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#IndigenousRightsAreHumanRights ๐ฑ For Indigenous communities in Thailand, discrimination begins with not being formally recognized under Thai law.
Today, on the International Day of the Worldโs Indigenous Women and Girls, weโre amplifying the voices of Indigenous women leaders from Southern Thailand who are fighting for their Land. โ Naowanit Chaemphit, Moken community โ Saluay Hanthale, Ulak Lwoi Womenโs Association for Development When communities are not recognized, the consequences are real: ๐ชช Statelessness ๐๏ธ Land grabbing driven by profit ๐ Cultural exploitation โ Exclusion from education, healthcare, and poli

Manushya Foundation
4 days ago


#LoveWins! ๐ Indeed, queer liberation, love, and genuine solidarity will always triumph over hate and systems of oppression โ
Join us in spreading the power of love and inclusion through this Limited Edition T-shirt collection from our courageous ally, Young Pride Foundation. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Every purchase directly powers Young Pride, from youth ideation workshops and LGBTQIAN+ rights advocacy to community projects that champion an inclusive society for all. ๐ Order here today: https://bit.ly/ypfshirt #WeAreManushyan โพ๏ธ Equal Human Beings #QueerLiberation #LGBTRightsAreHumanRights #PrideIsAProtest

Manushya Foundation
6 days ago


๐จ Digital Rights Watch! Malaysiaโs new Cybercrime Bill will expand transnational repression
On 20 July, Malaysiaโs Dewan Negara (Senate) passed a cybercrime law that will expand transnational repression. Read through below to see what Malaysiaโs borderless cybercrime machinery could unleash. Every expansion of police power arrives wearing the language of safety, and this one is no exception. Malaysia's Cybercrimes Act reaches anyone, anywhere, if the data touched a Malaysian system or if the person affected is Malaysian. Malaysia explicitly cited meeting its obligat

Manushya Foundation
7 days ago


Join us on 15 September for the only #UNRBHR2026 session dedicated to the UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights:
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐จ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐จ๐ก ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ ๐
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 โบ 17:00-18:00 ICT๐ Conference Room 2, UN Conference Centre, Bangkok & online Across Asia, corporate-related human rights and environmental harms continue to persist. Yet, communities who b

Manushya Foundation
Sep 2


#StopTransnationalRepression โ Exile wasnโt enough to silence this Cambodian Woman activist, so they went after her family insteadโฆ
Chhin Chou stood up against land grabbing and demanded fair livelihoods for farmers in her hometown in Cambodia. ๐ฐ๐ญ For her courage, she was threatened, hunted, and forced into exile. But the repression didn't stop when she reached Thailand or Canada. Authorities continued to harass and threaten her parents back home to force her into silence. Despite this all, Chhin Chou refuses to be silent. She continues to speak truth to power for her people. ๐ Swipe through to learn

Manushya Foundation
Aug 31


International Day of the Disappeared: Where is Sombath, Somchai, and Od? Why do Laos and Thailand still refuse to answer?
๐ Read through the photos to remember the disappeared and understand how enforced disappearance is weaponised to silence dissent, at home and across borders. #InternationalDayOfTheDisappeared ๐จ ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป. Authoritarian states use it as a weapon to silence activists and condemn their families to years, even decades, of uncertainty amounting to psychological torture. Borders offer no sanctuary. ๐โ Enforced

Manushya Foundation
Aug 30


๐จ HUMAN RIGHTS ALERT: THAILAND HAS OPENED A FASTER PATHWAY TO TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION!
We warned the Thai Government. It chose to proceed anyway. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐! On 26 August 2026, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed the Prime Ministerโs Office Regulation on Deportation B.E. 2569. It was published in the Royal Gazette on 27 August and entered into force today, 28 August 2026. The Regulation accelerates procedures for removi

Manushya Foundation
Aug 28


#AllEyesOnIndonesia ๐ฎ๐ฉ 5 reasons Indonesians are taking to the streets again, and why the world must pay attention.
One year after a youth- and worker-led uprising shook the country, injustice remains unresolved. The people refuse to stay silent. Today, hundreds of people from Pati, Central Java are taking their demands to the streets, joined by workers, grassroots movements and civil society groups across Indonesia. Bear witness to their resistance! ๐ Explore the videos to understand more about these demands and why they need our global attention NOW. We stand in solidarity with our Indo

Manushya Foundation
Aug 27


#PeoplePower โ Three days, two UN human rights processes, and one people-led fight for accountability.
Weโre still not over our UPR IV & ICCPR Strategic Advocacy Workshop in Bangkok! ๐น๐ญ On our final day, we turned to another avenue for holding the Thai government accountable: Thailandโs review under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by the UN Human Rights Committee. ๐บ๐ณ Over fifty human rights defenders began drafting community-led shadow reports to influence Thailandโs upcoming List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR). The goal is to ensure

Manushya Foundation
Aug 26


#FreeRohingya: The dreams and future of Rohingya children are being killed in refugee camps
For Rohingya children born in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, statelessness is the only reality they have ever known. โ On this 9th #RohingyaGenocideRemembranceDay, genocide survivor and Executive Director of the Rohingya Maรฌyafuรฌnor Collaborative Network, Yasmin Ullah, shares what life on the ground truly looks like: shrinking rations, no access to formal education, and a generation stripped of their right to dream. Rohingya children deserve a future beyond basic s

Manushya Foundation
Aug 25


9th Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day ๐ฏ๏ธ Arakan is still there. So are we.
Nine years after the Rohingya genocide, survivors remain in exile while the junta chief who commanded the genocidal campaign received red carpet welcomes. We share an excerpt from Rohingya genocide survivor and feminist activist Yasmin Ullahโs powerful op-ed. After seeing Arakan across the Naf River for the first time in her adult life, Yasmin, also the Executive Director of Rohingya Maรฌyafuรฌnor Collaborative Network, writes of a homeland made painfully real and a world norma

Manushya Foundation
Aug 25


To age gate is to protect the very machinery of profit: Manushya at the Center for Organized Hate's webinar, "Rethinking Child Safety Online in Southeast Asia"
Are we truly protecting children online if we do not confront the systems that profit off of their harm? #NoToAgeGating "The isolation [that our younger generation is facing] did not appear from nowhere. It is produced by the same economic order that hollowed out public education. Capitalism offered this generation debt and precarity amidst a global ecological collapse instead of a future. [Capitalism] has nothing to give an alienated teenager except the attention economy's

Manushya Foundation
Aug 24


Is slavery really abolished? The 13th Amendment Loophole
#RememberSlavery โ๏ธ On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we reflect on how the United Statesโ 13th Amendmentโs loophole perpetuates a legacy of exploitation. The legal exception embedded in the 13th Amendment allows slavery to persist under the guise of "punishment for crime," fueling the prison-industrial complex and disproportionately targeting Black and Brown communities. ๐ From convict leasing in the post-Civil War South to t

Manushya Foundation
Aug 23


Why Patani's struggle for independence in Thailand's Deep South is about more than religion
Understanding violence, militarisation, and the struggle for self-determination #FreePatani โ On this International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, we honour those whose lives have been altered by conflict in Thailandโs Deep South. For over two decades, the region has endured protracted violence and militarisation, a burden borne heavily by local communities and women sustaining life amid crisis. But reducing Patani to a narrativ

Manushya Foundation
Aug 22


Being a decolonial and intersectional feminist? Always super chic ๐ โ๐ฅ
At Manushya, we walk the talk with our values. We unapologetically confront systems of domination persisting across Southeast Asia โ whether thatโs digital dictatorship, transnational repression, SLAPPs, corporate greed, or colonialism and extractivism in the human rights sector. Want to dismantle systems of oppression too? Follow us at @manushyafoundation (add this only for IG) for more fierce feminist content! #WeAreManushyan โพ๏ธ Equal Human Beings

Manushya Foundation
Aug 21
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