Women bear highest cost of injustice
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Pianporn Deetes Thailand and Myanmar Campaigns Director of International Rivers
published : 8 Mar 2021 at 04:30
6 Ah Chai holds a sign demanding a free-flowing Salween River and opposing military plans for a dam as she joins the anti-coup protest in Yangon. Southeast Asia Program of International Rivers
Soithip, an ethnic Karen-Thai woman from Bang Kloi in the Kaeng Krachan Forest, was among 22 villagers who were rounded up last Friday by state authorities and put behind bars at the Phetchaburi Provincial Prison. Returning to their ancestral land in the forest is a crime in the eye of the state.