Selected Articles and Publications
"Best Practice for Reaching the Unreached: Ethnic Minorities and HIV Prevention" by Dr. Heather Peters.
The "Best Practice for Reaching the Unreached: Ethnic Minorities and HIV Prevention" is prepared by Dr. Heather Peters, Senior Consultant at Culture Unit, UNESCO Bangkok. The article is designed as a manual for people who want to develop audio-visual materials in minority ethnic languages. Explaining and giving examples of why culture and language are essential in HIV prevention, the manual offers a simple but detailed explanation of the 12-Step UNESCO Methodology for developing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention materials, such as radio shows, soap operas, film and music. It also outlines practical steps needed to design and produce a prevention drama in ethnic languages.
"Stateless in their own home" By Krista Clement
Published in UNESCO VOICES, Edition 25, Jan-Mar 2011
Krista Clement explains the issues surrounding citizenship and birth registration, and tells us what the UNESCO Trafficking and HIV/AIDS project is doing to help those who are stateless in northern Thailand.
For more information on the issue of statelessness, visit our Highland Citizenship and Birth Registration Project page here.
"UNESCO Promotes Highland Citizenship and Birth Registration to Prevent Human Trafficking" By David A. Feingold, Ph. D.
UNESCO Bangkok Newsletter Issue No. 8, September, 2006, Page 5.
Research by UNESCO has identified lack of citizenship or lack of legal status as the single greatest risk factor for young hill tribe people in northern Thailand to be trafficked or exploited. It also contributes to increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. UNESCO is determined to address issues of structural vulnerability as these relate to both human trafficking and HIV/AIDS. Consequently, UNESCO, in cooperation with the British Embassy in Bangkok, has initiated the Highland Birth and Citizenship Registration Promotion Project. The project is funded by the UK Sustainable Development Programme Fund. This project is an expansion of the successful pilot project, begun in 2001 with the support of UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP), which trained NGOs and Thai officials to register highland people for citizenship.
Social Fabric, Education and HIV Vulnerability Among the Lanten Yao of Muang Long, Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR By Jacques Lemoine.
Published by UNESCO-ORACAP, Bangkok 2002.
The paper conducted a focused research, using ethnographic methodology, in Lanten Yao villages in Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR, in support of the UNIAP-UNESCO trafficking and HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives among highland minorities. The author analyzed Lanten Yao patterns of mobility and trade, in particular connections to China, in preparation for the expansion of the GIS-Linked Social Sentinel Surveillance to the Lao-China Border. It also gathered information on Lanten concepts of the origins, etiology, transmission mechanisms and prevention of disease, as these apply to HIV/ADS.
Conference on Cultural Factors in the Transmission, Prevention and Care of HIV/AIDS in the Upper Mekong Region (Conference Proceeding)
Summary of Country Assessments: An International Overview Studies and Reports, Special Series, Issue No.10, Division of Cultural Policies, UNESCO, 2002.
Selected Articles
One Size Does Not Fit All: Ethno-Linguistic Minorities and Inclusive Growth
By David A. Feingold, Ph. D
Prepared for the ADB Forum on Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction in the New Asia and Pacific October 8-9, 2007 in Manila, Philippines
By David A. Feingold, Ph.D.
In Session 6: Poverty Reduction and Inclusion – Messages from NPRS and PRF Poverty Funds Initiatives,
Think Again: Human Trafficking
By David A. Feingold, Ph. D
Published for the "Think Again" Series in Foriegn Policy Magazine, August 30, 2005
By David A. Feingold, Ph. D.
In Grant Evans et al., Where China Meets Southeast Asia: Social & Cultural Change in the Border Regions. Singapore: ISEAS/ Bangkok: White Lotus/ New York: St. Martin’s Press. 2000
By David A. Feingold, Ph. D
Paper prepared for publication in “New Cargo: The Global Business of Trafficking in Women”, a special issue of Refuge (vol. 17, no. 5, November, 1998)
