❤️‍🩹 While the ‘holiday season’ can be a great time to celebrate, reflect, and spend quality time with our loved ones, we need to recognise that nobody is ‘obligated’ to subscribe to the ‘holiday spirit.’ As we approach the end of the ‘2024th year of the Common Era,’ let’s recognise that there are many reasons why people of the Global Majority might have complex thoughts and feelings about this time. Even through the ‘holiday season,’ some continue to endure grief, genocide,

#ThankYouGisele #MeToo 🫶 #GiselePelicot has shifted the direction of shame ✊ She’s the brave courageous woman who told the world « La...

🚨In a powerful article published in The Diplomat , David Whitehouse uncovers Thailand’s glaring human rights failings as it commits...

#AI is evolving faster than Thailand’s laws can keep up, and we’re not having it. We gathered some of the brightest minds for an unapologetic LinkedIn event—moderated by the one and only Tommy Walker—where experts Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, Joanita Britto Menon, and Arzak Khan laid it all out: AI, human rights, and Thailand’s serious need for legal reform. If you missed the event, don’t stress! Slide to capture some highlights! 📹 You can still catch the

🚨 While Laos is busy finding new activists and human rights defenders to terrorise, kill, torture, imprison, and arrest, there’s still...

🚨 On #HumanRightsDay, Manushya Foundation dropped a report that actually matters: "Balancing Progress and Human Rights: Is Thailand...

🌍 On December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, citing national security threats. Within just six...

#DecolonisingWellbeing 👨‍👦Thank you, dad. 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Feminism and liberation for all genders is not just for gender marginalised people. When we divest from gender-based violence and norms, we not only free those who are directly oppressed by these issues, but also free those who might not realise they are oppressed by harmful patriarchal norms while benefiting from them, such as fathers. For example, fathers might feel the pressure to be the sole ‘breadwinners’ of their fa

💔Expecting communities to be entirely free of conflict, disagreements, arguments, fights, and misalignments is unrealistic and counter to our human tendencies. Especially in a world we are trying to decolonise in tangible ways, we should not only face these human challenges, but anticipate them. We must remember that the end goal of our movements is liberation for all our intersectional causes, and a world where all can embrace our differences together. We will never get th

Earlier this year, we submitted a shadow report for the CEDAW’s review of Laos. And, as expected, the Lao delegation showed up with their...

🌏Today we are celebrating World Children’s Day. As COP29 is currently taking place, let’s discuss the impacts of climate change on children. 🚨Globally, over 1 billion children are at extreme high risk from climate-related events, including floodings, heatwaves, water scarcity and air pollution and hundreds of thousands of children die every year due to the impacts of climate change. If nothing is done, more children will die! 🗣️Despite their unique vulnerability to climate

😡 Let’s get this straight, first and foremost: arguments and conflict are going to be part of life, no matter what. It’s part of being a child, parent, sibling, decision-maker, changemaker, visionary, coworker, friend, romantic partner, and human. As discussed in last week’s post on Generational Trauma , there can be so many barriers to healing. If we value diversity, a bit of human conflict once in a while should be anticipated, as part of our human balance. Thus, instead o

#NewReportAlert 📢 Thailand’s Internet Freedom & Political Landscape: Limited, Not Free 🇹🇭 Global internet freedom declined for the 14th consecutive year, with conditions worsening in 27 countries and improving in only 18, according to Freedom on the Net 2024: The Struggle for Trust Online , released by Freedom House on October 16, 2024. The report highlights that governments in 25 of the 72 countries analyzed imposed internet shutdowns or restricted access to information a

Does history really ‘repeat itself?’ What if we were able to change its course by breaking the status quo through radical healing? When we honour and let go of our past, and take responsibility for our present, we realise our power to shape a better future. Generational trauma, as the name suggests, develops over time with every generation. If trauma wounds remain unhealed by the previous generation, it gets passed down. It might go as follows… …individuals/communities inheri

🧠‘Wellbeing’ is not only about ‘going to therapy’ and participating in Western psychological interventions. Though these interventions work for some, they are not necessarily appropriate for all contexts. For example, while verbally expressing your feelings to a therapist using frameworks like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a respectable care practice, not everyone feels comfortable expressing their emotions in formal therapy settings. 🌏Humans have been using so man