Discover how #JusticeForPhichit showed the region what uncompromising movement lawyering can do. ✊ Catch our Founder & Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, at Macquarie University’s B&HR Access to Justice Lab webinar, ‘𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘪 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴’ 🗓️ Thursday

In the name of attracting investors, the Land Bridge and draft SEC Act will carve up Southern Thailand for deep-sea ports, railways, and motorways. While communities in Ranong, Chumphon, and across the South are left to carry the real cost, without meaningful participation in decisions over their own lives and lands. Land seized. Seas disrupted. Livelihoods destroyed. Biodiversity threatened. Communities sidelined. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝙏

Laws drafted about communities, without communities, will never deliver justice for communities. ✊ At the ICAR Annual Meeting 2026, our Founder & Executive Director Emilie Palamy Pradichit brought one urgent message to this global gathering of corporate accountability leaders when it comes to #mHERDD laws: ⚖️ 𝗗𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘅-𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁...

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

This is what solidarity looks like! From Northeastern Thailand to its Central region, frontline communities come together to shift power: away from mining corporations that extract and contaminate water and land, and back to the people forced to live the harms. For over 20 years, the Phichit Villagers have fought for justice and remedy. On 24 March, they will finally hear the verdict. 📍 Join us LIVE on Manushya’s Facebook & Instagram, 24 March 8:15 AM as we report straight f

Since the Chatree Gold Mine (largest gold mine in Thailand) opened in 2001, the Phichit villagers have suffered: 💧water contamination ⛑️ lifelong damages to their health 🌾 destruction of livelihoods Now after 20+ years of delay, they are seeking what they are owed. Join us on 24 March, 9:00 AM at the Ratchada Civil Court in Bangkok and support the Phichit Villagers in demanding: JUSTICE. ACCOUNTABILITY. REMEDY. NOW! 🔗 Sign the solidarity statement and learn more: bit.ly/St

มูลนิธิมานุษยะ ชวนจับตา “นัดฟังคำพิพากษา” คดีชาวบ้านพิจิตรฟ้องเหมืองทองอัครา ที่ศาลแพ่งรัชดา กรุงเทพ ฯ วันที่ 4 มีนาคม 2569 เวลา 9:00 น. นับตั้งแต่ปี 2544 เหมืองทองที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในไทย "เหมืองทองอัครา" มาเปิดกิจการ ชีวิตของชาวพิจิตรต้องอยู่กับน้ำที่ปนเปื้อน ปัญหาสุขภาพ วิถีชีวิตและอาชีพทำนาและทำไร่ที่เปลี่ยนไป กว่า 25 ปีที่การเยียวยาถูกเพิกเฉย ถึงเวลาแล้วที่ชาวบ้านต้องได้รับความเป็นธรรม! 🔗 ร่วมลงชื่อแถลงการณ์จุดยืนร่วมกับคนพิจิตร ได้ที่แบบฟอร์มนี้ bit.ly/StandWithPhichit ..

Rasa was born on 2001, the same year Thailand’s largest gold mine was opened in her home province of Phichit. For 25 years, she watched as the environment and health of people in her hometown deteriorated. Today, she’s a movement lawyer with Manushya Foundation, standing alongside her community in the fight for justice and remedy after years of injustice. From daughter of Phichit to its defender ✊🏽 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙪𝙥 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙑𝙞�

Thai translation available below For nearly 10 years, over 300 villagers from Phichit have fought for justice and sought remedy over serious environmental and health harms linked to the Chatree Gold Mine, the largest gold mine in Thailand, operated by Akara Resources and owned by Australia-based Kingsgate. This coming 24 March, the court will finally decide. This historic ruling could shape the future of corporate accountability and climate justice in Thailand. Here’s how you

English Translation available below เมื่อวันที่ 18 กุมภาพันธ์ รัฐบาลไทยได้ประกาศอย่างเป็นทางการว่า ข้อพิพาททางกฎหมายที่ยืดเยื้อมานานกับบริษัทเหมืองแร่จากออสเตรเลียบริษัทคิงส์เกตได้สิ้นสุดลงแล้ว แต่ ! ผู้ชนะมีเพียงรัฐบาลไทยและ คิงส์เกต เท่านั้น ในขณะที่รัฐบาลไทยเฉลิมฉลอง “ความร่วมมือครั้งใหม่” และผลกำไรในอนาคตชุมชนที่ได้รับผลกระทบจากเหมืองทองคำชาตรี อย่างชาวบ้านพิจิตร ยังคงต้องเผชิญกับผลกระทบต่อไป 💔 น้ำปนเปื้อน 💔 ความกังวลด้านสุขภาพ 💔 หลายปีที่ไร้การเยียวยา นี่ไม่ใช่ความย

For years, human rights defenders (HRDs) and communities in Laos have been silenced for speaking truth to power through intimidation, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and violence. Their struggles were ignored, denied, or deliberately erased. Today, many Lao HRDs continue this struggle from exile , facing transnational repression through surveillance, threats, intimidation of family members, and cross-border attacks aimed at silencing their advocacy. These patte

💡 Did you know every time you leave a light on, someone living along the Mekong River could be paying the price? This International Day of Clean Energy ⚡️, we’re standing with Martha (@mamean_jc) from Hug Mekong Youth, a youth and women-led environmentalist movement in Isaan. Martha shared this powerful testimony during our recent UPR Capacity and Movement-Building Workshop for Northeastern Thailand. The so-called “development” projects along the Mekong River basin have disp

On 19 December 2025, Manushya’s human rights lawyers stood together with the courageous women leaders from Phichit villages in a court-led mediation against Akara Resources, operator of the Chatree Gold Mine. The women Phichit villagers were clear: ➡️ they demand meaningful remedy for the decades-long harm brought by Chatree Gold Mine to villagers’ health and the environment ➡️ they insist on a judicial ruling rather than a settlement where Akara can escape accountability Med

2026 opens with the same crises, just repackaged. 🏭 Imperialist resource grabs under the guise of “liberating oppressed nations” 💰 Corporations investing millions in PR to rebrand their harm as “green” and “community-centred” 🚨 Transnational repression and digital dictatorship tightening quietly across borders 🌏 Displacement of native populations through genocide and crimes against humanity based on false entitlement over land This year, as Decolonial & Intersectional Fem

For over 20 years, Phichit and Phetchabun villagers have lived with illness, contaminated water, and the daily fear of what the mine has done to their land and bodies. Since the mine reopened in 2023, the company has moved full speed ahead: boosting production, securing tax breaks, and turning record profits. At the same time, they launched glossy CSR projects and PR campaigns to paint themselves as “responsible”, while past harms faced by communities have remained unsolved.