Thailand: Stop Border Pushbacks, Provide Protection

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A protester waving a Myanmar nation flag in front of the United Nation building during the demonstration. © 2021 Peerapon Boonyakiat / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (New York) – Thai authorities should immediately stop expelling asylum seekers at the Myanmar border, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand should allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) unhindered access to asylum seekers from Myanmar to determine whether they qualify for refugee status. On March 7, 2021, the Thai army’s Pha Muang Taskforce in Chiang Rai province intercepted…

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