ACTIVISTS are calling on the authorities to cut down on the red-tape and speed up the nationality verification process in order to eradicate statelessness nationwide, instead of dealing with it on a case-by-case basis.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS are still not fully respected in Thailand, say campaigners, even though it is 32 years since the country ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).