Child protection
The stateless classrom
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, June 2009 – The large hall at Thaton Temple in Chiang Mai’s Mae Ai district has been turned into a makeshift classroom over the past few months. The mainly young students gathered here come from several different villages....
Consulting youth on peace
HAT YAI, Songkhla, Thailand, 9 March 2009 – The large, colorful drawing shows a monk, an Imam and Buddhist and Muslim citizens holding hands in a loving community where a mosque and a temple stand side by side....
Cathay Pacific staff brings ‘change for good’ to vulnerable children in Thailand
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 17 February 2009 – Nearly 30 Cathay Pacific airline staff members visited UNICEF-supported projects in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces in mid February to learn how the funds they have raised on Cathay Pacific flights benefit....
Child labour on the Thai-Cambodian border
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand November 2007 – As the sun rises over the Thai-Cambodian border town of Aranyaprathet, it reveals a straggling line of desperate people queuing to cross from Cambodia into Thailand. Among them are thousands of children coming....
Restorative justice
Bangkok, August 2007 - Last month, 14-year-old Wit* was arrested by police for stealing a 10-kilogramme of spool of electrical wire from a house where he was employed as a part-time construction worker. He spent one night behind bars....
Begging some difficult questions
BANGKOK, April 2007 – It's a typical weekday morning inside the Ban Phumvet reception home for boys in Nonthaburi – and it's typically hectic. Toys are scattered across the floor of an open-air classroom where around 20 children are about to...
Birth registration campaigns help Thailand's "rootless" kids
CHIANG RAI, June 2006 – Although she looks about 15 years old, Nida doesn’t know exactly how old she is or even where she was born. She has no legal documents, and just about all she remembers of her childhood is that after her mother died and her...
