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Deaf people in crisis during three-month sign language center blackout
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For the past three months, the Thailand Telecommunication Relay Service, which provides online sign language interpretation services for people with hearing impairments, has been shut down due to delay in funding approval.
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Indigenous communities fear impacts of Cambodian wind projects
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Cambodia hopes wind farms can help solve its growing power needs, but opaque plans have left the Bunong people worried for their sacred land.
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Finnish berry company CEO jailed for human trafficking over exploitation of Thai berry pickers
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The District Court of Lapland has sentenced the CEO of a Finnish berry company to prison over 62 human trafficking cases involving Thai berry pickers.
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Beyond the binary: Thailand’s intersex push for recognition bill
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Thailand’s success in legalising same-sex marriage has set the stage for the next frontier in LGBTQI+ rights: the Gender Recognition Bill. The proposed legislation faces political resistance as lawmakers grapple with recognising identities beyond male and female.
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As Thailand’s monarchy reform movement wanes, ultra-royalists turn on migrants
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The number of prejudiced posts against Cambodian and Myanmar people is growing on Thai social media, as ultra-nationalists turn away from pro-democracy movements and toward migrant laborers.
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Burning: Viet Nam’s outdoor workers struggle in extreme heat
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Lacking social support, outdoor laborers are paying the price of rising heat with their health and their pocket
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Thailand passes its first law to protect ethnic groups
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Thailand passed its first law to protect indigenous communities, making it the fourth country in Southeast Asia.
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Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River
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The Thai-backed Hatgyi Dam and the Yuam River Diversion Project risk submerging villages, displacing Indigenous Karen communities, and diverting massive amounts of water for agriculture in central Thailand.
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As Cambodia silences dissent, opposition wives rework their resistance
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They’ve lost homes, jobs and safety, but Cambodia’s opposition wives refuse to lose hope. As surveillance tightens and political space shrinks, these women represent the country’s dwindling but defiant resistance.
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Their country denies they exist, they refuse to be forgotten
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The Myanmar military burned villages but couldn’t destroy memories. Now Rohingya refugees are turning salvaged family photographs and faded certificates into evidence of their historical presence in a country that insists they never belonged.
