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The Foundation For Women (FFW) has sent one staff together with a women affected by Tsunami from Phang-gna to participate in Asian Women’s Consultation on Post Tsunami Challenges, which has been hold on 25-27 July 2005, in Aceh, Indonesia and the statement from the meeting is below:
We, over 60 women, survivors of the tsunami and activists involved in the tsunami relief and reconstruction efforts, from India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia gathered in Banda Aceh in the village of Lambaro Seubun on July 25-27, 2005, for the Asian Women’s Consultation on Post Tsunami Challenges.

Seven months after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, affected women continue to be marginalised, discriminated and excluded from the process of rebuilding on all levels: the family, the community and the nation.

We met in Aceh realising the significance and challenges women face in the tsunami aftermath.

On 26 December 2004, the seaquake - Tsunami was crashed into the six coastal provinces of the southern of Thailand, which are Phuket, Phanga, Ranong, Krabi, Trang and Satun. The natural disaster has brought human suffering and loss as never before in human history. Apart from the large number of casualties and missing people, there is a loss of properties, and means of livelihood
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Today, as people around the world celebrate International Women's Day, scores of tsunami widows are still waiting for help. Uppermost in their minds is the hope of getting long-term scholarships for their children and assistance in finding jobs
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Voices of Thai Women

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Issue 21 July 2004
- Editorial Note
-Sexual Exploitation in Prostitution Context
-Foundation for Women and Activities in 2003
-Cross-Border Trafficking of Women and Children:
Current Situation and forms of Assistance
-The situation of Uzbek Women in Thailand
-Study Visit to Uzbekistan
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July 2004
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May 2003
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December 2000
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December 1999

The Foundation for Women
Giving Assistance to Tsunami -affected
Women and Children from 16 households
in the Bangthao Village, Thalang district, Phuket
It’s been over a month since the tsunami rage over the Andaman coast of Thailand, the disaster continues in the lives of the residents in the Andaman coast of Thailand. Assistance from the public and private section has not been sufficient and missing women and children living in some areas including the Bangthao Village, Thalang district, Phuket
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Volunteer Teacher at Kamla School, Phuket
Kamla School is one school that has been affected by Tsunami and from this tragedy the school had lost 1 teacher and 5 children from the total of 345 had lost their mothers. The immediate assistance had been provided to them at the beginning but they also need long-term support to sustain their lives. Not only those, the houses of children from 49 families have been damaged and need urgent repair and as a result from these 21 children had resigned from school to study somewhere else.
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Human Trafficking : From Vertical to horizontal Journey
Human trafficking is one form of human tragedy that jeopardises the dignity of the marginalised group namely poor women and children. It is a reflection of unequal relationship between the rich and the poor, women and men, developed and developing countries. Globalisation has aggravated this inequality and made people in the south a reservoir of cheap labour for industrialised and newly industiralised countries.
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Discourse on Violence against Women :
The case of Marital Rape
In November 2002 during the Campaign against VAW month, Alliance for the Advancement of Women, in collaboration with Foundation for Women and Gender and Development Working Group organized a seminar on "Discourse on Violence against Women: the case of Marital Rape". The purpose of this seminar was to report on the progress of the Campaign for the amendment of Article 276 in the Thai Criminal Code, which allows husbands who rape their wives to go unpunished, and to raise general public awareness on the issue of violence against women.
The followings are some of the main points emerging from the seminar.
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