Date of publication
Dec. 1, 2022
Document Reference #

THA 3/2022

Publishing Organization
Communications send by Special Procedures on violations related to protected areas
Document Type
Communications
Country
Thailand
Original Document
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Communication sent by the Special Rapporteurs on housing, climate change, environment, food human rights defenders, minority issues, poverty and racism concerning the threat of forced evictions of 14 Isan minority members (9 women, 5 men), who are also land-right defenders, from their lands and homes in the Sab Wai village, situated in the Sai Thong National Park, under forest conservation policies and legislation. The eviction orders have been issued in the context of the Government’s climate change mitigation action without the provision of alternative accommodation and productive land, nor adequate compensation. Allegedly, the national strategy to address the adverse effects of climate change pursues “false solutions” that are resulting in practice in the criminalization and impoverishment of poor small-scale farmers who depend on forests for their livelihoods, while the need to reform the energy sector is neglected.