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International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

Manushya Foundation

Nov 1, 2022

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

(ภาษาไทยด้านล่าง) 📺 On #InternationalDaytoEndImpunityforCrimesagainstJournalists, we are spotlighting the injustice faced by journalists who risk their lives to deliver us the truth! ⚠️ Amid the younger generation’s fight for democracy in Thailand, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Belarus, and many countries, a crackdown on independent media and voices critical of the governments have intensified. So have the attempts to silence the truths essential for change. 🚫 In 2021, 46 journalists

#วันสตรีชนบทสากล: มาสดุดีให้แก่ความกล้าหาญของสตรีเหล่านี้กันเถอะ!

Manushya Foundation

Oct 14, 2022

#วันสตรีชนบทสากล: มาสดุดีให้แก่ความกล้าหาญของสตรีเหล่านี้กันเถอะ!

🤍สุขสันต์ #วันสตรีชนบทสากล 👩🏽‍🦱👩🏻👱🏿‍♀️👩🏼‍🦳🧕🏾🧔🏼‍♀️ มาสดุดีให้แก่ความกล้าหาญของสตรีเหล่านี้กันเถอะ!✊🏻 🇺🇳 สหประชาชาติได้กำหนดให้วันที่ 15 ตุลาคมของทุกปี เป็น #วันสตรีชนบทสากล เพื่อเฉลิมฉลองให้แก่เหล่าบรรดาสตรีชนบทรวมถึง #สตรีชนเผ่าพื้นเมือง ผู้อาศัยอยู่ในพื้นที่ชนบท และเพื่อให้ประชาชนได้ตระหนักถึงการต่อสู้รวมถึงการมีส่วนร่วมของสตรีเหล่านี้ต่อความมุ่งมั่นในการพัฒนาชนบทและความเป็นอยู่ที่ดีของชุมชนของพวกเขา ถึงแม้ว่าในปัจจุบัน พวกเขาจะยังคงเผชิญต่ออุปสรรคในเรื่องก

#InternationalDayofRuralWomen: Let’s salute how brave these Thai Rural Women Are!

Manushya Foundation

Oct 14, 2022

#InternationalDayofRuralWomen: Let’s salute how brave these Thai Rural Women Are!

📍October 15th is marked as #InternationalDayofRuralWomen👩🏻🧔🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🦳🧕🏽👩🏽‍🦱👱🏿‍♀️, Let’s salute how brave these Thai Rural Women are! 🇺🇳 #InternationalDayofRuralWomen is dedicated to rural women, including indigenous women, living in rural places and to celebrate the strength and contributions of these women towards rural development and the community's well-being, despite the struggles and the discrimination based on their identity & gender. ⚠️ #GenderEquality

Manushya Foundation

Aug 25, 2022

Andrea Spakova: "People and the Planet must be put over profit!"

#CorporateAccountability ⚖️ Watch the intervention of our Advocacy and Campaign Associate Andrea Spakova at the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Minority Issues and help us spread the word to demand #PeopleOverProfit! 🗣 The Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Minority Issues was held on 14-15 June 2022, marking the 30th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious, and Linguistic Minorities. The forum focused on building stro

Manushya Foundation

Feb 21, 2022

#InternationalMotherLanguageDay 🗣️ Languages in Thailand: Are they all equal?

📍Today is International Mother Language Day! Let's remember that there is more than one language used in Thailand, approximately 71. They cannot be forgotten even if Central Thai is the most spoken one. Read on to know more! ⤵️ ➡️ Indeed, even though the Thai language varies in tones and vocabularies depending on the region: there are different Thai dialects. Along the borders, other languages like Lao or Karen are used. You can imagine the diversity of language classes ther

Khon Isaan: Voice of the marginalized community finally heard!

Manushya Foundation

Dec 22, 2021

Khon Isaan: Voice of the marginalized community finally heard!

#FightRacism #WhatsHappeningInThailand 🚨 Isaan is the most populous, yet the poorest region of Thailand. Its population has long been excluded from the majority society, left in poverty and criminalized simply for trying to earn a living. But in November 2021, their voices were finally heard! Read more ⤵️ 📍 People from Isaan, or Khon Isaan, face discrimination in their everyday lives. Under the guise of Thainess, they are portrayed as less educated, simple countryside peopl

The Migrant Community, including workers and LGBTIQ+ persons, still at the margins of Thai society!

Manushya Foundation

Dec 18, 2021

The Migrant Community, including workers and LGBTIQ+ persons, still at the margins of Thai society!

🧳 On International Migrants Day, 18 December, we take a look at #WhatsHappeningInThailand for the migrant community. Despite making up 10% of the country’s labour force, they find themselves vulnerable to human rights violations & are also one of the groups most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more 👇 🚨 Migrant workers face numerous barriers in registering themselves and accessing legal status in Thailand. Many prefer using irregular channels to enter Thailand, m

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Manushya Foundation

Nov 25, 2021

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

(English below) วันยุติความรุนแรงต่อสตรีสากล #WhatsHappeningInThailand ✊🏼 ในโอกาสที่วันที่ 25 พ.ย. เป็นวันยุติความรุนแรงต่อสตรีสากล มูลนิธิมานุษยะจึงขอร่วมส่งเสียงเรียกร้องให้มีการคุ้มครองและสนับสนุนสิทธิฯของสตรี ผ่านชุดภาพเกี่ยวกับสตรีผู้ตกเป็นเหยื่อขอความรุนแรงในชีวิตคู่เพื่อสร้างความตระหนักรู้ต่อปัญหาดังกล่าว!👇🏼 ⚠️ลองคิดดู.. หากคุณพบเจอความรุนแรงที่บ้าน ซึ่งเป็นที่ที่คุณควรรู้สึกปลอดภัยมากที่สุด แต่คุณกลับไม่เคยขอความช่วยเหลือเพราะครอบครัวของคุณ เพื่อนและเพื่อนบ้านของคุ

#IntersexDayOfRemembrance: Change society, not the bodies of intersex children!

Manushya Foundation

Nov 8, 2021

#IntersexDayOfRemembrance: Change society, not the bodies of intersex children!

🏳️‍🌈 Today, 8 November, marks Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as #IntersexDayofSolidarity to honour the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a 19th-Century intersex person who was forced into the public eye after doctors found her to be intersex and whose short and often unhappy life highlights the need for increased acceptance of intersex people. 💜 While Intersex Awareness Day focuses on the creation of awareness and visibility of intersex people in society, Intersex Sol

Manushya Foundation

Nov 5, 2021

Free Trade Agreements Serving Nobody but Businesses

#WhatsHappeningInThailand RCEP. TAFTA. CPTPP. Have you heard these glossy names before? All three of them are so-called "Free Trade Agreements" (FTAs) Thailand is or wants to be a part of. They are supposed to encourage international trade and investment and consequently improve the economic situation of the country. 🚨 But what is the reality and do such agreements actually benefit anyone except foreign investors? Read more below 👇🏼 🚫 FTAs aim to liberalize national eco

#Thailand Is Not the LGBTIQ+ Paradise We Think It Is!

Manushya Foundation

Nov 4, 2021

#Thailand Is Not the LGBTIQ+ Paradise We Think It Is!

#WhatsHappeningInThailand The struggles of LGBTIQ+ persons in Thailand are more than real. They face discrimination in many areas of their lives including recognition of their identity, education, career, their love lives, and even healthcare! 🗣 Share this with your network to spread the word about #WhatsHappeningInThailand! Even though Thailand hosts one of the largest LGBTIQ+ communities in Asia and is seen as the ‘LGBTIQ+ Paradise’, it still has a long way to go in terms

Manushya Foundation

Nov 3, 2021

Emilie Pradichit: "We elect Governments, not corporate actors!"

We fight for and advocate for True Democracies; Not Corporatocracies! #BindingTreaty 🚨 Have you followed the negotiations of the very first legally #BindingTreaty on Business and Human Rights? It is a critical document that will affect the lives of generations to come and the environment we all live in! Watch the intervention of our Founder and Executive Director Emilie Pradichit at the negotiations in Geneva and help us spread the word to #StopCorporateImpunity! 📣 Last we

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists: Bring the perpetrators to Justice!

Manushya Foundation

Nov 2, 2021

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists: Bring the perpetrators to Justice!

On the #InternationalDaytoEndImpunityforCrimesagainstJournalists, we stand by all journalists who risk their lives to tell us the truth and we call on the governments worldwide to investigate and bring to justice perpetrators of these appalling crimes! Help us spread this message! 🚨 Philippine radio journalist Virgilio “Vir” Maganes: shot dead six times by men on a motor scooter. 🚨 Mexican journalist María Elena Ferral: shot dead after years of receiving death threats. 🚨 2

Manushya Foundation

Oct 29, 2021

Legally #BindingTreaty: Let's put an end to corporate violations of human rights & the environment!

"After seven years on this process, we ask the question - if not now, when? Now is the time to act. Human rights and the environment cannot wait any longer and we cannot allow corporate capture of our government decision-making processes to continue delaying the realization of our demands." Collective Statement of ESCR-Net on legally #BindingTreaty on Business and Human Rights #StopCorporateImpunity It has been 7 years since the start of negotiations on the legally #BindingT

Manushya Foundation

Oct 27, 2021

COVID-19 puts Migrant workers & their children under Inhumane Conditions in Thailand!

#WhatsHappeningInThailand Migrant Workers in Thailand have consistently been brushed with a different eye: they generally don't have free access to employment, their families and themselves are not fully legally protected by Thai law, and they are also one of the first groups to suffer disproportionately from the COVID-19 outbreak. Learn more about our factsheet on #Migrants in Thailand and help us tell the truth to the world! 👇🏼 ⚠️ Complex procedures and financial strain p

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