Happy Weekend! 🩷 Ease into the weekend with these feminist self-care ideas from our recent UPR Submissions Workshop in Bangkok: 🪷 Siamese fortune sticks (เซียมซี) for reflection and grounding 🤲 Traditional folk massage using local wooden tools 🎨 Mandala colouring for rest and stillness 🎶 Kalimba (thumb piano) playing to slow things down 💅 Nail painting and bead-making (small joys, big care) 🌱 Sharing our worries, hopes, and dreams through our collective care tree Wellb

On this International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace 🕊️, we’re reminded that meaningful global cooperation must shift power and be rooted in justice, equity, and accountability.  🌸 We’re incredibly proud that next week, our Founder and Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, will moderate a powerful session at Women Deliver 2026 in Narrm (Melbourne). Drawing from her deep experience in grassroots-led international accountability, Emilie will help hold s

Dr Jean Linis-Dinco, Digital Rights Advisor at Manushya Foundation, unpacks why encryption is not just a technical abstraction, but a fragile shield for the survival and resistance of the oppressed. A quick search of the history of encryption or cryptography will give you quite a predictable narrative on how it was deemed useful during wartimes, either to protect information of intelligence agencies or shield classified communications between generals and diplomats. All these

A system that exploits people will exploit the planet. Across Thailand, women-led communities who have stewarded land and water for generations are being pushed out, silenced, and harmed. This is what patriarchal and extractive systems do: they treat both people and the planet as disposable in the name of profit, control, so-called “development”, and false climate solutions. From: Phichit villagers facing water contamination, air pollution, and health impacts from gold mining

📱 Our digital spaces are becoming the new frontline of transnational repression. The UN should not be giving it legal cover. Join us ONLINE at RightsCon 2026, as Manushya Foundation hosts “𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙉 𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖”.  A bold conversation on how the language of “cybersecurity” is increasingly being used to justify surveillance, censorship, and cro

As Thailand’s new year water holidays come up, this is a reminder that traditional “fun” is never a valid excuse to bypass consent or violate bodily autonomy. Whether it’s unwanted splashing, forced powder-smearing, or sexual harassment, we must call it what it is: a violation of boundaries and human rights. As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we urge everyone to center consent and dignity this Songkran and every other day. The water stops where someone’s boundaries b

The workshop focused on strengthening what makes advocacy powerful: credibility, clarity, and grounded recommendations. From Indigenous women and LGBTQIA+ activists to defenders working on reproductive rights, environment, land, migrant and labour rights, peacebuilding, and civic space, activists from all across Thailand came together to sharpen their submissions and strengthen each other’s work. In the coming week, frontline communities, alongside us at Manushya Foundation,

“This feels like a reunion of activists from all over Thailand!” 💬 shares one of the defenders who joined Manushya's UPR Submissions workshop in Bangkok. Day 1 of “Turning Collective Voices into Evidence-Based Advocacy: Finalizing Thailand’s UPR IV Civil Society Submissions” brought together 67 grassroots activists from across Thailand, united by one goal: to bring their communities’ voices to the global stage 🌏 From LGBTQIA+ and abortion rights advocates to Indigenous wome

Today, as we honor the International Transgender Day of Visibility , let us move towards understanding, acceptance, and unwavering support for our trans and non-binary queerblings. Within every facet of society, our Queerblings are becoming increasingly more visible, but visibility without adequate protection, recognition and understanding can leave them vulnerable to further discrimination and harm. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧ 📢 Here are some ways to show solidarity and allyship: ✅ Edu

Step aside “experts”, the next step towards a people-led UPR movement is here. And it’s being led by those actually on the ground. Day 1 of “Turning Collective Voices into Evidence-Based Advocacy: Finalizing Thailand’s UPR IV Civil Society Submissions” brought together 67 grassroots activists from across Thailand, united by one goal: to bring their communities’ voices to the global stage 🌏 As the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights calls for civil

At Manushya Foundation, we reaffirm our stance on age-gating as an anti-poor policy that fails to address the material, root conditions of young people's suffering. Following   Australia's social media ban  late last year, Indonesia has become the first Southeast Asian country  to take a drastic and sweeping step, thrusting itself into a growing global battle over who controls what children see, hear and consume online. Starting 28th March, under a banner of ‘ digital emer

มาดูกันว่า "พลังของการรวมตัว” สามารถสร้างอะไรได้บ้าง นี่คือภาพช่วงเวลาสำคัญจากวันที่ 24 มีนาคมที่ผ่านมา วันที่ศาลแพ่งรัชดามีคำพิพากษาให้ชาวบ้านเป็นฝ่ายชนะคดีและชี้ว่าผู้ประกอบการเหมืองทองคำรายใหญ่ที่สุดของประเทศไทยต้องรับผิดชอบต่อความเสียหายที่เกิดขึ้นกับที่ดิน แหล่งน้ำ และสุขภาพของชาวบ้านที่ได้รับผลกระทบ   ชาวบ้านเกือบ 50 คน เดินทางกว่า 6 ชั่วโมงจากจังหวัดพิจิตรและเพชรบูรณ์ เพื่อมาร่วมรับฟังคำตัดสินครั้งประวัติศาสตร์นี้ บางคนที่ร่วมต่อสู้กันมาอย่างคุณลุงมานิจ ลำพะสอน และคุณล

Take a look at what collective power makes possible. Here are moments from 24 March, when the Ratchada Civil Court ruled in favour of the villagers, holding Thailand’s largest gold mine operator accountable for harms to people’s land, water, and bodies. Close to 50 villagers travelled over six hours from Phichit and Phetchabun provinces to witness this long-awaited verdict. Some who fought for this moment, like P’Manit and P’Lot, are no longer with us. Since 2019, when Manush

25 March is internationally recognised as the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This day is known officially by the UN as the ‘International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.’ We choose to use and emphasise the terms “enslaved”  and “enslavement,”  as part of ongoing Black-led efforts to decolonise language. The terms “slave” and “slavery” reduce people to identities impo

Thai court orders compensation and environmental rehabilitation in country’s first environmental class action lawsuit, setting a major precedent for corporate accountability in Thailand. BANGKOK, THAILAND | 24 March 2026 – After a decade-long wait, villagers from Phichit and Phetchabun provinces have secured a landmark victory. On 24 March, Thailand’s Ratchada Civil Court ordered Akara Resources to compensate nearly 400 community members for harms caused by its mining operati