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Since international funding was sharply reduced a year ago, Mae La, the largest refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, has been struggling to hold together.
Cambodia grants Economic Land Concessions on state property. But much of that land is Indigenous territory – unrecognised because communities can’t navigate the title process. An explainer on how the system enables displacement.
For generations, a divorced Hmong woman lost not just her marriage but her place in her clan. A women’s network has been reviving an ancient ritual to give it back.
Thailand’s national parks have a complication the maps didn’t show: people. Thousands of families have settled on forest land, only to find themselves declared encroachers when officials later drew park boundaries around their homes. After decades of evictions, one village has found a solution.
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians returned home during a border conflict with Thailand. Now crushing microfinance debt and scarce jobs are forcing them back.
Thailand is forming a fourth committee to resolve a longstanding Karen land dispute – this time with an ethnic rights law previous panels lacked.
Thailand’s anti-money laundering office has voted to seize about 418 million USD in assets from alleged scam networks linked to Cambodia. But hundreds of fraud victims who lost their savings may face a years-long wait to see if they’ll ever get their money back.
Thailand’s facial recognition banking rules were meant to stop fraud. Instead, criminal syndicates now traffic people to Cambodia, hold them captive, and force them to scan their faces to authorise fraudulent transactions – then victims return home to face prosecution.
Alemi Saechin spent ten years proving she was Thai before she could vote. Now she and other first-time ethnic minority voters across Thailand are discovering that gaining citizenship doesn’t mean gaining full democratic inclusion.
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