The UN General Assembly 🇺🇳 has voted overwhelmingly to back the International Court of Justice’s landmark climate ruling, affirming that States have legal obligations to prevent climate harm and protect people from the climate crisis. ⚖️🌏 This is a major victory for climate justice, frontline communities, Indigenous Peoples, youth movements, and everyone who has been saying what polluters refused to hear: 🔸 Climate destruction is not “development.” 🔸 Climate inaction i

Laws drafted about communities, without communities, will never deliver justice for communities. ✊ At the ICAR Annual Meeting 2026, our Founder & Executive Director Emilie Palamy Pradichit brought one urgent message to this global gathering of corporate accountability leaders when it comes to #mHERDD laws: ⚖️ 𝗗𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘅-𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁...

Dear Manushyan, Dear Friend, Across Laos and Thailand, Indigenous Peoples continue to face systemic human rights abuses linked to business activities and development projects. The guardians of the land are being treated as obstacles to profit, conservation, and state control, while corporations and authorities move forward with impunity. Manushya’s two new UN submissions are grounded in the realities of Indigenous communities, including firsthand testimonies and community-led

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) Across the region, LGBTIQ+ people across the region are still punished for existing. In 🇧🇳 Brunei, homosexuality can carry the death penalty. In 🇮🇩 Aceh, Indonesia, same-sex relations are punished by caning. In 🇲🇾 Malaysia and 🇲🇲 Myanmar, homosexuality can mean prison. In 🇵🇭 the Philippines, transphobia reigns with discrimination and killings of trans-activists. And in 🇹🇭 Th

Borders are supposed to protect. So why are human rights defenders still being hunted in exile? Human Rights Watch has noted that, “Thailand has become a ‘swap mart’ for dissidents across the region, where governments cooperate to target critics beyond their own borders.” This is transnational repression (TNR). When states reach across borders to surveil, intimidate, silence, detain, forcibly return, or even physically harm those who speak out. From digital surveillance and o

On 14th May 2024, Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom, a 28-year-old pro-democracy activist from Thailand and member of Thaluwang, died in custody while in pre-trial detention. She had been detained after her bail was revoked in a lèse-majesté (Section 112) case and had gone on hunger strike to protest the denial of bail and the imprisonment of political dissidents. Bung should still be here. She was not convicted. She was not sentenced. She was a young woman human rights defender d

When diplomatic pressure cancelled the world's leading digital rights forum, we made a choice: keep going. Join us for a critical conversation that was meant to take place in Zambia, now coming to you through a webinar. 🌐 How the UN Cybercrime Treaty is Advancing Transnational Repression in Southeast Asia 📅 Monday, 29 June 2026 📍 LIVE on Manushya’s Facebook and YouTube 🕝 2:15 - 3:45 PM Kathmandu 🕞 3:30 - 5:00 PM Bangkok 🕧 6:30 - 8:00 PM Naarm 🌏 Across Southeast Asia, g

✂️ On 10 May 2026, in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 53, Bangkok, an online controversy became offline violence. A trans woman known as “Madam Lor” was surrounded by a large, angry crowd after a dispute that reportedly began with criticism of transgender Muslim women wearing hijabs, then escalated over alleged offensive remarks about Islam during a livestream. A restaurant meeting meant to ease tensions quickly turned into public humiliation: under intense pressure, she was made to apologi

For over 80 years, a heavy veil of silence has covered one of the most brutal chapters of World War II: the systematic sexual enslavement of over 200,000 women and girls in Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army. They were euphemistically called “Comfort Women”, but there was NOTHING comforting about military sexual slavery. Many were teenagers who were abducted and brought to “comfort stations” where they were raped around the clock by soldiers in occupied territories.

We jumped on the Millennial vs Gen Z social media trend, because hey, we're a proudly intergenerational feminist team at Manushya. And as a team of decolonial and intersectional feminists at Manushya, we don’t see the Global North and Global South as just geography. We see them as lived realities shaped by privilege, marginalisation, and structural inequality. You can live in the North and experience the realities of the South through poverty and exclusion. You can also live

In a Devex article by Rebecca L. Root, Manushya’s Founder & Executive Director Emilie Palamy Pradichit reveals how the cuts gutted life-saving protection systems for the growing number of repressed activists and citizen journalists. “When the USAID funding cuts came in, it became a question of life or death. There were several activists, including citizen journalists, who we were not able to protect right away,” Emilie Palamy said. At Manushya, the suspension of US funding fo

🌐 A feminist digital future is possible, BUT only if it is rooted in justice. On 23 April, our Founder and Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit, spoke at the panel “Digital Rights, Gender Equity and Youth Protection in ASEAN’s Digital Transformation,” moderated by Angela Romano from the University of Queensland. As part of a leadership training for emerging Southeast Asian women leaders in digital transformation, the panel brought together feminist voices with one sha

In this interview, Saluai Hantale, a Chao Lay Indigenous woman activist from Koh Lipe and member of the Indigenous Women's Network of Thailand (IWNT) and Indigenous Women’s Association for Development (IWAD), speaks with Manushya about being sued for defending her community’s ancestral land. Koh Lipe is often seen as one of Thailand’s most beautiful island destinations. But behind the image of paradise, Chao Lay Indigenous sea peoples face land grabbing, blocked access to fis

This Friday, Meta will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs. Mark Zuckerberg's company said that this is due to low opt-in rates. It is true that Instagram was never built for private communications, but for activists, grassroots organisers, queer support networks, mutual aid groups, and community campaigns, Instagram IS the infrastructure. Telling people to "just move to Signal" ignores the fact that you cannot move a decade of community building overnight. The pe

A truly feminist Crimes Against Humanity Treaty must do more than name violence. It must change who gets to shape justice. ⚖️ At Women Deliver 2026, our Founder and Executive Director, Emilie Palamy Pradichit powerfully moderated the discussion, “Building the Vision: Feminist Pathways to a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty”. Emilie Palamy grounded the room in what is at stake: “This could become the first opportunity to challenge and confront colonialism within international cri