📅 18 March 2025🕗 5:30 - 7:00 PM📍 SEA Junction, 4th Floor, BACC The abrupt suspension and termination of USAID-funded projects has sent shockwaves across Southeast Asia, disrupting critical aid programs and leaving civil society organizations and local communities struggling to fill the gaps. As funding freezes, human rights and development work across the region face unprecedented challenges—but how do we move forward? 🎙 Speakers include: 🔹 John Luke Chua, Moderator 🔹

📅 18 March 2025 🕗 5:30 - 7:00 PM 📍 SEA Junction, 4th Floor, BACC The abrupt suspension and termination of USAID-funded projects has sent shockwaves across Southeast Asia, disrupting critical aid programs and leaving civil society organizations and local communities struggling to fill the gaps. As funding freezes, human rights and development work across the region face unprecedented challenges—but how do we move forward? 🎙 Speakers include: 🔹 Lia Sciortino Sumaryono, SEA

" This is really a matter of life or death ." — Emilie Palamy Pradichit , Founder & Executive Director, Manushya Foundation The abrupt...

As we mark World Day of Social Justice , we must confront the devastating consequences of the recent #USAID funding cuts. These cuts are...

🚨 Manushya’s Founder, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, spoke with Frank Langfitt for NPR to expose how Trump & Musk’s USAID funding freeze is endangering lives! 💬 " We are well aware that Trump and Musk are trying to destroy USAID. We are not corrupt, we are actually working to save lives." — Emilie Palamy Pradichit, Founder & ED of Manushya Foundation. ⚠️ What’s happening? Trump’s executive order has halted nearly all U.S. government support for democracy, human rights, and pres

🥶 It goes without saying that President Donald Trump’s 2025 Foreign Aid Funding Freeze and Stop Work Order have had a deeply destabilizing effect on our community. As part of our weekend series on collective care, we reflect on how systemic oppression, as demonstrated through recent events, have affected the collective wellbeing of… ...our team, ...the grassroots and local organizing community, ...our Southeast Asian relatives, and ...the Global Majority collective... ..and

The Trump administration’s foreign aid cut has slashed 75% of Manushya’s funding overnight. Without urgent intervention, democracy...

🚨 Manushya’s Founder, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, spoke to Al Jazeera to expose the devastating human impact of USAID’s funding cuts. Manushya Foundation is among the hardest hit! With USAID funding stripped away, activists fighting for democracy, climate justice, and equality are now in grave danger. 📢 “We have 35 activists and their families facing transnational repression relying on our rapid response fund since January.” — Emilie Pradichit, Founder & Executive Director of