NCPO urged to tackle violence against women, children

BANGKOK, July 9 – Thailand’s Foundation for Women and women’s networks called on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to tackle violence against women and children and called for the resignation of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) governor after a girl was raped and killed on a train.

Representatives of Foundation for Women (FFW), together with regional and Bangkok-based women’s networks, submitted a proposal to the NCPO at the Government House Center for Public Service in Bangkok on Wednesday to end violence against children and women after a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed on a Bangkok-bound train from the southern province of Surat Thani before being thrown out of the moving train.

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