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Launch of Karen rights report quashed by Thai authorities
The launch of a Karen rights organisation's report has been blocked in Chiang Mai, Thailand, after authorities pressured a local university to cancel the event.
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 Bangkok court against a Thai sugar firm.
Thai court orders migrant rights activist Andy Hall to pay over $300,000
A court in Thailand on Monday ordered a migrant workers advocate to pay 10 million baht ($321,000) in damages to a Thai fruit company in the latest round of a long-running legal battle between the two parties.
UN Human Rights Council condemns Burma over Rakhine situation
The UN Human Rights Council voted Tuesday to condemn the alleged rights violations perpetrated by Burmese security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, in a vote of 33 in favour and three against. Nine nations abstained.
UN starting to gather testimony on Burma violations: investigator
UN investigators have started collecting testimony from fleeing Rohingya Muslims pointing to human rights violations by Burma’s military and security forces, the head of the fact-finding mission said on Tuesday.
UN rights chief brands Arakan violence a ‘textbook’ example of ethnic cleansing
The United Nations’ top human rights official on Monday slammed Burma for conducting a “cruel military operation” against Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, branding it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
