On 8 January 2025, Thailand’s House of Representatives held its sixth meeting of the second annual ordinary session and voted to remove the phrase “including ethnic tribes” from Article 3 of the Draft Act on the Protection and Promotion of the Way of Life of Ethnic and Indigenous Communities. The motion passed with 252 votes in favour of the majority committee’s recommendation to exclude the wording, while 153 MPs supported the minority committee’s proposal to retain it. The majority of Mem... (more)