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- After the Cataclysm
Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
- Arrested in Thailand for carrying safety vest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) in calling for the immediate release of a dual Hong Kong-Canadian journalist arrested at Bangkok airport on Sunday, August 23.
- Attacks in Thailand's deep south: Who, why and what's next?
Burst of violence deepens concerns the situation in the conflict-hit region could deteriorate in the coming months.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Fatal attacks by Malay separatists have brought what some feel are overly punitive retaliation from Thailand's military. This could lead to a deterioration in diplomacy and more violence.
- Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
- Both pro- and anti-government demonstrators threaten media
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders is very worried by the harassment of TV stations by both pro- and anti-government demonstrators in Thailand.
- British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall
- Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
- Connexions Library: East and Southeast Asia Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on east and southeast Asia.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Encyclopeida of Asian History
Resource Type: Book
- Female Well-Being
Toward a global theory of social change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Long Jail Term for Website Editor Critical of Military Coup
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns a Bangkok military court's political use of Thailand's lese-majeste legislation to sentence a journalist critical of the military, Thai E-News editor Somsak Pakdeedech, to nine years in prison on 24 November.
- Media concerns as "dictator law" replaces martial law in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Journalists' organizations express strong concern over the issuing of a new order by the military regime to replace martial law.
- Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
- Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
- Ranat ek
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The ranat ek is a Thai musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of 21 wooden bars suspended by cords over a boat-shaped trough resonator and struck by two mallets. It is used as a leading instrument in the piphat ensemble.
- Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
- SEAJU calls for recognition of Labour laws and 'right to form' in Thailand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The South East Asia Journalist Unions (SEAJU) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have called for urgent attention to the current labor situation facing journalists in Thailand.
- Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
- South East Asian Media Unite to Combat Impunity, Censorship and Wage Insecurity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The South East Asian Journalists Unions (SEAJU) have taken a united stand to combat the rampant state of impunity for journalist attacks in the region and to bring their unions together to advocate on the common issues central to the craft.
- Steady erosion of media rights as Thai military tightens its grip
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The IFJ is deeply concerned about reports of increasing control by the Thailand Military Junta over news and information on radio, television, printed and online media.
- Thai journalists call to revoke oppressive media laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists joins the Thai Journalists Association and National Union of Journalists, Thailand in calling on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to immediately revoke the current oppressive media laws
- Thai military leader threatens to execute journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists, Thailand (NUJT) deplores the comments made by Thai military junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha against journalists.
- Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
- Thailand: Police close a dozen community radio stations, carry out arrests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of a dozen community radio stations linked to the opposition “Red Shirts” in a major police operation yesterday in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces.
- The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
- World Minorities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
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