Experts call for better treatment of Thailand’s urban refugees

By STELLA DAVIES 
THE SUNDAY NATION 

 

BANGKOK:-- Urban refugees are living difficult lives in Thailand and there needs to be proper legal protection and sufficient humanitarian aid for them to survive, a seminar has been told.

 

Panel speakers at the seminar on “Stand Up for Urban Refugees’ Rights” called for better treatment toward urban asylum seekers and refugees.

 

The event was hosted by the European Union Delegation to Thailand at Central World on Friday to mark International Human Rights Day yesterday. It was aimed at raising public awareness on the current situation of urban asylum seekers and refugees in Thailand.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30301865

 

 

 

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Webfact should go on to define "urban refugee". 

 

It is a person who "lives [in] a precarious existence – unable to work, often unable to send their children to school, financially stressed and dependent on arbitrary handouts to survive". 

 

Article also contextualises non thais as the focus of the refugee.

 

 

Why don't they call a spade, "A Spade" anymore?

 

Urban refugee, instead of street beggar?

 

Environment engineer, instead of garbage collector?

37 minutes ago, trogers said:

Why don't they call a spade, "A Spade" anymore?

 

Urban refugee, instead of street beggar?

 

Environment engineer, instead of garbage collector?

Wouldn't that be racist? Perhaps it's racist for me to even think that's racist. 

40 minutes ago, trogers said:

Why don't they call a spade, "A Spade" anymore?

 

Urban refugee, instead of street beggar?

 

Environment engineer, instead of garbage collector?

Oh for heaven's sake we can't do that. It would not be PC.

12 minutes ago, tuktuktuk said:

Wouldn't that be racist? Perhaps it's racist for me to even think that's racist. 

 

Yes, calling Satan the devil is racist too...

 

Words were created by our forefathers to mean what they say...to tell the difference between good and evil, between desirable and undesirable...

Edited December 11, 20169 yr by trogers

So 'urban refugee' is the new polite term for street beggar? How ridiculous. Political correctness is all about controlling/ censoring thought and speech. There is enough of that here in Thailand already.

 

Heaven help us if Political Correctness also takes hold in Thailand. Then the noose will well and truly be in a death-choke around our necks!

Eligius, how do you make these leaps?^^^ Or do you just pissing in the wind?

European Union Delegation

 

Don't they better things to do than sticking their nose in things that don't concern them.

7 hours ago, trogers said:

Why don't they call a spade, "A Spade" anymore?

 

Urban refugee, instead of street beggar?

 

Environment engineer, instead of garbage collector?

In Thailand a spade is never a spade. It is usually a shovel or something else far removed. Not so much face is lost that way.

Just like the Thai spin doctors describing a decline in exports as "negative growth".

7 minutes ago, Brer Fox said:

In Thailand a spade is never a spade. It is usually a shovel or something else far removed. Not so much face is lost that way.

Just like the Thai spin doctors describing a decline in exports as "negative growth".

 

Actually, the term 'negative growth' was coined up by scholars of the West, like negative interest rates...

Euphemistic language is fine by me, as long as neither the intent or result is to hide or obfuscate the truth. George Carlin did a fantastic bit about euphemisms.