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Published in: Home“No one is too young to make a difference”: stories from the global climate strikeYoung people recount how they protested, in the face of poverty, conflict and toxic air pollution, for action on...
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Published in: HomeThailand’s first elections since military coup loosen junta’s grip on powerDespite a rigged constitution, the results have left the junta vulnerable to parliamentary gridlock.
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Published in: HomeYoung defenders: voiceless dissenters or force for good?Human Rights Day call. Young human rights defenders will only be safe when there first exists, worldwide, public...
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Published in: HomeThai youthful thinking on education and democracyA message from Thai youth to the World Forum for Democracy 2016 on ‘Democracy and equality – does education...
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Published in: HomeAnti-populist coups: Thaksin, dictatorship and Thailand’s new constitutionThe “Red Shirts” movement has caused large-scale political instability, but it has brought to the fore critical...
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Published in: HomeSoutheast Asia: a new refugee crisis looming?Southeast Asia is seeing persecuted minorities fleeing their homeland. As in Europe, lack of political consensus has...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: the clock is ticking in Asia tooWhile the headlines focus on migration to Europe, a crisis is unfolding in South East Asia as the horrors of human...
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Published in: HomeBombs in Bangkok: how will Thailand’s military junta react?Regardless of the perpetrator's motivation, it is certain that Thailand’s military rulers will use the Bangkok...
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Published in: HomeBangkok DCThe Thai elite’s re-wiring of the democratic system will make it much harder for any elected government to enact...
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Published in: HomeKhon Kean in my mind: development is peopleDevelopment takes time. A lot of time. Meanwhile, people need to be free and we need to be kind.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery and trafficking: beyond the hollow callReports on modern slavery miss the target when they blame individual actions and ‘a few bad apples’. This is a...
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Published in: HomeAssessing civil resistance: social movements' instrumentalisation of nonviolent tactics in Thailand and beyondNonviolent civil resistance is not immune to perpetuating existing structural and cultural violence unless...
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Published in: HomeMonths after the coup, why the Thai junta's struggle to manage illegal migrants from Myanmar remains a losing battleLawlessness in the Thailand-Myanmar border area, along with inconsistent immigration policy in Thailand, has led to...
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Published in: openSecurityArrested democracy: why Thailand needs a new social contractThe Thai military may think its May takeover has run smoothly but authoritarian dictates and an elite power monopoly...
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Published in: HomeSlavery and trafficking: beyond the hollow callIt is only by being utopian that we'll be able to overcome the low-cost, high-volume retail business model that...
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Published in: openSecurityArbitrary detention, once again, in ThailandIf madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth...
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Published in: HomeThe Rohingya refugee making factoryIf the production of refugees was an industry, Myanmar would be among the world’s market leaders. And of all its...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy in the "Asian century"A shift of global power to the east exposes the west's domestic as well as international weaknesses, say Ernesto...
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Published in: HomeAt a knife’s edge: elections and democracy in ThailandThe Kingdom of Thailand, and the wider region in which it stands, resembles a global political laboratory. It is a...
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Published in: HomeEight years of Thai madness: make sense, not warRightly or wrongly, finally the people of my generation are now all for public participation, talking about...
