Many Thai children learn the alphabet by rote memory -- A for Ant, B for Boy, C for Cat and so on. But for Wasin Pathomyok and Plengmontra Bubphamas, parents of a two-year-old daughter, they created an A to Z poster using a human rights theme. The idea of the ABC human rights poster came after Wasin and Plengmontra read English children's books such as A Is For Activist, An ABC of Equality and F For Feminism.
"We purchased several international children's books which teach A to Z using different themes. It looked fun to learn and we wanted to have more books like that, so my wife Plengmontra suggested we should create one. Before we decided to create a human rights poster, we were thinking about different themes such as democracy, media literacy and online safety. We decided to go ahead with the human rights theme because we did not have an opportunity to learn about it when we were young. Understanding human rights is important. It helps people respect themselves and others as well as understand diversity and freedom of expression," explained Wasin.
