Celebrating the courage of humanitarian aid workers without confronting the colonial violence that killed them, and who made those killings possible, is an insult to their lives. 🇵🇸 In less than three years, at least 595 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, the highest toll ever recorded in a single crisis. 189 were women. The overwhelming majority were Palestinians serving their own communities while surviving the same bombardment, forced displacement, hunger, and grief.

⚖️ On 14 July, Thailand’s Cabinet greenlit a draft deportation regulation designed to expel foreign nationals “without delay” and without legal protections. But when speed replaces due process, lives of human rights defenders are destroyed. As Manushya Foundation’s Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit reminds us: “Laws do not choose between protection and punishment; people do.” The Thai government is making a choice: 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙪𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙙�

An authoritarian superpower seeking to silence its critics abroad needs to look no further than Thailand for a model partner-in-transnational repression. 🇹🇭🤝🇨🇳 Right now, Chinese human rights defenders and UNHCR-recognised refugees Bai Zhaodong and Zhou Junyi remain detained in Bangkok, within arm’s reach of the regime they fled. Their forced return will expose them to torture and enforced disappearance. Thailand has a choice: protect human rights defenders, or cement it

#SaveChaoLay! On the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we lay bare how the tourism industry of Koh Lao, Thailand profits off compounding violence against the Moken peoples who call it home. In this interview, Naowwanit Chaemphit, an Indigenous woman human rights defender and community leader, exposes how the tourism industry of Koh Lao, Thailand profits off compounding violence against the Moken peoples who call it home. She joined Manushya’s workshop, “Tur

The fight for justice can be long. Some changes may take years, even generations. But if we want to stay in the movement for the long run, we need to care for ourselves along the way. 🩷 So, which wellbeing activity are you choosing today? Drop your emoji in the comments and tag a fellow activist who deserves a moment of care, too! 🫶 As Audre Lorde reminds us, caring for ourselves is not self-indulgence but an act of political warfare. Rest is not giving up. The movement nee

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