Bangkok Post: Opinion

Friday, November 23, 2012

Honour your maid, fight for women's rights

By Sanitsuda Ekachai

Charity begins at home. So do women's rights and gender equality. That's why who is doing the dishes at home is for me not a petty personal issue, but a political one. But whenever I raise this topic _ that a couple's equal share of household chores is an an indicator of gender equality in ...

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• 31 August 2009

  Cruelty and heartlessness

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  If decency is measured by how we treat those less fortunate than us, then we cannot call ourselves decent, given our heartlessness towards migrant workers.In mid-August, two Rohingya teenage boys wilted and died inside Ranong detention centre. Doomed for a life in a limbo behind bars, they just ...

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• 24 August 2009

  Extraordinary ordinary women of the South

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  What is going on in the three Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces? Five years on, and we still don't have a clue who are the masterminds behind the ongoing violence in the deep South and what exactly it is that they want.If only we knew...We really believe that, don't we?We believe that if we ...

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• 17 August 2009

  Stop hunting for 'foreign' scapegoats

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  It is one thing to nurse concern for small-scale farmers. It is another thing, however, to make foreigners the scapegoats. For the so-called backbone of the country, the lack of farmland indeed poses a serious problem to Thai farmers, who are also struggling with indebtedness from the high cost of ...

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• 10 August 2009

  Living with a dying sea

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

   Now in her 80s, a granny at Ban Pod, a small fishing village in Surat Thani, still has vivid memories of a happy childhood. That should make her glad. Instead, it makes her sad.Not for herself, though. But for her children and grandchildren, who are helplessly watching their village ...

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