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Migrant children need education, legal status – Mahidol researcher
A Mahidol University researcher urged the government to improve education and legal migration measures for almost a half-million Southeast Asian children in Thailand illegally.Presenting the results of research done by for the university’s Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies on International Children’s Rights Day ...
Thitirath Dechprom
Governments of Thailand-Myanmar successfully organized the return of the second batch of the displaced persons from Myanmar
On 7 May 2018, the Governments of Thailand and Myanmar successfully returned the second group of 93 displaced persons from Myanmar to their homeland. A total of 20 persons from Ban Mai Nai Soi Temporary Shelter in Mae Hong Son Province left Thailand and entered ...
Myanmar refugees returning from Thailand but Rakhine still out of bounds: UN Refugee Agency
Thailand has repatriated nearly 100 mostly Karen and Karenni refugees to Myanmar from border camps in Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces, where they had fled conflict between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic groups over the past three decades.Keep reading ...
The Nation Reporter
After decades in border camps, Karen refugees leave for Myanmar
Ninety-three refugees from Myanmar who have been living in camps along Thailand’s western border have gone home, the second such return since 2016, the UN refugee agency, raising hopes for the eventual closure of some of Asia’s oldest refugee camps.Keep reading ...
Reuters