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MARCH 14, 2012

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. I followed up the Chiang Mai gathering with other meetings with Thailand-based Martus users, and just touched down in New York.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

She met us at the airport and dropped our bags off at our hotel and took us to a major crafts fair being held outside of town (where we saw products produced by numerous social enterprises: more on the social enterprise action in Laos and Thailand in my next post).

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Rare is working in Abaco Island in the Bahamas to protect critically threatened species like the Spiny Lobster, Eastern Steppe Mongolia to help save the Mongolian gazelle among other species; and Uthaithanee, Thailand to save the Indochinese tiger. Miradi should help them achieve their goals.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand. WBU is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide with vision impairments. The organization’s priorities are decided upon at the WBU General Assembly, which is held every four years.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I just spent almost three weeks in Thailand and Laos on a combined work and vacation trip. Bangkok, Thailand (and other locations). The man behind Cabbages and Condoms is Mechai Viravaidya , founder of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (“PDA”). Cabbages and Condoms.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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APRIL 7, 2013

I recently had the pleasure of visiting one of our longtime Martus partners in Thailand, The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ( ND-Burma ). ND-Burma, a Thailand-based coalition of over ten human rights groups, has been collecting narrative testimonies from victims and witnesses of human rights abuses by the Burmese regime.

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