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• Women (Thailand)

  Thailand: Women’s rights group campaigns for abortion rights at Democracy Monument protest

  16 August 2020, by PRACHATAI

  The Women for Freedom and Democracy group has set up a station at today’s protest at the Democracy Monument for people to sign their petition calling for the decriminalization of abortion.
  The signs at the Women for Freedom and Democracy group’s station. The red and yellow sign in front says (...)

• Women (Thailand)

  ’Time to start talking about consent’: Thailand’s nascent #MeToo moment

  17 January 2019, by ELLIS-PETERSEN Hannah

  A web project that let people share stories of sexual assault is growing into an influential force for change
  In a small bookshop in Suan Phlu, a lively district of Bangkok, an unusual conversation is taking place. Men and women crammed into the nooks and crannies between the books listen (...)

• Women (Thailand)

  Thailand: ‘Thaiconsent’ Breaks The Silence With Untold Stories

  3 December 2018, by SAKSORNCHAI Jintamas

  When a woman recently accused a famous gynecologist of raping her during an exam, many more came forward to say they’d entrusted his sterling reputation only to be assaulted at his clinic.
  Almost as quickly, others emerged to challenge the women’s accusations. With police saying they couldn’t (...)

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  History of Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Thailand

  8 January 2018, by BURANAJAROENKIJ Duanghathai

  Gender practices in Thai society have changed since the 1932 Revolution (from absolute monarchy to a democratic regime), resulting in debates on gender justice. The women’s organizations when interacting with international change in gender practice was instrumentalized to accelerate (...)

• Women (Thailand)

  Women inmates: Lives without dignity in Thailand’s female prisons

  14 December 2016, by SUPAWATANAKUL Kritsada

  Prisons in Thailand still fail to recognise the basic rights of female prisoners, depriving women of essential health services and goods from sanitary pads to bras. Overburdened prisons due to Thailand’s harsh drug laws aggravate the current situation. This report reveals the devastating (...)

• Women (Thailand)

  Women step forward for Freedom of Speech in Thailand

  30 April 2012, by YIMPRASERT Junya Lek

  We choose April 30 to publish this poster for two reasons.
  Arrested in March 2009 and bailed many times since, now, on April 30, Chiranuch Premchaiyaporn, the Prachatai.com Webmaster, a receiver of the 2012 Women of Courage Award , will face the verdict of a Public Prosecutor working for the (...)

• Women (Thailand)

  On Thailand Women Forum

  5 March 2007, by Isis, YIMPRASERT Junya Lek

  Thai Labour Campaign’s Junya Lek Yimprasert shares her insights on the recently concluded Thailand Women Forum held last March 3-4, 2007 in Bangkok. She also gave a brief overview of the history as well as the current state of the women’s movement in Thailand. Several days after the Thailand (...)