Category: Mekong Region
Thailand/Laos: Investigate the Killing of Lao Refugee and Put an End to Transnational Repression of Human Rights Defenders
Originally published at the Amnesty International’s website here. In response to news on 17...
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Anousa “Jack” Luangsouphom, a young Lao blogger. Photo from https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073952982858.
[AEPF] FIND AND PUNISH ANOUSA’S ATTACKERS; END VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY!
The Organising Committee of the Asia-Europe Peoples’ Forum (AEPF) expresses our shock and anger at...
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Chinese company in Andong Bor Community Forest, Cambodia. Photo: Ridan Sun.
Cambodia. Rubber Plantations, Protected Areas, REDD+ and Other Threats: A Dramatic Loss for Forest Dwellers
by Ridan Sun Originally published here for the World Rainforest Movement. Twenty-five years...
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Peasant Agroecology Workshop: Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture in the North and Northeastern Thailand
by Kheetanat Wannaboworn On 7-9 April 2023, Focus on the Global South together with the Regional...
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Land Grabs and Injustice: The Struggles of Families in Tamol Leu Community
by Ridan Sun Mrs. Toun Seng, a 55-year-old resident of the Tamol Leu community, shared her...
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Ms. Keo Vannak from Lor Peang village, Taches commune, Kampong Tralach district, Kampong Chhnang Province.
Voices from the International Women’s Day Celebration in Cambodia
On March 8th, women around the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a day to...
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Empowering Women in Rural Cambodia: Highlights from the International Women’s Day Celebration
Around 150 people from six villages gathered in the Lorpeang and Pich Chengva communities in...
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AGPA 2022: People-Centered: Addressing ASEAN Crises Together
The first ASEAN Grassroots People’s Assembly (AGPA) was organized in 2012, where it successfully...
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Lao national and 2005 Magsaysay Award recipient Sombath Somphone stands beside a poster of fellow awardee V. Shanta during a press conference in Manila, Philippines on Monday 29 August 2005. Photo: EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
Laos: After 10 years, civil society worldwide is still asking: “Where is Sombath?”
Joint Statement Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil...
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TEN YEARS AFTER, SOMBATH SOMPHONE’S LEGACY LIVES ON
Focus on the Global South co-organized with the Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum, Embassy of Netherlands...
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Upcoming Event: Honoring the Legacy of Sombath Somphone [2 December 2022]
Focus on the Global South, Asia Europe People’s Forum, Embassy of the Netherlands in...
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Riot Police during the APEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, 18 November 2022. Photo by สำนักข่าวราษฎร - Ratsadon News.
STATEMENT: Thailand must respect the Rights of Peaceful Assembly during APEC 2022
Bangkok, 18 November 2022 Civil Society Organisations condemn the Thai Government’s violent...
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