Governments across Southeast Asia are using cybersecurity as cover to surveil critics, police borders, and protect the interests of those in power. 🇺🇳 The UN Cybercrime Treaty expands state-to-state cooperation, lowers evidentiary standards, and defines ‘cybercrime’ so broadly that activists, journalists, and organisers fall within reach. Tech companies are part of the problem too, as they profit from our data and then hand it to the governments pursuing us. The people who

94 years since the Siamese Revolution, when Siam ended absolute monarchy and became Thailand with a constitutional monarchy. 📍 But is Thailand a REAL democracy now? 🙅🏽‍♀️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗡𝗢. Thailand has become a SLAPPs hub, where people who criticise the monarchy's political role and its obstruction of the democratic process end up being expelled or even arrested on Lèse-Majesté charges. A country cannot call itself democratic while people a

#StopTransnationalRepression ✊ On 20 June, Manushya Foundation joined Na Projects at Bangkok 1899 for Living, Waiting, and Hoping | Refugees Among Us: Stories, Challenges, and Hope in Thailand to honour World Refugee Day. We’re immensely grateful to hear directly from refugees, raise awareness on transnational repression, share food & stories, and connect with allies including Asylum Access Thailand, Sati Foundation, Parami University, and Hear & Found. 🤝 Thailand is home to

On 20 June, we marked World Refugee Day, a moment for the world to pause and truly listen to the voices of those forced to flee their homeland. This year, we use this platform to uplift the voices of Lao political refugees, and to recount the stories of activists in exile who face unimaginable consequences simply for speaking out. They are subject to threats, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, and assassinations. These injustices happen not only inside Laos, but across bo

Manushya Foundation stands in solidarity with our feminist sisters at the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network (RMCN) against the coordinated hate speech targeting Rohingya refugees and women human rights defenders. Over the last few days, hundreds of racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic comments flooded our social media posts on our solidarity with the Rohingya refugees and survivors. 👉 Check the photos to see the hate narratives we documented, and why we refuse to st

#StopDigitalDictatorship! ✊ Repression in our region does not work alone. It works through the military-BigTech industrial complex’s control over the spaces where we speak and organise. 🇺🇳 This is Manushya Foundation's submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age. 🌏 Across Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the same machinery appears in different uniforms, such as vague cyber law

#NoToAgeGating! 🙅🏽‍♀️ When states say they want to “protect children” by banning them online, which children do they mean? 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧: 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧! 🙃 Freedom has never been granted from above. It has been seized, again and again, by the people most determined to be free, and most often by the young. In Manushya Foundation's submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, “𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯:

Salamat, #DRAPAC2026! From 8-10 June, Manushya joined fellow digital rights activists in Manila to push back against techno-colonialism and digital authoritarianism. At the session "Inside the Black Box: Mappining Civil Society Engagement with Big Tech on Content Moderation," hosted by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), our Founder & Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, drew from Manushya Foundation's s extensive work in grassroots-led platfor

Join us for 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘅: 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, a co-learning workshop organised by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), where Manushya Foundation is a proud member. 💻 🗓️ Wednesday, 10 June 2026 ⏰ 09:00-11:50 AM UTC+8 (Manila time) 📍 Room 403, University of the Philippines, BGC What happens when content moderation system