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    Scars of Resilience: Transgender Protester Advocates for LGBTI+ People Displaced by the Myanmar Coup
    November 11, 2022in Feature, Features, Human Rights0by CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
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    Scars of Resilience: Transgender Protester Advocates for LGBTI+ People Displaced by the Myanmar Coup

    “LGBT rights are human rights. I want to encourage fellow LGBT people not to be discouraged” By Sippachai Kunnuwong for Fortify Rights. Illustration by Tams Lu. Since the February 1,…

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    Outgoing UN human rights chief keeps Burma on notice
    June 19, 2018in Human Rights, International Relations, Lead Story, News7216by ANDREW D. KASPAR
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    Outgoing UN human rights chief keeps Burma on notice

    The outgoing UN human rights chief kept Burma under the microscope in parting remarks to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, noting the government’s failure to cooperate with multiple…

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    Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad: activists
    April 10, 2018in Human Rights, Lead Story, News206by THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
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    Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad: activists

    Thailand’s businesses and its government must do more to protect the rights of vulnerable people abroad, analysts and activists said, after a landmark case filed by Cambodian farmers in a…

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    Fishermen long for justice as Thailand comes under UN scrutiny
    March 29, 2018in Human Rights, Lead Story, Migrants Issues, News543by THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
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    Fishermen long for justice as Thailand comes under UN scrutiny

    Thailand’s fishing industry has long been dogged by allegations of abuses. The country is under further international scrutiny this week as a team of UN experts undertake their first visit…

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    UN envoy approaches Burma from its flanks after being barred from country
    January 17, 2018in Human Rights, Lead Story, News461by ANDREW D. KASPAR
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    UN envoy approaches Burma from its flanks after being barred from country

    The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma arrives in Bangladesh on Thursday, vowing to fulfill her mandate despite being blacklisted by the Burmese government from continuing her work…

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    UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses in Burma
    December 28, 2017in Human Rights, International Relations, Lead Story, News485by REUTERS
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    UN rights investigator calls for pressure on China, Russia over abuses in Burma

    The United Nations’ independent investigator into human rights in Burma has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in…

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