To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we feature Nittaya Muangklang, a woman fighter from Chaiyaphum who was drawn into her community’s fight to hold on to their land in the face of an aggressive government aiming to prosecute those it seemed as encroaching on national park land. The journey saw her take a leadership role in the fight, be prosecuted and imprisoned, and finally win her freedom. She’s learned a lot on the journey and encourages more women to take up the fight.
Jailed for fighting to reclaim the right to her family’s land, Nittaya Muangklang has found solace and enlightenment through her activism
Nittaya Muangklang has been fiercely fighting to seek justice for the impact that her family has borne stemming from the forest conservation policies imposed during the rule of former Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha.
She ended up in jail but stood her…
