Hmong Refugees Living in Fear: Part 1

February 24, 2019 — 02/24/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The Hmong ethnic minority group has lived in Vietnam for many generations. Their ancestors are believed to have migrated from the southern provinces of...

Thailand Aims to Reform Tough Refugee Policy After Saudi Asylum Case

January 21, 2019 — 01/21/2019 Thailand (International Christian Concern) – The 18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun's quest for resettlement as an asylum-seeker might inspire better treatment for Thailand’s refugee community. On January 11,...

Pakistani Christians Stranded In Thailand

December 9, 2018 — 12/9/2018 Thailand (International Christian Concern) – Due to the intense persecution faced by Pakistani Christians each day, many have decided to leave their homeland to find refuge in a foreign...

Pakistani Christian Refugees Remain Stranded in Thailand

December 9, 2018 — 12/09/2018 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – In 2009, seven Christians died when more than 100 Christian homes were set on fire in Gojra, Pakistan. The fires led to over 10,000...

181 Christian Refugees still Detained by Thailand Authorities

November 6, 2018 — 11/06/2018 Thailand (International Christian Concern) – It has been over two months since Thai authorities have arrested and detained over 181 Montagnard refugees from Vietnam on the outskirts of Bangkok....

Pakistani Asylum Seekers to be Deported from Thailand

October 30, 2018 — 10/30/2018 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – Thousands of Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand are on pins and needles following a decision by the Thai government to start deporting individuals...

Bangkok Detention Center Violating Human Rights of Detainees

September 26, 2018 — 09/26/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Bangkok’s infamous Immigration Detention Center is a holding facility in Thailand for people who are caught trying to stay illegally in the country....

181 Montagnard Refugees Still Detained in Bangkok

September 19, 2018 —

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09/19/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – More than three weeks have passed since Thai authorities arrested and detained...

Terrorist Threat In Southeast Asia Growing As IS Fighters Return

February 8, 2018 — ICC Note: Last month, six Southeast Asian nations in ASEAN signed an intelligence pact to combat militancy as foreign fighters from the Islamic State lose ground and return to their...

Thailand’s immigration detention centers ‘inhumane’ for refugees

November 19, 2017 — ICC Note: Refugees who end up coming to Thailand’s Immigration and Detention Camp’s (IDTs) face shockingly inhumane conditions. A young Rohingya girl who was waiting and hoping for help to...

Thailand: Release asylum seekers detained in raids, rights group urges

November 6, 2017 — ICC Note: Thirty-five asylum seekers from Pakistan and Somalia who were arrested in Thailand between October 21 and October 31, remain in detention, according to watchdog Fortify Rights. Thailand’s government...

Another Pakistani Christian Asylum Seeker Died in Thailand

October 27, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian asylum seekers who escaped from Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy are experiencing serious hardships in Thailand. Unfortunately that is the case for several Christians who have...

Religious freedom is another casualty of Southeast Asia’s regressive turn

October 11, 2017 — ICC Note: Rising religious intolerance, persecution, and intercommunal conflicts have been growing in the Southeast Asia. Religious violations against the Rohingya Muslims and other religious minorities in Myanmar have pretty...

Christian asylum seeker threatened by Pakistani embassy officials in Thailand

September 27, 2017 — ICC Note: A 23-year-old Pakistani Christian woman was sexually harassed by a Pakistani embassy official while she tried to discuss her passport renewal options as asylum seeker in Thailand. The...

Report on Pakistani Christian Community in Thailand Highlights Persecution

September 7, 2017 — ICC Note: UK-based human rights organization Global Minorities Alliance argues that Christians in Pakistan should be given a group recognition for the persecution that they face in their home country...

UNHCR failing persecuted Christian refugees in Bangkok

August 15, 2017 — ICC Note: The United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, according to many Christian Pakistani asylum-seekers in Thailand, have time and again failed to accept evidence of persecution that could help...