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

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

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