It has been one month since the government has enforced the Emergency Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations B.E. 2548 (2005) or “Emergency Decree” nationwide from 26 March 2020 to 30 April 2020. Before the decree expires, the government decided to extend its enforcement for another month and prepared to relax some restrictions imposed earlier to […]
Sripai Nonsi, the representative of Rangsit and Area Labor Union group, talks about the impact of Covid-19 outbreak which affects workers. The workers not only are laid off or receive less pay, but they also experience severe consequences that people, especially the government, can’t imagine. Sripai established Rangsit and Area Labor Union group (RALU) in […]
On 24 April 2020, the ICJ, Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR) and the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) made a joint supplementary submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on Thailand’s implementation of its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). In their submission, the ICJ, TLHR and CrCF […]
In response to the spread of the Covid-19, Thailand’s government has imposed several measures to contain the epidemic and to reduce the number of infected persons. Many of such measures cause grave impacts on the day-to-day life of the people as well. Among the measures imposed under the Emergency Decree, the government issued a regulation […]
On 15 April 2020 – FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights along with 10 humanitarian organizations made an open letter to the Police Colonel Nararat Sesawanant, Director-General of the Department of Corrections, urging for the release of vulnerable detainees as well as those with less serious offenses, in order to mitigate the state of congestion inside […]
Amid the government imposes a state of emergency in response to the outbreak of COVID-19, a public concern of the abuse of emergency measures to suppress freedom of expression and information. The assemblies of pro-democracy protests were slowed down due to the outbreak of COVID, while public space tends to shrink for voicing their opinions […]
