Our work in Thailand
Since 2014, Thailand has been an NHRF priority country. Our work in Thailand is primarily on two of our three thematic areas; dismantling discrimination, inequality and marginalization and protection of human rights defenders and the right to defend rights.
We support four grantee partners across Thailand, a majority of them work on supporting communities in furthering land and environmental rights and protection. Within this thematic area, partners work with different strategies, including legal interventions, documentation, awareness - raising, as well as improving protection of human rights defenders including, indigenous and women human rights defenders. Another area that one of our grantee partners works on is protection of human rights defenders and the right to defend rights through capacity strengthening and solidarity building.
Our impact
At the NHRF, we collect big and small success stories from our grantee partners to show the impact they are able to make at various levels. Two of the stories from our grantee partners in Thailand are described below.
Our grantee partner in Thailand, the Center for Protection and Revival of Local Community Rights (CPCR), successfully obtained a temporary protection order preventing the granting of a mining license. This is the result of efforts led by young indigenous women, and the community, supported by CPCR, who have been working to document and raise awareness about the impact of mining projects on the local land and environment along with legal action
News
Raising voices against human rights violations related to the mining industry
Communities in Asia, Latin America, and other parts of the world, are under constant pressure from the mining industry, which often undermines indigenous communities and threatens their livelihood. The NHRF has grantee partners in different continents working with communities affected by this and shares their perspectives and experiences in this article.
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Defending the environment, the key to saving the planet
On World Environment Day, we share how social organisations from different parts of the world have been working to defend environmental rights, despite the obstacles they face.
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Support to work against discrimination
Many of the NHRF’s grantees work with groups facing multiple forms of discrimination based on their gender, caste, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and other diverse identities. Supporting marginalised groups to take the lead in their fight against discrimination is a core component of the NHRF’s work.
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