BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Back-to-back fires that ravaged two refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border - killing one person and affecting 900 - have added to mounting pressure on the refugees to return home, amid talks on repatriating them as Myanmar opens up after half a century of brutal military rule.
“UNHCR’s Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) is one of WEAVE's largest customers”, said Gaela Roudy-Fraser, the Coordinator of our Self-reliance lab, who has recently paid a visit to WEAVE’s showroom in Mae Sot, some 500 km north-west of Bangkok. In 2011, the PSFR team in Thailand brokered with WEAVE the first contract for the production of premiums – promotional items that individuals receive as gifts upon making financial donations to UNHCR.
On December 14, 2013, Lanna Cafe, Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade, Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment and Wongwian, members of the Northern Thailand Fair Trade Network and are working towards poverty alleviation organized a 1-day Christmas event. The collective activity was intended to benefit their local partners, the economically disadvantaged hill tribe and refugee women men and communities of artisans in the rural areas of Northern Thailand.
Northern Thailand Fair Trade Group will hold a Fair Trade Christmas Sale on December 14, 2013 (Saturday) at the Thai Tribal Crafts Fair Trade Co., Ltd, 208 Bamrungat Rd., Chiang…
Today, December 10 WEAVE Foundation and WEAVE Fair Trade Co.Ltd. join the rest of world in commemorating the 20th anniversary of Human Rights Day. "Together, let us further intensify our…