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🚨 #JusticeForJoseph 🚨 Meta Suspends Joseph’s Account After Assassination Attempt !
🚨 #JusticeForJoseph 🚨 Yesterday, 25 June, Meta (Facebook) suspended the account of Lao activist Joseph Akaravong, just days after he...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 26, 2025


4 years unjustly imprisoned #StandWithBach #4YearsTooLong
Today marks four years since environmental lawyer and climate justice advocate Dang Dinh Bach was arrested and detained by Vietnamese...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 24, 2025


#DecolonialFeminism 🩷 🔥 Not Fragile like a Flower, Fragile like a Bomb!
♀️Women of the Global South are not just enduring; we are erupting. We are not fragile like flowers that wilt under pressure—we are...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 23, 2025


#WorldRefugeeDay 🫂The Fate of Lao Activists and Refugees | Under the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Regime
#WorldRefugeeDay 🫂 June 20 is World Refugee Day — a moment for the world to pause and truly listen to the voices of those forced to flee...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 20, 2025


#JusticeForJoseph ✊🏽 Joseph Akaravong Was Attacked While Reuniting with a Lao Woman Activist Recently Released from Prison
⚠️ Clarifying the Context: Joseph Was With a Lao Woman Activist at the Time of the Knife Attack On 14 June 2025, the day of the attempted...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 17, 2025


#JusticeForJoseph ✊🏽 Attempted Murder of Lao Activist Joseph Akaravong in France !
Transnational Repression Strikes Again? On Saturday, 14 June 2025, prominent Lao activist and political refugee Joseph Akaravong was the...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 16, 2025


#PrideMonth 🫧Rainbow Capitalism is not queer liberation.
🌈Pride Month has come and gone once more. While it has brought a lot of joy, we witness recurring examples of why there is still so much...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 14, 2025


#Opinion 💡 New Op-Ed | “Why Asia Must Step Up to Rein in Corporate Accountability—Before It’s Too Late”
#Opinion 💡 New Op-Ed | “Why Asia Must Step Up to Rein in Corporate Accountability—Before It’s Too Late” – By Debbie Stothard , Emilie...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 12, 2025


🚨 HAPPENING TODAY! 📢 REPORT LAUNCH | From Colonial Exploitation to Climate Vulnerability 🌏🌿
How does colonialism still shape today’s climate injustice?Who bears the non-economic loss and damage in Asia and the Pacific? 📅 Today – Monday, 9 June 2025 🕑 2:00 PM ICT (Bangkok Time) 📺 LIVE on ZOOM 🔵 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82751738841 🔥 Don’t miss the launch of our flagship report: “From Colonial Exploitation to Climate Vulnerability” An unflinching exposé of the legacy of colonization, extractivism, and the emotional, spiritual, and cultural losses suffered by m

Manushya Foundation
Jun 9, 2025


#PrideMonth 🏳️🌈We bear witness to intersectional queer artistic media, and the complex stories they tell.
📚Amidst a #Media landscape increasingly trying to silence, co-opt, and erase #Intersectional queer narratives, we must continue to...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 7, 2025


🌏 #WorldEnvironmentDay2025 – Beat Plastic Pollution, Protect Our River of Life!
The Mekong River — lifeline for over 70 million people — is now one of the most plastic-polluted rivers on Earth. From Chiang Saen to the...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 5, 2025


🚨 #DecolonizeNow 📢 No Gender Justice Without Development Justice! 🌿
🚨 #DecolonizeNow 📢 No Gender Justice Without Development Justice! 🌿 We’re proud to share our latest input to the UN Special Rapporteur...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 4, 2025


🌈 #PrideMonth | #DecolonizePride | #StayTrueToWhoYouAre
This #PrideMonth, we honour our queer siblings across Southeast Asia and the Global Majority — those who resist every day, not just for...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 2, 2025


📢 No #JustTransition in Laos 🇱🇦 We made a New Submission to the United Nations to expose lies from the Lao government! 🇺🇳
📑 We have just submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment exposing the devastating impacts of the Luang Prabang Dam on Laos’ environment, communities, and cultural heritage. 🇱🇦 As Laos aims to operate 100 dams by 2030 in its bid to become the “Battery of Southeast Asia,” this so-called development is threatening a UNESCO World Heritage Site and displacing more than 500 families—without proper consultation or

Manushya Foundation
May 29, 2025


#DecoloniseCorporatePower - Strengthening solidarity at OECD Watch Global Gathering
🌐As a member of OECD Watch - a global civil society network that formally represents NGOs to the OECD committee promoting responsible business conduct - Manushya joined OECD Watch Global Gathering on April 8-11. ✊At a time where solidarity is needed more than ever, together with nearly 50 colleagues from around 30 countries, we strategised on how to strengthen collaboration and solidarity to break the infernal circle of corporate harm, corporate greed, corporate capture and

Manushya Foundation
May 28, 2025
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