The Phichit villagers faced toxic contamination, corporate intimidation and a decade-long legal battle against the country’s largest gold mine. They refused to back down. And they won. 🌾 Phichit women cared for the sick, defended their livelihoods, gathered evidence and organised their communities to confront the harms of the Chatree Gold Mine. Even as villagers faced intimidation and lawsuits designed to silence them, they kept demanding accountability. ⚖️ On 24 March 2026,

📍 53 years ago today, the 14 October 1973 Uprising took place, which remains one of the most important events in modern Thai history. A major victory for the people, the protests resulted in the end of Thanom Kittikachorn’s military dictatorship. The significance of the event is further amplified by the university-student leaders' success in unifying the entire country for a common goal. ✊🏽 Besides the victory, let's also not forget that, on that day, while being ordered to

Years of governmental neglect and profit-driven orientation in urban planning, disguised as development, have submerged Bangkok and Central Thailand under weeks of severe flooding. 🗣️Continuous flooding in the region is accelerated by decades of filling in natural water channels (khlongs) for real estate, heavy groundwater extraction by industrial plants and municipal flood defenses that protect financial districts over working-class neighborhoods. 🌏Across Southeast Asia

⚖️ Our wellbeing is shaped by the systems we are forced to survive in: poverty and precarity, racism, patriarchy, displacement, discrimination, violence, genocide, unsafe work, and the denial of our fundamental rights. These are not individual failures, but consequences of systems that decide who gets safety, dignity, resources and power… and who is expected to simply “cope.” ✊🏽Therapy and individual care matter. But they cannot be the whole response to conditions that contr

⚖️ Earlier today, in an appalling step backwards for human rights and judicial independence, the South Bangkok Criminal Court ruled Bai’s months-long detention “lawful.” His extradition hearing is now scheduled for 25 January 2027. Calling Bai’s detention lawful does not make it just. Bai is not a foreign national caught in bureaucratic limbo. He is a recognised refugee and journalist whose only “offence” was exposing corruption and telling the truth. By keeping him behind ba

Earlier today, 9 October 2026, the South Bangkok Criminal Court upheld the continued detention of 56-year-old investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong, ruling it lawful. This marks a dangerous step backwards for human rights and judicial independence in Thailand. By affirming the "lawfulness" of Bai’s arbitrary deprivation of liberty, the Thai judiciary risks becoming an active instrument in Beijing’s expanding apparatus of transnational repression. Bai is not merely a foreign n

🌏 On 15 September, Manushya Foundation brought this question to the 8th UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum Asia-Pacific in Bangkok. Our session centred on the urgent need for feminist, Indigenous, and frontline leadership from Asia in shaping the proposed UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights. As international human rights lawyer and our Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit stressed: “Asia cannot remain on the margins of this process. We cannot simply wait for this t

🕯️“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ⚫ 50 years ago today, state forces and right-wing paramilitary groups violently attacked students and activists at Thammasat University for demanding a more democratic and just society. Unarmed students, workers, activists, and grassroots organisers were beaten, lynched, sexually violated, and killed. Their “crime” was refusing to accept a society where power belongs to elites rather than the people. 🕊️For f

On 24 September 2026, Manushya Foundation’s Digital Rights Adviser Dr Jean Linis-Dinco delivered a lightning talk at the Future of Speech Online, challenging blanket age restrictions dressed up as “care”. ❤️ For many young people, especially queer, working-class and marginalised youth, the internet is a lifeline to community, education, work and support. 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗿. 𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁

🌏 On this #InternationalDayOfNonViolence, we go beyond observing and commit to action. We stand in fierce solidarity with LGBTQIA+ communities across the globe who, right now, are enduring stigma, systemic discrimination, and violence simply for being true to themselves. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🔥𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲. It is the courageous rejection of hate and the unyielding commitment to dismantling the systems of oppression that perpetuate it, no matter

⚖️ #StopTransnationalRepression | On 9 October, a Thai court will decide on the legality of Chinese investigative journalist’s months-long immigration detention in Bangkok. Bai should already be safe. He is recognised as a refugee by UNHCR, and a third country has already accepted him for resettlement… yet Thailand blocked his flight 𝙩𝙬𝙞𝙘𝙚. Now China wants him extradited. ⚠️ If returned, Bai faces political persecution, enforced disappearance and torture. 🚫 Bai’s case i

#StopTransnationalRepression | Bai Zhaodong, a 56-year-old Chinese investigative journalist and UNHCR-recognised refugee, has been unlawfully detained in Bangkok since January 2026. On 9 October, a Thai court will rule on the legality of his detention while China pursues his extradition. If he is forcibly returned, Bai risks grave threats to his life! 📰 Who is Bai? He has worked for more than two decades as an investigative journalist in China, most recently for Caijing maga

⬇️ คุณได้พบเห็นเขาหรือไม่? ภาพจากกล้องวงจรปิดล่าสุดเผยให้เห็นว่า มีผู้พบเห็นเขียวครั้งสุดท้ายเมื่อเวลาประมาณ 02:21 น. ของวันที่ 15 กันยายน 2026 ขณะกำลังเดินทางกลับบ้านหลังจากเลิกงานในจังหวัดสมุทรสาคร แต่เขียวกลับเดินทางไปไม่ถึงบ้าน สามารถอ่านรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับกรณีของเขาได้ที่นี่: bit.ly/WhereIsKhieoTH เขียวคือหนึ่งในนักกิจกรรมชาวลาวจำนวนมากที่ต้องสูญหายหรือถูกสังหารในประเทศไทย เพียงเพราะออกมาร่วมแสดงความคิดเห็นเกี่ยวกับประเด็นทางการเมืองและสังคมในประเทศลาว...

New CCTV footage tells us he was last seen at approximately 2:21 AM on 15 September, heading home after work in Samut Sakhon. But Khieo never made it home. You can read more about his case here: bit.ly/WhereIsKhieo Khieo is one of many Lao activists who have gone missing or were killed in Thailand for speaking out about political and social issues in Laos. Lao activists who seek safety and protection in Thailand still face transnational repression, both online and escalating

This year’s theme, “Solidarity in Action: Advance Reproductive Justice and Urgently Strengthen Health Systems for Comprehensive Abortion Care," calls for turning solidarity into action. This post was lovingly made in collaboration with Tamtang Foundation (@Tamtang_group). This day brings together people and sectors across society to advance sexual and reproductive health and justice, while strengthening health systems so that safe, quality, and accessible abortion care is ava