A couple from Myanmar are among the first to benefit from the Thai Government’s move to grant refugees in camps access to legal employment, offering an inclusive solution to long-term displacement.

BAN MAE NAI SOI CAMP, Thailand, November 22 (UNHCR) - With the opening Wednesday of the first of seven planned legal assistance centres, tens of thousands of Burmese refugees in Thailand should soon ...

Refugees at a temporary shelter in Oddar Meanchey province ner Thailand are working together with locals to grow and harvest ...

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The Thai government recently lifted a decades-long ban on working rights for long-term refugees from Myanmar who live in Thailand in a string of nine camps just near the border between the two ...

It had been decades since my mother, my siblings, and I fled postwar Vietnam and arrived at the refugee camps in Thailand, where we were processed by the United Nations and granted asylum. In a ...

The wrinkled limestone karst landscape of the Thai-Burmese border is home to around 130,000 Burmese refugees. Many who fled decades of ethnic conflict have lost their lands, families and livelihoods, ...

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Thai government to permit Myanmar refugees in the country to travel and seek employment, amid food and healthcare shortages resulting from US aid ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand will give legal employment rights to thousands of Myanmar refugees now living in camps along the border between the two countries, the government said on Wednesday, a move ...