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Request state officers to respect human rights and rule of law if detaining people

According to a news report on December 11, 2008, Maj. Gen. Verachai Nakvanich, commander of the Narathiwat Task Force Unit, chaired an event to receive ‘misled people’ who had decided to attend the People Cooperating to Do Good for the Realm project (Pracharuamjai Thamkuamdeepueapaendin project). According to the news, those (claimed to be) misled people [...]

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Thailand’s Unarmed Heroes: An Overview of the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

The purpose of this report is to provide an overall assessment of the obstacles and challenges faced by human rights defenders in Thailand today while examining Thailand’s national and international obligations to protect human rights defenders. Poor security and threats to human rights defenders have been identified as the most severe problems in various papers [...]

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