Date 31 July 2021 We Support “World Heritage, Blood Heritage” Campaign! In solidarity with the Karen Indigenous Peoples of Thailand against the Declaration of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC) as a World Heritage Site We object in the strongest terms to the declaration of Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC), the ancestral lands of the Karen …
Yesterday, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee passed a decision inscribing the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC) in Thailand on the World Heritage List, ignoring repeated pleas of Indigenous peoples, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand and the UN human rights system to defer listing. IWGIA strongly objects both to the decision to inscribe the …
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The Network of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand (NIPT) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have followed-up on the enforced disappearance of Mr. Polajee Rakchongcharoen (or Billy), an indigenous-Karen human rights defender in Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC), Petchaburi Province, Thailand since 2014. The NIPT and AIPP would like to express their deepest condolences to family …
The Network of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand (NIPT) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) have followed-up on the enforced disappearance of Mr. Polajee Rakchongcharoen (or Billy), an indigenous-Karen human rights defender in Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (KKFC), Petchaburi Province, Thailand since 2014. The NIPT and AIPP would like to express their deepest condolences to family …
At 13.00 today, the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) held a press conference to reveal that DNA tests have confirmed that bones found in Kaeng Krachan Dam are those of the missing Karen environmental activist and community rights defender Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, who disappeared in 2014. A search of the area under the Kaeng Krachan …
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Joint Statement to the 12 Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on“Conservation and Rights of Indigenous Peoples” Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Asia Indigenous Peoples Caucus Delivered by: Nalori Dhammei Chakma We, indigenous peoples in Asia, have been conserving our mountains, forests, rivers, seas, rangelands and deserts for millennia …
The media reported during the 25-31 October 2018 that the authorities in the Department of National Park. Wildlife and plants I met the inquiry officer. Kaeng Krachan Police Station Kaeng Krachan District Phetchaburi Province To prosecute, investigate and prosecute the traditional Karen ethnic group who used to live in Bang Kloi on the land and the land. Which was later declared Kaeng …
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Attempts by the National Park Department may constitute to judicial harassments Immediate released on 4 Nov 2018 During 25-31 October 2018, it has been widely reported that the Director General of the Department of National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation had instructed his officials to report the case with the Kaeng Krachan Police Station, Kaeng …
Kittisak Rattanakrajangsri, chairperson of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, sends his condolences to the family and community members of Koh-ee Mee who passed away today. Koh-ee Mee is an indigenous Karen leader of the Kaeng Krachan forest who fought a legal battle to claim their right to live in their own land.
Kittisak challenges the indigenous youth to continue the fight that Koh-ee Mee has started.
Statement of the Network of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand (NIPT) 15 June 2018 We issue this statement in reference to the Supreme Administrative Court Cases Aw Saw.77/2559 and Aw Saw.4/2561 between Mr. Ko-ee, or Kaw-ee Meemi, and 5 other plaintiffs against the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants Conservation and other defendants. Mr. Ko-ee …