Thais will sit out NGO meet

2 April 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Human rights / Social development
ASEAN People’s Forum / ASEAN Summit / civil society groups / Lucky Star Hotel / NGOs / Premrudee Daoroung / regional government / Thai civil society / Thailand

Civil society groups from Thailand will boycott a meeting between NGOs and regional government representatives at this week’s ASEAN summit because their country’s delegate “does not represent Thai civil society”, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Premrudee Daoroung, a representative of Thai civil society groups, said her country’s government had shown “complete disregard for meaningful engagement” by selecting a representative who had played no part in the independent Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum, which ran from Thursday to Saturday at the capital’s Lucky Star Hotel. …

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