My IDPs friends and I used to wonder how the people power help solving the problems in their villages. It was hard to work things out in slient and could not get recognitions from authorities. Year by year along our journey some friends dropped out of our working as they did feel it was hopless and too tired to go on.
Many of the friends from Migrant Laotians also quitted along the way during our working on documentation for Thai citizenships process. It was much easier for them to go under the corruption system to get the citizenship. It was regret, but it was their own choice.
People power may take sometimes, long time or forever to get to our goals. Just keep the beief of its power and trying to move on along this endless journey.
Now we have come to another significant step on the issue of Indigenous People. Our networking completed and sent a shadow report of ICERD to the committee in Geneva. It was good to see the fruitful result of people power where many people come together to work on it.
People Power is nothing when we do not belief it's value in creation of changes for the better!
2 comments:
I read the Thai government report to the ICERD this morning, and learnt a lot about the scope of issues facing your people. But it did not say much about the social realities behind, which I can imagine from your blog. It always requires a lot of effort from civil soviety to mach people's needs and government policies, even in countries with public servants thatar non-corrupt, well meaning and supplied with resources. I am sure that your efforts offer a valuable contribution to the best of both the people involved and to Thai society in general.
Thank you and so sorry for this late reply.
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