Thailand Has Ousted Its Prime Minister – Here’s Why You Should Care It’s over: Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has finally been ousted by a Thai court after a contentious and occasionally bloody political standoff that has dragged on since last summer. In office since the summer of 2011, Shinawatra rode the Thai political […]
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#Censorship Fail: Repressive Governments Are Scared of Social Media – UN Dispatch
Social media is incredibly scary to repressive governments because it is just about impossible to control. Many authoritarian governments even look to incredibly censored North Korea and Eritrea as role models, instead of cautionary tales. Although the US government has announced sanctions against countries that try to block Internet access, international disapproval is unlikely to sway these […]
Human Rights Go From Bad to Worse in Cambodia: UN Dispatch
Borei Keila evictee Art Samnang spoke to me yesterday after her second arrest. Land Grabs in Cambodia Human rights in Cambodia have gone from bad to worse in January, prompting Human Rights Watch to issue a damning report on the Southeast Asian nation’s rights slide. The Cambodian government has been especially rough on protesters demonstrating […]
UN Dispatch Latest: Why Victims of Borei Keila Land Grabs are Protesting at US Embassy
Violent clashes and protests over a land-grabbing disputed have taken place in the heart of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh this week, after a development company began to bulldoze the slum homes of 300 poor families. The destruction has prompted a wave of evictee protests at Western embassies, as victims hope to draw world […]