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Yindee Lertcharoensok Collection

Period  1988-2000
Total size   2.75 m. 
Consultation Not restricted 

Biography

A Thai national; studied in Bangkok; later MA in Southeast Asian Studies from University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies; worked with an INGO on a refugee resettlement programme; journalist with The Nation, an English-language daily in Thailand 1988-2000; her main subjects were Thai foreign diplomacy, South-East Asian current affairs, and political, economic, and social issues, including regional ethnic and territorial conflicts, drugs and arms smuggling, and refugees and human rights; was later on assistant editor, wrote commentaries and her weekly column 'From the Edge'; joined in 2000 UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok working on projects, supported by the Asian Development Bank and the British government, on birth and citizenship registration and anti-trafficking of women and children in the Greater Mekong Sub-region; worked since March 2006 with UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok.

Content

In Thai language: documents on economic development, human rights, migrant workers, minority groups, natural resources and other topics; press releases from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand 1988-2000.

In English language: documents on All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF), Amnesty International, Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB), Human Rights Watch Asia, Karen National Union (KNU), League for Democracy and Peace (LDP), Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Union National Democracy Party (UNDP), US Committee for Refugees, and other organizations and issues related to Burmese and Thai society and the relations between both countries 1988-2000.

Arrangement

Distinction is made between documents in Thai and documents in English language; documents are alphabetically arranged along lines of organizations and topics

Processing information

List of the first part made by Eef Vermeij and edited by Bouwe Hijma in 2010, list of the second part by the same authors in 2011.