Governments across Southeast Asia are using cybersecurity as cover to surveil critics, police borders, and protect the interests of those in power. 🇺🇳 The UN Cybercrime Treaty expands state-to-state cooperation, lowers evidentiary standards, and defines ‘cybercrime’ so broadly that activists, journalists, and organisers fall within reach. Tech companies are part of the problem too, as they profit from our data and then hand it to the governments pursuing us. The people who

#StopTransnationalRepression ✊ On 20 June, Manushya Foundation joined Na Projects at Bangkok 1899 for Living, Waiting, and Hoping | Refugees Among Us: Stories, Challenges, and Hope in Thailand to honour World Refugee Day. We’re immensely grateful to hear directly from refugees, raise awareness on transnational repression, share food & stories, and connect with allies including Asylum Access Thailand, Sati Foundation, Parami University, and Hear & Found. 🤝 Thailand is home to

On 20 June, we marked World Refugee Day, a moment for the world to pause and truly listen to the voices of those forced to flee their homeland. This year, we use this platform to uplift the voices of Lao political refugees, and to recount the stories of activists in exile who face unimaginable consequences simply for speaking out. They are subject to threats, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, and assassinations. These injustices happen not only inside Laos, but across bo

Manushya Foundation stands in solidarity with our feminist sisters at the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network (RMCN) against the coordinated hate speech targeting Rohingya refugees and women human rights defenders. Over the last few days, hundreds of racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic comments flooded our social media posts on our solidarity with the Rohingya refugees and survivors. 👉 Check the photos to see the hate narratives we documented, and why we refuse to st

#StopDigitalDictatorship! ✊ Repression in our region does not work alone. It works through the military-BigTech industrial complex’s control over the spaces where we speak and organise. 🇺🇳 This is Manushya Foundation's submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age. 🌏 Across Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the same machinery appears in different uniforms, such as vague cyber law

#NoToAgeGating! 🙅🏽‍♀️ When states say they want to “protect children” by banning them online, which children do they mean? 𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧: 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙧! 🙃 Freedom has never been granted from above. It has been seized, again and again, by the people most determined to be free, and most often by the young. In Manushya Foundation's submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, “𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯:

Salamat, #DRAPAC2026! From 8-10 June, Manushya joined fellow digital rights activists in Manila to push back against techno-colonialism and digital authoritarianism. At the session "Inside the Black Box: Mappining Civil Society Engagement with Big Tech on Content Moderation," hosted by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), our Founder & Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, drew from Manushya Foundation's s extensive work in grassroots-led platfor

Join us for 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘅: 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, a co-learning workshop organised by the South East Asia Collaborative Policy Network (SEA CPN), where Manushya Foundation is a proud member. 💻 🗓️ Wednesday, 10 June 2026 ⏰ 09:00-11:50 AM UTC+8 (Manila time) 📍 Room 403, University of the Philippines, BGC What happens when content moderation system

Environmental justice without Indigenous justice is not justice at all. ✊ Despite having defended the environment for generations, Indigenous communities continue to face dispossession, false climate solutions, SLAPPs, and violence, while states and corporations move forward with impunity. Manushya’s two new UN submissions expose how Indigenous Peoples’ rights are being violated in Laos and Thailand in the name of profit, “development,” and even “conservation.” Their demand i

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

Happy Pride to the queer defenders who defy the status quo by speaking up for human rights and just by being themselves. For us at Manushya Foundation, Pride is both personal and political. We are proudly represented by LGBTIQ+ leaders, defenders, and team members with lived experiences who know that visibility is not a trend. It is courage, survival, and power. 📢 Amid escalating attacks against LGBTIQ+ communities, from censorship and hate speech to public humiliation, viol

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

Thailand and Vietnam's leaders are turning diplomacy into a crackdown on activists. Today, 28 May, during To Lam’s official visit to Thailand, both leaders in a joint statement committed that neither country would allow its territory to be used for political activities against the other. They also pledged to strengthen extradition cooperation to suppress transnational dissent. In a region where authoritarian governments already hunt critics across borders, this is a dangerous

A victory for freedom of expression in Thailand! 🇹🇭 Today, the Thai Criminal Court dismissed the royal defamation and cybercrime charges against Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, founder of the progressive Future Forward movement and a key figure in Thailand’s pro-democracy struggle. The case came from his 2021 livestream criticizing the government’s mishandling of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and its unfair favouring of Siam Bioscience, a company owned by King Maha ​Vajiralon

Bopha* is a woman environmental activist from Southeast Asia. She faced imprisonment for her activism and fled her country to survive. But the harassment only followed her in digital spaces. 👁️ As Bopha describes it, "Transnational Repression is a government tactic to shut down the voices of those who look for social justice.” 🚨 Repression continues online through digital threats or attacks: threatening messages, fake accounts, coordinated harassment, sexualised abuse, disi