Today, Thailand rolled out the red carpet for Min Aung Hlaing, architect of Myanmar’s 2021 coup and ICC-wanted war criminal, who seeks international legitimacy for his “presidency” following military-engineered sham elections in April. ⚠️ While millions in Myanmar are bombed, jailed, and driven from their homes under Min Aung Hlaing’s regime, Thailand rewards their oppressor with official honours and business forums. Even worse, Thai authorities are actively colluding in tran

🌏 On 26 May 2026, Manushya Foundation convened a closed-door regional expert meeting “Closing the Protection Gap for Human Rights Defenders in Southeast Asia: Regional Expert Meeting to Address Transnational Repression” in Bangkok, Thailand. We brought together 54 human rights defenders, survivor-advocates, frontline responders, UN actors, diplomats, and civil society allies with one urgent objective: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

We’re looking for two bold, emerging feminist communicators to join Manushya Foundation as Communications Fellows! We have two openings: ✍🏽 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄: for an emerging journalist or activist-campaigner with a compelling pen and strong political voice. 📱 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄: for a creative social media storyteller who understands Thai audiences, online culture, and short-form video. This six-mo

This year’s UN theme, “Trapped Behind the Scam,” asks the world to look at the people forced into online fraud. But we must also ask: what trapped them there, and who keeps profiting? Across Southeast Asia, trafficking networks weaponise marginalised communities’ need for dignified work. From Thailand serving as a key transit route 🇹🇭 to Laos’s Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone 🇱🇦 becoming a hub for forced criminality, punitive borders and neoliberal economic policies

The second day of our workshop, "From Evidence to Action: Strategic Advocacy for the UPR IV & ICCPR Reviews of Thailand", was all about shifting power. We moved from drafting factsheets to gearing up frontline human rights defenders to engage directly with diplomats. Best Chitsanupong Nithiwana, Founder of Young Pride Foundation and trans woman human rights defender, put it best about activists coming together from across Thailand: “For too long, access to diplomats has been

As the next step in our journey towards Thailand’s UPR IV this November, we gathered over 50 human rights defenders from across the country on 21 July for Day 1 of "From Evidence to Action: Strategic Advocacy for the UPR IV & ICCPR Reviews of Thailand". 🇹🇭 We built a #PeopleLedUPRMovement. We submitted the evidence. Now, it’s time to make the UN listen. Together, we are turning local evidence, lived realities, and community demands into sharp advocacy factsheets for high-le

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” – Nelson Mandela, 1997 On this #MandelaDay, we honor Madiba not only as a symbol of resistance and reconciliation but as a fierce advocate for justice everywhere. 📢 From South Africa to Palestine, the struggle continues. Apartheid cannot be justified. Colonial violence cannot be ignored. Silence is complicity. 💚 In the spirit of Mandela’s legacy, we raise our voices: 🇵🇸🍉Free Palest

We just submitted comments on the UN's draft General Comment No. 38 on Article 22 of ICCPR (Right to Freedom of Association) This freedom was never a gift handed down by benevolent states. If anything, it was won in the streets, with the blood and sweat of workers who were fighting for equal treatment and decent wages. 🇺🇳 We submitted comments on the UN's draft General Comment No. 38 on Article 22 of ICCPR (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights). Our message

Meta rolled out Muse Image, one of its features allows strangers to generate images from people's public Instagram photos by simply @-mentioning their public Instagram accounts, with the burden placed on the user to opt out. Meta backed down on 10 July, but only on this one specific feature as a form of PR damage control whilst Muse Image itself is still rolling out and is very much alive across Meta AI. Meta did not indicate whether it will be reintroduced again in the futur

To exist is to resist! Disability Justice IS Feminist Justice. 📣 Disability rights organiser and artist Patricia Berne reminds us, "We cannot comprehend ableism without grasping its interrelations with heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism." 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 through trauma, injury, and denial of ca

Across Southeast Asia, governments are sounding the alarm over declining birth rates and an impending “demographic crisis”. But let’s not pretend the crisis is that young people are having fewer children. Just look at the world they’ve inherited: climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, unpaid care burdens, and deepening inequality. ⚠️ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 �

We respond to the preliminary report of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence. To say this report was a disappointment is an understatement. It gathers damning evidence that AI capital is concentrated in the hands of tech corporations, whilst vulnerable users are harmed by business models built to extract attention, labour, data and natural resources. But instead of confronting ownership and Big Tech power, the report retreats into th

On 11 June 2026, the Court of Appeal ruled that ISOC (Internal Security Operations Command) is liable for a smear campaign that targeted human rights defenders Angkhana Neelapaijit and Anchana Heemmina for years. It found ISOC had the authority to manage the website where the false content was published, and ordered it to pay 120,000 baht to Angkhana and 90,000 baht to Anchana, plus removal of the offending content. ISOC was ordered to pay compensation to both women and remov

On 6 July, peaceful protesters were met with police violence in Chiang Mai, as they called out toxic run-off from Chinese-backed mining operations in Myanmar. Members of the People's Network for the Protection of the Kok, Sai, Ruak, and Mekong Rivers gathered to deliver a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, demanding accountability for transboundary pollution destroying Northern Thailand’s rivers and the livelihoods of more than 70,000 households. But before they could re

On World Rural Development Day, we stand with the Sab Wai Villagers, Isaan forest-dependent communities from Chaiyaphum who have lived, farmed, and cared for the forest since the 1970s, long before their lands were declared part of Sai Thong National Park. A “green” policy that evicts rural communities and forest guardians is NOT development. It’s a false climate solution 🙅🏽‍♀️ 🇹🇭🌳 Under Thailand's Forest Reclamation Policy, 14 villagers, including nine Isaan women, were