On 25 October 2004, Thai security forces violently cracked down on Malay Muslim protesters in Tak Bai, Narathiwat. Seven people were killed during the crackdown. Another 78 died after being bound and stacked on top of one another in army trucks. On 25 October 2024, the 20-year statute of limitations expired without any of the accused being brought before the court. Families’ decades-long struggle for accountability was met with another door slammed shut. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙢�

On 20 October, grassroots communities launched 28 advocacy factsheets exposing #WhatsHappeningInThailand ahead of the country’s UN human rights review on 9 November, bringing overlooked realities and demands to the forefront. Organised by Manushya Foundation and the Thai CSOs Coalition for the UPR and UN Mechanisms, with the101.world as official media partner, our press conference exposed what official accounts too often leave out: 🌱 Indigenous and rural communities defendin

ในวันที่ 20 ตุลาคม ชุมชนรากหญ้าร่วมเปิดตัวเอกสารข้อเท็จจริงเพื่อการรณรงค์ 28 ฉบับ เปิดเผย #WhatsHappeningInThailand ก่อนการทบทวนสถานการณ์สิทธิมนุษยชนไทยโดยสหประชาชาติในวันที่ 9 พฤศจิกายน เพื่อนำเสนอความเป็นจริงที่มักถูกมองข้ามและข้อเรียกร้องของประชาชนให้เป็นที่รับรู้ในวงกว้าง งานแถลงข่าวจัดโดยมูลนิธิมนุษยะและเครือข่ายองค์กรภาคประชาสังคมไทยเพื่อกระบวนการ UPR และกลไกสหประชาชาติ โดยมี the101.world เป็นมีเดียพาร์ทเนอร์อย่างเป็นทางการ การแถลงข่าวของเราเผยให้เห็นสิ่งที่รายงานจากภาค

They took centre stage today at our UPR IV Press Conference, exposing #WhatsHappeningInThailand. After a year-long process of feminist movement-building across all regions in the country, Indigenous women, workers, environmental defenders, activists, and human rights advocates demanded that UN recommending states hear their realities and demands ahead of Thailand’s UN review (UPR IV) on 9 November. 🔗 Check out the 28 advocacy factsheets here: www.manushyafoundation.org/thail

ชุมชนแนวหน้าเปิดตัวเอกสารข้อมูลเพื่อการรณรงค์ 28 ฉบับ ก่อนการทบทวนสถานการณ์สิทธิมนุษยชนของไทยตามกลไก UPR รอบที่ 4 พร้อมเรียกร้องให้โลกตัดสินสถานการณ์ของไทยจากความเป็นจริงที่ผู้คนต้องเผชิญทุกวัน สามารถเข้าถึงชุดข้อมูลสำหรับสื่อมวลชนได้ที่นี่: bit.ly/UPRIVFactsheetsMedia กรุงเทพมหานคร ประเทศไทย | 21 ตุลาคม 2569 — ผู้นำชุมชนรากหญ้า นักปกป้องสิทธิมนุษยชน และภาคีภาคประชาสังคมจากทั่วประเทศกว่า 350 คน ร่วมเปิดตัวเอกสารข้อมูลเพื่อการรณรงค์ด้านสิทธิมนุษยชน 28 ฉบับในวันนี้ ผ่านงานแถลงข

Frontline communities launch 28 advocacy factsheets ahead of Thailand’s Fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR IV), demanding that Thailand’s human rights record be judged against the realities people live every day. Access the press kit here: bit.ly/UPRIVFactsheetsMedia BANGKOK, THAILAND | 21 October 2026 — A coalition of more than 350 grassroots leaders, human rights defenders and civil society partners from across Thailand launched 28 human rights advocacy factsheets at a p

The Phichit villagers faced toxic contamination, corporate intimidation and a decade-long legal battle against the country’s largest gold mine. They refused to back down. And they won. 🌾 Phichit women cared for the sick, defended their livelihoods, gathered evidence and organised their communities to confront the harms of the Chatree Gold Mine. Even as villagers faced intimidation and lawsuits designed to silence them, they kept demanding accountability. ⚖️ On 24 March 2026,

📍 53 years ago today, the 14 October 1973 Uprising took place, which remains one of the most important events in modern Thai history. A major victory for the people, the protests resulted in the end of Thanom Kittikachorn’s military dictatorship. The significance of the event is further amplified by the university-student leaders' success in unifying the entire country for a common goal. ✊🏽 Besides the victory, let's also not forget that, on that day, while being ordered to

Years of governmental neglect and profit-driven orientation in urban planning, disguised as development, have submerged Bangkok and Central Thailand under weeks of severe flooding. 🗣️Continuous flooding in the region is accelerated by decades of filling in natural water channels (khlongs) for real estate, heavy groundwater extraction by industrial plants and municipal flood defenses that protect financial districts over working-class neighborhoods. 🌏Across Southeast Asia

⚖️ Our wellbeing is shaped by the systems we are forced to survive in: poverty and precarity, racism, patriarchy, displacement, discrimination, violence, genocide, unsafe work, and the denial of our fundamental rights. These are not individual failures, but consequences of systems that decide who gets safety, dignity, resources and power… and who is expected to simply “cope.” ✊🏽Therapy and individual care matter. But they cannot be the whole response to conditions that contr

⚖️ Earlier today, in an appalling step backwards for human rights and judicial independence, the South Bangkok Criminal Court ruled Bai’s months-long detention “lawful.” His extradition hearing is now scheduled for 25 January 2027. Calling Bai’s detention lawful does not make it just. Bai is not a foreign national caught in bureaucratic limbo. He is a recognised refugee and journalist whose only “offence” was exposing corruption and telling the truth. By keeping him behind ba

Earlier today, 9 October 2026, the South Bangkok Criminal Court upheld the continued detention of 56-year-old investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong, ruling it lawful. This marks a dangerous step backwards for human rights and judicial independence in Thailand. By affirming the "lawfulness" of Bai’s arbitrary deprivation of liberty, the Thai judiciary risks becoming an active instrument in Beijing’s expanding apparatus of transnational repression. Bai is not merely a foreign n

🌏 On 15 September, Manushya Foundation brought this question to the 8th UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum Asia-Pacific in Bangkok. Our session centred on the urgent need for feminist, Indigenous, and frontline leadership from Asia in shaping the proposed UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights. As international human rights lawyer and our Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit stressed: “Asia cannot remain on the margins of this process. We cannot simply wait for this t

Highlights from the only session on the UN BHR Treaty at the 8th UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum Asia-Pacific in Bangkok, held on 15 September 2026. BANGKOK, THAILAND | Across Asia, communities confronting corporate harm face an uphill battle for justice: costly proceedings, inaccessible evidence, and retaliation for defending their rights. Yet the rules meant to protect them are often negotiated far from their realities, with little power in their hands. What

🕯️“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ⚫ 50 years ago today, state forces and right-wing paramilitary groups violently attacked students and activists at Thammasat University for demanding a more democratic and just society. Unarmed students, workers, activists, and grassroots organisers were beaten, lynched, sexually violated, and killed. Their “crime” was refusing to accept a society where power belongs to elites rather than the people. 🕊️For f