By: Editor Date: March 1st 2016 Source: Thai Visa News Government to distribute state land for the landless BANGKOK: — The government plans to allocate about 195,000 rai of state land in 47 provinces for landless poor so they will have a land plot to build a living quarter and to make a living…

By: Online reporter Date: March 8th 2016 Source: Bangkok Post About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry. The total was…

By: Khine Kyaw Date: March 10th 2016 Source: The Nation / Myanmar Eleven CIVIL SOCIETY organisations (CSOs) and local residents living near the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have called for action from the Japanese, Myanmar and Thai governments to tackle human rights violations before…

By: Boonnum Kerdkaew Date: March 10th 2016 Source: Bangkok Post UTTARADIT - Residents of two communities say land reform authorities plan to distribute land at Bueng Kalo marsh to wealthy people and relatives of politicians. Paithoon Prommoi, kaman of tambon Khung Tapao in Muang district, said on…

By: Boonnum Kerdkaew Date: March 10th 2016 Source: Bangkok Post UTTARADIT - Residents of two communities say land reform authorities plan to distribute land at Bueng Kalo marsh to wealthy people and relatives of politicians. Paithoon Prommoi, kaman of tambon Khung Tapao in Muang district, said…

By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Prapasri Ostanon Date: March 29th 2016 Source: The Nation ACTIVISTS have warned that the proposed Mineral Bill would severely violate human rights by allowing mining firms to drive people off their lands and give the state absolute power to manage mineral resources…

Date: 3 avril 2016 Source: Libération Par AFP A 60 ans, Laddawan Kamsong a suivi sa première formation agricole, elle qui plante du riz depuis plus de 40 ans. Confrontée à la sécheresse, la junte thaïlandaise a mis en place un programme axé sur la diversification dans les champs. «Je vais…

By: Alisa Tang Date: May 10th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers from northeast Thailand traveled to Bangkok on Tuesday to demand that police and human rights groups investigate the disappearance of a prominent land rights activist who went…

By: Pratch Rujivanarom Date: May 7th 2016 Source: The Nation A WARRANT was issued this week for the arrest of a missing activist for allegedly hunting in a national park, but his wife insists that her husband did not engage in such activity. It is almost one month since Den Kamlae, a land-…

Date: May 12th 2016 Source: Bangkok Post Phuket land officials yesterday decided to revoke land rights documents for a section of land on Naka Noi Island in the resort province.  Watcharin Jettanawanit, a provincial land official, yesterday said an investigation panel resolved to rescind the…

Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott Date: June 5th, 2016 Source: Bangkok Post Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a…

By: Alisa Tang Date: 24 June 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation    Since 2010, four people have been killed in a community locked in a battle for the right to use government land (Updates date of officials' visit in graf 33 and upcoming court verdict in graf 34, year of coup in graf…