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FEATURE-Thai land rights campaigners' most powerful weapon? Access to information
2016-07-13 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Trust: Suraphon Songruk, an advisor and coordinator for the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand, looks on after a meeting with government officials in Klong Sai Pattana, Surat Thani province in southern Thailand, on July 1, 2016. Along a mud road deep inside oil palm and rubber plantations in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani, handwritten signs tag grim evidence of a struggle for land that began two decades ago, and then turned violent and deadly. One sign points to the area illegally used...
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Brazils seafarer clashes signal an urgent need for stronger workers rights
2016-07-12 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Brazilian seafarers who voted to take industrial action against their employer Transpetro were faced with violent removal from the companys vessels, despite acting fully within their rights. Why was the situation allowed to escalate, and how could t
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Mass killings, forced evictions threaten indigenous, minority groups to point of 'eradication' - rights group
2016-07-11 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mass killings, forced evictions and conflicts over land put indigenous and minority groups at risk of being eradicated from their ancestral lands, a human rights group said on Tuesday. From Ethiopia, China and Iraq, the combination of armed conflicts and land dispossession has led to the persecution of minority groups and the erosion of cultural heritage, according to a report by the Minority Rights Group (MRG). Carl Soderbergh, MRG director of policy and communications, said while discrimination...
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Rio teachers and students demand 'basic rights'
2016-07-05 18:55:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
With one month to go to the Rio Olympics, teachers are on strike and students are demanding "basic rights" as the state faces a financial emergency.
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FEATURE-Four murders and a bloody battle for land rights in Thailand
2016-06-22 23:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Supot Kalasong was driving home one afternoon in April when he heard a bang and assumed he had blown his newly-patched tyre. Then he heard more bangs and realised gunfire was piercing his pickup truck door, hitting him six times on his right leg and twice on his right arm. He was lucky, suffering only minor wounds. Since 2010, four people have been killed in Klong Sai Pattana, a small community in southern Surat Thani province, that has been locked in a bloody battle for the right to use government...
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