HDFF is offering a newly designed approach to Safety and Security Training: “SST Week”! PDF Outline Registration Form The environments in which humanitarian and development organizations work are continually changing with an additional growing demand for specific safety and security skill building. Experts and trainers of HDFF’s Human Development Training Center (HDTC) are aware of these [...]

PDF File On Monday, February 13, 2012 HDFF team attended a symposium arranged by the German –Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) on the topic of “Arab Spring – Prospects and Challenges for Good Governance in the Near and Middle East”. The event was held at the Faculty of [...]

 PDF Link Summary             Ongoing lese majeste reform debates are not only continuing but escalating as more opinion leaders’ way in on the discussion. Threats from both sides, including an army coup and limitations on constitutional rights, are rising and it does not appear that either side is backing down. Additionally, problems are expected to [...]

PDF Link After a long – flood related – break, HDFF’s Chairman’s Circle started the year 2012/2555 with a presentation by Police Lt Gen Tritot Ronnaritivichai, currently Commissioner to the Office of National Security Council (NSC), on “Movements of Terrorists inSoutheast Asia– Jemaah Islamiah and Al Qaeda”.  HDFF’s choice of topic for the month of [...]

“Thais with Patriotic Heart” gathered at Thammasat University entrance in protest against Nitirat on January 27, 2012. Source: Thansettakij Online PDF Link Summary The lese majeste debate took over both national and international headlines this week. Thammasat University rector Somkid Lertpaithoon’s banned campaigning regarding the amendment of Article 112 on University campuses as well as [...]