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29 January 2019
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20 December 2018
THE GOVERNMENT’S latest policy addressing the problem of overlapping rights on forested land will be a major turning point for residents, as it will allow them to live in forested areas and sustain themselves legally and also bring a halt to further encroachment, officials said yesterday.
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20 December 2018
THE GOVERNMENT’S latest policy addressing the problem of overlapping rights on forested land will be a major turning point for residents, as it will allow them to live in forested areas and sustain themselves legally and also bring a halt to further encroachment, officials said yesterday.
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16 December 2018
SOMSAK SAE-LAO, an assistant village chief in the small Nan community of Pang Kob, still has no idea whether his villagers could be subject to any benefits for helping protect surrounding forest under a global scheme known as REDD+, if implemented here.
The village has unresolved overlapping…
23 October 2018
Little has been done to reverse the damage of gold mining and villagers have little recourse, say experts
NA NONG BONG, Thailand - They came in the night - about 150 men wearing masks and wielding sticks, knives and guns who swarmed the village of Na Nong Bong in Thailand's northeastern province…
18 July 2018
Date: 18 juillet 2019
Source: Farmalandgrab, Mediaterre
Fin mai 2018 s’est tenu à Bangkok, en Thaïlande, le second forum du projet Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG), mis en œuvre par le Gret en partenariat avec Land Equity International. Ce forum a réuni près de 300 participants venus…
7 May 2018
A 300-year-old community in Bangkok will have its homes demolished as part of the city's modernisation plans
BANGKOK - For more than two decades, a community of more than 300 people living next to an old fort in Bangkok staved off drug dealers keen to extend their turf, and city officials eager…
25 September 2017
Land rights activists gathered in protest outside Government House on Monday, demanding a solution to land conflicts that have arisen as a result of government policies.
The People’s Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) led the demonstration to demand government action, saying they had been…
30 August 2017
After decades of violent forest evictions, the Forest Department has announced it is making a U-turn to embrace the forest dwellers as partners in forest conservation. If you think this is too good to be true, you're absolutely correct.
Chongklai Worapongsathorn, deputy director-general of the…
18 August 2017
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9 August 2017
Villagers of Klong Sai Pattana say palm oil company responsible for targeted killings and harassment of their community.
Chai Buri District, Thailand - As he manoeuvred his pick-up truck along the dirt track leading to his village of Klong Sai Pattana one afternoon, Supot Kalasong, 42, heard a…
2 August 2017
What do you get from fighting for land rights in Thailand? You cannot ask Den Khamlae, 65, a prominent grassroots land rights activist. He mysteriously disappeared in a forest reserve near his rickety home in Chaiyaphum last year.
His wife, Suparb Khamlae, 62, believes he was a victim of enforced…