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Asean urged to protect the Maniq people

Asean urged to protect the Maniq people

Seminar hears plea to help minorities

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) should negotiate an agreement for the protection of the rights of ethnic minorities, including the Maniq (Sakai), some of whom settled in the South of Thailand during the coronavirus outbreak, a forum was told.

Siwanoot Soitong, a lawyer for the Bangkok Legal Clinic at the Faculty of Law of Thammasat University, called for Asean to step up the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples.

“The Maniq live in Malaysia and Thailand and travel across the Sankalakhiri Range. Sea gypsies also live in Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia where territorial waters are interlinked. If you provide social security benefits by definition of nationality, it is outdated because we are now talking about…

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