<p>A Thai civil society organisation has started a campaign to amend Thailand’s immigration law to grant temporary shelter for Rohingya refugees and other asylum seekers.</p> <p><a href="http://www.thaiforrefugees.org/">Thai Committee for Refugees Foundation (TCR)</a>, a Thailand based CSO established to assist refugees and asylum seekers, opened a page on&nbsp;<a href="//localhost/about/blank">Change.org</a>&nbsp;in order to collect names for a campaign called ‘Treat Them (asylum seekers) like Tourists’ to amend the Kingdom’s 1979 Immigration Act.</p>

<p>(BANGKOK)—Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia should immediately coordinate search and rescue operations for Rohingya asylum seekers and possible survivors of trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh who are stranded at sea,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fortifyrights.org/">Fortify Rights</a>&nbsp;said today. The governments of these three countries should open their borders to asylum seekers and provide survivors with access to asylum procedures, protection from detention and forced returns, and freedom of movement.</p>

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