Tag: Migrant Rights
Observing human rights will help ease Thai migration problems
THAILAND is in a position to be able to improve its human rights practices, notably towards migration, if the authorities change their perception about issues and accept roles of the international community.
By editor on 2015-09-02
BURNING ISSUE
Observing human rights will help ease Thai migration problems
WIRAJ SRIPONG
THE NATION
BANGKOK: — THAILAND is...
Workers Say Asean Integration Won’t Bring Them Home
When Asean more closely integrates economically later this year, more goods and services will flow freely between member states.
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
04 September 2015
WASHINGTON DC— When Asean more closely integrates economically later this year, more goods and services will flow freely between member states.
But that will likely mean a...
How anxiety and despair haunt trafficked children
For children and young people exploited by traffickers in Southeast Asia, escape or rescue ought to put an end to their nightmare. But new research paints a grim picture of the lasting effects on their mental health.
By Elizabeth Blunt
LONDON, 9 September 2015 (IRIN) - For children and young people...
Refugee crisis: Migrants killed as boat capsizes off Malaysian coast
A boat carrying dozens of migrants has sunk in rough seas in the Malacca Strait off Malaysia, killing at least 14 people, according to Malaysian rescuers.
September 4, 2015
Lindsay Murdoch - South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Bangkok: A boat carrying dozens of migrants has sunk in rough seas in the...
Global refugee crisis cries out for action
Now, it’s personal. Until last week the world’s migrant crisis was abstract, a procession of humanity as statistics. The 59.5 million people forcibly displaced by the end of last year, two-thirds of them uprooted from home within their own country.
Editorial Bangkok Post - 6 Sep 2015 at 01:42
Published: 6/09/2015...
As Common Market Nears, Interior Minister Calls for ASEAN Cooperation on Immigration
As border controls ease among ASEAN nations, Interior Minister Sar Kheng warned Tuesday the downside could be a freer flow of criminals and illegal immigrants.
Khmer Times/Ven Rathavong
Tuesday, 08 September 2015
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – As border controls ease among ASEAN nations, Interior Minister Sar Kheng warned Tuesday the downside...
Thai govt works to free fishermen
A Thai delegation is working with the Indonesian government to free Thai fishermen detained for illegally entering Indonesian waters.
7 Sep 2015 at 08:00 WRITER: PRANGTHONG JITCHAROENKUL
PONTIANAK, INDONESIA: A Thai delegation is working with the Indonesian government to free Thai fishermen detained for illegally entering Indonesian waters.
Hundreds of fishermen were...
Cambodia’s Montagnard Problem
The country has long struggled to deal humanely with the refugees from Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
By Brent Crane | September 08, 2015
In May, while much of the international media focused on Cambodia’s preparation for the arrival of refugees coming to Cambodia from Nauru as part of a controversial $35 million...
NHRC Notice to TN Over ‘Harassment’ of Myanmar Refugees
Taking sou motu cognisance of a media report about alleged harassment of refugees from Myanmar near here the National Human Rights Commission today issued notice to Tamil Nadu government directing reports to be filed within four weeks.
By PTI
Published: 07th September 2015 09:49 PM
Last Updated: 07th September 2015 09:49 PM
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The reality of life for a refugee family hiding in Bangkok
The long history of Tamim's family being refugees actually started almost seven decades ago. Of Palestinian origin, his family fled Palestine when the state of Israel was created in 1948, displacing thousands from their lands, an event known to Palestinians as the Nakba, the catastrophe.
Published: 13/09/2015 at 12:58 AM
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