- Love and resistance
He’s the calm strategist. She’s the one who takes the front line. For twenty years, Ornuch and Pramote Phonpinyo have split the work of running one of the country’s most enduring land rights networks.
- by Veerapong Soontornchattrawat
- 19 min read
- Tonle Sap
The Tonle Sap lake supplies most of Cambodia’s protein and sustains millions of livelihoods. But dams and climate change are weakening its flood pulse, and fishers who once caught 50 kilograms a day are now returning with almost nothing.
- by Phoung Vantha
- 9 min read
- Hazardous chemicals
Six years after a landmark pesticide ban, Thailand’s farming system is still built around chemical dependency. Campaigners say the country solved a scandal, not the system behind it.
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- 10 min read
- Land Rights
- Land rights
- by Kong Sreyrath
- Natural Resources
- Carbon credits
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- Environmental Justice
- Southern Economic Corridor
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- Environmental Justice
- Mother Nature
- by Phoung Vantha
- Environmental Justice
- Mines in Myanmar
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
Archives
- NEWS
- Coal Mining
A Karen community in Chiang Mai’s Omkoi district spent seven years challenging a coal mine approved without their knowledge, and won a court order freezing it. The final ruling is still pending.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
- FEATURE
- Rare Earth
The rivers that sustained life in Thailand’s northern borderlands for generations are now carrying poison – the byproduct of a mining boom feeding the world’s appetite for tech products.
- by Pratch Rujivanarom
- 11 min read
- NEWS
- Chatree gold mine
A Bangkok court has ordered Thailand’s largest gold mine to compensate nearly 400 villagers for cyanide contamination, but the mine remains open and the legal battle is far from over.
- by Nicha Wachpanich
- 3 min read
- Profile
- Rights defender
Nget Khun, 86, has protested outside Cambodia’s courts for nearly two decades, ever since her lakeside home was taken. Her daughter Eng Sokha just finished a year in prison for breaking a window during a protest. Neither plans to stop their activism.
- by Meng Kroypunlok
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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.
- by Eung Sea
- 7 min read
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.
- by Veerapong Soontornchattrawat
- 21 min read
Thailand is forming a fourth committee to resolve a longstanding Karen land dispute – this time with an ethnic rights law previous panels lacked.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 4 min read
The Urak Lawoi of Thailand’s Koh Lipe once produced virtually no waste. Now their community manages a daily logistics operation – sorting, loading, and barging ten tonnes of mostly tourist rubbish to a mainland landfill.
- by HaRDstories and Indigenous Media Network
- 2 min read
Women and children at flood shelters in the Muslim-majority Deep South face particular hardships, no breakfast, missing sanitary supplies, and safety concerns in mixed sleeping areas.
- by HaRDstories and Wartani
- 4 min read
Thailand’s government says a dam project in Yala is essential for flood prevention. But a group of locals who depend on the Pattani River argue the 60-year-old plan will destroy their ecosystem – and delivered that message directly to the deputy prime minister.
- by Asmadi Bueheng
- 3 min read
