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Thailand Humanitarian Customs Regulations

This information was submitted in response to a questionnaire distributed by Global Hand regarding humanitarian customs information. It provides regulations for importing humanitarian aid into Thailand.

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Tangerine Dreams: Boom and Bust in Northern Thailand

This is a documentary about the tangerine cash crop industry in Northern Thailand and how it has shaped the environment and communities.

Heifer Project International (Thailand)

The first activity of Heifer Project International (Thailand) started in 1974, focused on marginalized ethnic minorities living in the mountainous regions of northern Thailand. The first project, providing cattle to families in 21 villages, was conducted with one of these groups. Later fish ponds...

ActionAid - Thailand

ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. It operates in more than 30 developing countries- working alongside poor and marginalised communities to help them fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, education, healthcare and a voice in...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Thailand

UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organisation advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. It has presence in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development...

Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC)

The Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC) is the central coordination agency for all landmine issues and operations in Thailand. Organisational activities include the coordination, monitoring and implementation of mine clearance, the surveying of landmine and other unexploded ordnance, awareness...

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Thailand

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a Swiss-based humanitarian organisation with offices in many countries worldwide. Its mission is to work on a strictly neutral basis to protect and assist people affected by armed conflicts and internal disturbances. It directs and coordinates...

Customs Department - Thailand

The state customs administration of Thailand is responsible for facilitating global trade, providing an effective control on the movement of goods (imports, exports and transit goods) in and out of the country, and ensuring security in the supply chain to meet trader and stakeholder expectations.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Thailand

USAID is the agency through which the US government channels economic and humanitarian aid worldwide. Assistance is channelled through programme priority areas as identified by the reciepient country. USAID's programme in Thailand focuses on HIV/AIDS, democracy and governance, and the environment....

Asia Foundation - Thailand

The Asia Foundation is an American NGO committed to the development of a prosperous and open Asia-Pacific region. The four areas of particular interest to the Foundation are governance, law and civil society; women's participation; economic reform and development; and international development. The...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA) - Thailand

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is an independent humanitarian agency established in 1984 for the specific purposes of individual and community development and disaster relief. ADRA helps people in need, especially those most vulnerable, such as women, children, and...

Siam-Care - Thailand

Siam Care is a Christian NGO working in Bangkok, Thailand to help meet the needs of the many families affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly the poor and disadvantaged. The organisation runs a home-based care project which focuses on building long-term relationships with affected families, and a...

Oxfam UK - Thailand

Oxfam International is a development and relief agency that helps people in the struggle against poverty by finding lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. Oxfam UK is part of Oxfam International, a confederation of 13 organisations working worldwide to combat poverty and to promote...

World Education Thailand (aka World Education Consortium)

World Education Thailand (aka World Education Consortium), a field office of World Education Inc., trains teachers and administrators in the Burmese refugee camps along the border and in nearby Thai villages. The organisation's works in close cooperation with local NGOs.

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South Asia: Earthquake & Tsunami Dec 2004 Maps - ARCHIVED

Maps of relevance to the Asia quake/tsunami situation.

In: Stories

Chevron supports Global Fund to fight diseases

Chevron Corporation is Global Fund's first Corporate Champion, making a commitment to invest in Global Fund-supported programs fighting AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in parts of Asia and Africa.

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Safe Kids Walk This Way and FedEx promote child pedestrian safety.

Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. The goal of the joint initiative is to prevent pedestrian-related injury to children.

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Big business with the UNHCR helps refugees

The UNHCR Council of Business Leaders joined forces in 2005 to unlock the potential of more than 30,000 refugees around the world.

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NIKE Village Development Project

Nike in partnership with the Population & Community Development Association (PDA) and local villages, established the ‘NIKE Village Development Project’ in Thailand.

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Red Cross Society trains Coca-Cola staff in disaster response skills

In Thailand, Coca-Cola formed a disaster preparedness partnership with the Thai Red Cross Society to train its employees.