers are discussing fisheries reforms that observers say risk undoing eight years of hard-won progress on human rights and ocean protection.
  • 9 min read
Luke Duggleby
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Rights activist shot dead in the Deep South

One day before the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a human rights defender who advocated for justice for alleged torture victims was killed outside his home in southern Thailand.
  • 3 min read
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