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Extreme Heat Disparately Effects Low Income Communities: Exploring Klong Toey in Bangkok
📢🌍 In an article published on the 11th of July 2024, SEI (Stockholm Environment Institute) highlighted the severe impact of extreme...

Manushya Foundation
Jul 17, 2024


#DecolonisingHumanRights ✊Read on for our recap of the PXP Regional Decolonising and Decentralising Convening!
📣Last week, around 50 Human Rights Defenders, CSO workers, Indigenous community leaders, academics, journalists, and other regional...

Manushya Foundation
Jul 12, 2024


🚨 Last Funding Justice episode Alert! 🚨 Discover the Majority World Letter, a crucial step towards inclusive and equitable development.
Welcome to the final installment of our #FundingJustice series! Today, we delve into the transformative initiative led by Majority World actors, whose voices and recommendations are pivotal for creating just, inclusive, and equitable development practices. In our previous posts, we've discussed Manushya Foundation’s strategic efforts in decolonizing and decentralizing grant-making. By shifting power dynamics and placing decision-making in the hands of local communities, we ai

Manushya Foundation
Jul 11, 2024


⚖️ To gain #JusticeForPhichit, We must #HoldAkaraAccountable.
🪙 It has been 23 years since Chatree Gold mine began operations in Phichit, Phitsanulok, and Phetchabun. Since its inception, it has been a source of significant distress to the local community and environment. ☢️ Chatree Gold mine is owned and operated by Thai company Akara Resources, a subsidiary of Kingsgate Consolidated Limited, an Australian company. Their operations at Chatree Gold Mine have released toxic chemicals into the ecosystem, resulting in a lack of access to

Manushya Foundation
Jul 11, 2024


Human Rights Groups call on the EU to push Vietnam to respect free speech!
📢🌍Advocating for Change: The EU-Viet Nam Human Rights Dialogue The 12th EU-Viet Nam Human Rights Dialogue, held on July 4, 2024, in...

Manushya Foundation
Jul 9, 2024


#DecolonisedMentalHealth 😊July is BIPOC Mental Health Month!
🤎This July, we want to spotlight intersectionality in mental health for BIPOC Mental Health Month! While everyone experiences mental...

Manushya Foundation
Jul 6, 2024


'ROCKSTAR' ทำถึง! ฉีกทุกกฎวงการ K-POP
Music Video (MV) ล่าสุดของศิลปินไทยที่ทั่วโลกรู้จักอย่าง “ลิซ่า” (Lisa) ลลิษา มโนบาล เป็นที่ถูกพูดถึงอย่างกว้างขวาง...

Manushya Foundation
Jul 1, 2024


#BangkokPride 🇹🇭Reflecting on Bangkok Pride 2024, and staying true to our roots in spite of #RainbowCapitalism
🌏Pride Month is always an exciting time, dedicated to celebrating the global queer community. This year, over 200,000 locals and...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 29, 2024


#DecolonizingFunding - 💰 Funding Justice: Manushya’s Decolonial Grantmaking Strategy in Asia
🏦Welcome to a new post in our #FundingJustice series! Today, we explore the transformative work Manushya Foundation has been conducting in supporting local communities to drive change and challenging the power imbalances perpetuated by traditional grantmaking institutions. Our vision is for inclusive, just, equal, and peaceful societies in Asia! 🌏 🤝Manushya Foundation is committed to decolonizing and decentralizing funding practices by placing decision-making in the hands

Manushya Foundation
Jun 26, 2024


#StopDigitalDictatorship -🌟 Join us for a powerful event! 🌟
💌 RSVP to our event here ! 🗓️ 27 June 2024, 7.00 PM 📍 FCCT - Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, Bangkok 🚀 Press Conference: From Digital Dictatorship to Transnational Repression! 👉🏼 Flagship Country Reports Launch : "Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia" The ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship invites you to our Press Conference: ‘From Digital Dictatorship to Transnational Repression’ 📢 Duri

Manushya Foundation
Jun 25, 2024


#JusticforNesxy - A Lao student has been sexually assaulted by a government employee!
CONTEXT Nanthida is a student at the National University of Laos. From April 8-12th 2024, she attended the ‘Parliamentary Committee’...

Manushya Foundation
Jun 19, 2024


#DecolonizingFunding - 💰Shift the Power Treehouse Spotlight!
🌍 We are excited to bring back our ‘Funding Justice’ series in this post, where we will explore the transformative #ShiftThePower Treehouse initiative, a global movement rebalancing power dynamics in the funding ecosystem. ✊Dive into the manifesto's core principles and discover how local communities are taking the lead in defining their development paths. Let's reshape humanitarian aid together! 🌱 Find out more about the #ShiftThePowerInitiative 🔗 https://shiftthepower.org

Manushya Foundation
Jun 18, 2024


#StopDigitalDictatorship 📢 Calling All Digital Defenders! 📢
Do you ever get the feeling that the digital landscape in ASEAN countries is like a wild roller coaster ride, full of twists, turns, and unexpected drops? We sure do! And that's exactly why we are hard launching our report "Dawn of Digital Dictatorship: Weaponizing the Law Against Online Speech in Southeast Asia" with the #StopDigitalDictatorship Coalition. This isn’t just a report—it’s a movement! But here's the real deal: we're not just about numbers and stats. We're all ab

Manushya Foundation
Jun 14, 2024


#DecolonizingFunding - 💰Funding Justice: Break the Chains of Colonial Funding
#DecolonizingFunding - 💰 Excited to share Part 2 of our ‘Funding Justice’ series where we discuss the on-the-ground realities of the current international aid system. 🛑 Say No to Aid Colonialism and Paternalism! It's time to break the chains of colonial funding and shift the power to those who know the real needs—local actors on the ground. 🎙️In this post, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, Founder of Manushya Foundation, exposes the harsh realities of the international aid system

Manushya Foundation
Jun 13, 2024


#DecolonizingFunding - 💰 Funding Justice: Unravelling the Threads of Colonialism
#DecolonizingFunding - 💰 Introducing Our New Educational Series: 'Funding Justice' 🏦 Through this series, we aim to unpack the complexities of colonial legacies in development funding and spotlight the movement for decolonizing aid. 💼 In this first post, we delve into how colonial remnants persist in the development grants-making sector, which continues to rely on top-down decision-making processes and asymmetrical power dynamics. 🪙 Stay tuned for upcoming posts to learn

Manushya Foundation
Jun 13, 2024
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