Child protection
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...
