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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• 28 May 2009

  No turning back on land reform

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  Looking for good news from trouble-plagued Thailand? Here's one item. An important one: Community land reform is becoming a reality.After years of struggle against death threats from land mafia and jail sentences from the legal system, the landless movement's demands for a more equitable land ...

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• 13 March 2009

  No end in sight to milk corruption

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  No more zoning regulations for the school milk programme. More UHT milk with a longer lifespan for the kids, instead of pasteurised milk which spoils easily.If we believe these new rules will solve the problem of corruption in the school milk programme while absorbing raw fresh milk from the local ...

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• 22 February 2009

  Hope on the hills

  By Sanitsuda Ekachai

  The Assembly of the Poor is still alive and well. So is its determination to pressure the government into solving land rights problems. That message was loud and clear when hundreds of villagers staged a protest at Government House recntly. The Assembly of the Poor champions different grassroots ...

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