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Manushya Foundation

∞ Equal Human Beings ∞ Intersectional Feminists reinforcing the power of Humans! 🫶 In Sanskrit, Manushya means 'Human Being'.

Manushya Foundation (Manushya) was founded in 2017 by Emilie Palamy Pradichit, with the vision to build a movement of Equal Human Beings ∞ ∞ Manushya is an Intersectional Feminist organization reinforcing the power of Humans, in particular local communities and women human rights defenders, to fight for Human Rights, Equality & Justice!

∞ Our Vision ∞
• Equal Huma

n Beings • We Believe in the 'Infinite Positive Power of Humans' in building together inclusive, just, equal and peaceful societies in Asia, where everyone enjoys human rights, leaving no one behind.

∞ Our Mission ∞
We connect and reinforce the power of local communities across Asia to be at the center of decisions and policies that affect them. Communities become Agents of Change fighting for their rights and providing solutions to improve their lives and livelihoods.

∞ Our Thematic Focus ∞

1. Digital Rights: We work towards the promotion and protection of online freedom of expression and online privacy.

2. Business & Human Rights / Climate Justice: We’re committed to put People & Planet over Profit!

3. United Nations Accountability Mechanisms: We reinforce the power of local communities to engage with UN Human Rights Mechanisms, ensuring their voices and needs are taken into account to improve the situation on the ground. We also pursue strategic litigation before the UN to bring Justice to communities!

4. Women Leaders: We apply a gender lens to our work and ensure women human rights defenders lead human rights decisions and initiatives.

5. Resourcing Human Rights Defenders: We provide subgrants to marginalized communities affected by unfair policies and facing the most adverse impacts of business conducts.

∞ How does change happen? We implement the following strategies:

1. Coalition Building: establishing strong intersectional networks.
2. Capacity Development: enabling communities to effectively fight for their rights.
3. Research, Advocacy & Campaigns: centering communities' voices in policies and campaigns.
4. Subgranting: financially supporting the most marginalized to fight for their rights!

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พวกเราทำให้ชุมชนมีส่วนร่วมโดยการเสริมสร้างศักยภาพเกี่ยวกับกลไกการติดตามตรวจสอบสถานการณ์สิทธิมนุษยชนขององค์การสหประชาชาติเพื่อที่จะทำให้มั่นจได้ว่าชุมชนสามารถมีส่วนร่วมได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ พวกเราให้เครื่องมือแก่ชุมชนในการสร้างหลักบานที่น่าเชื่อถืออย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ ตรวจสอบหาข้อเท้จจริง ติดตามตรวจสอบ และเก็บข้อมูลด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนในระดับพื้นที่เพื่อผลักดันให้รัฐบาลมีความรับผิดชอบต่อพันธกรณีด้านสิทธิมนุษยชน

การขับเคลื่อน
พวกเราขับเคลื่อนงานด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนอย่างรอบด้านผ่านทางการมีส่วนร่วมของภาคประชาสังคม การเคลื่อนไหวนี้เกิดขึ้นเพื่อบรรลุความเท่าเทียมและสร้างความเป็นอันหนึ่งอันเดียวกัน รวมทั้งความร่วมมือทั้งใน และระหว่างชุมชน การเป็นเสียงที่มีความเป็นหนึ่งเดียว ชุมชนสามารถทำให้ตนเองถูกมองเห็น ได้ยิน และมีความหน้าเชื่อถือ

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พวกเราเสริมสร้างอำนาจให้แก่ชุมชนโดยให้ความสำคัญต่อชุมชนในฐานะศูนย์กลางด้านสิทธิมนุษยชน และการตอบสนองด้านการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืนของประเทศของพวกเขา ทำให้เกิดการมีส่วนร่วมอย่างสร้างสรรค์ และสามารถจัดหาวิธีแก้ไขปัญหาแก่รัฐบาลของพวกเขา เพื่อจัดการปัญหา ช่องว่างและความต้องการ และท้ายที่สุดพัฒนาสิทธิมนุษยชน การใช้วีการสร้างความเข้มแข็งจากระดับฐานรากสู่ระดับนโยบายด้านบน ชุมชนจะเป็นเจ้าของปัญหาของตนเองและกลายเป็นผู้นำการเปลี่ยนแปลง เมื่อชุมชนได้รับการเสริมสร้างความแข็งแกร่งจะทำให้ชุมชนสามารถนำวิธีแก้ปัญหาในระดับท้องถิ่นไปเสริมอำนาจให้แก่เพื่อนพ้องได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพโดยไม่มีใครถูกทิ้งไว้อยู่เบื้องหลัง

23/05/2026

! 📱 Exile should mean safety. But for women defenders like Bopha, the attacks just moved online.

Bopha* is a woman environmental activist from Southeast Asia 🌱. She faced imprisonment for her activism and fled her country to survive. But the harassment followed her in digital spaces. 👁️

As Bopha describes it, transnational repression is “a government tactic to shut down the voices of those who look for social justice.”

🚨 Repression continues online through digital threats or attacks: threatening messages, fake accounts, coordinated harassment, sexualised abuse, disinformation, hacking, and online surveillance.

For women defenders, the violence is also gendered. It attacks their bodies, credibility, families, and safety; because their resistance threatens power.

Digital rights are human rights. Violations of digital rights are violations of human rights. ⚖️

✊ Because transnational repression does not stop at borders, and it does not stop in the physical world.

*Name changed to protect her identity and safety.

♾️ Equal Human Beings

22/05/2026

🚨 CLIMATE JUSTICE ALERT! 🌏 No more impunity for States fueling climate destruction.

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 is not neutral.
🔸 Climate harm must come with accountability.

At Manushya Foundation, as fierce long-time advocates for climate justice, we welcome this historic step. From Thailand 🇹🇭 to Laos 🇱🇦, we have confronted false climate solutions, corporate greenwashing, land grabs, extractivism, and “development” projects that sacrifice frontline communities while pretending to save the planet.

Now States must act. Thailand, Laos, and all governments must stop hiding behind empty climate promises and start protecting the environment and its people. ✊🏾

‼️ And to the 8 countries that voted no: history is watching. It is no coincidence that some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel powers and militarised States stood against climate accountability.

The law is catching up. Us movements from the Global South are not backing down. ✊🏾

♾️ Equal Human Beings

20/05/2026

Manushya Foundation's Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit at ICAR 2026: Due diligence must be grounded in lived realities

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 laws:

⚖️ 𝗗𝘂𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘅-𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺.

Drawing from Manushya’s movement lawyering work with affected communities in Thailand 🇹🇭, including the historic Phichit gold mining case, Emilie Palamy emphasized that laws must be shaped by the communities they claim to protect: Indigenous Peoples, forest guardians, women human rights defenders, and frontline communities living the realities of corporate abuse.

Because when communities are excluded from shaping the law, the law is not designed to protect them.

🙌 Massive thanks to OECD Watch and International Corporate Accountability Roundtable - ICAR for inviting Manushya Foundation to bring community-rooted realities into this critical space. Always grateful to be part of the Coordination Committee, working collectively toward real global corporate accountability.

♾️ Equal Human Beings

17/05/2026

𝗛𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 🌏, 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 #𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗛𝗢𝗕𝗜𝗧! 🏳️‍🌈

As Southeast Asians, why do we need to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia, and Transphobia?

Because 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 🇹🇭 Thailand, a trans woman was recently forced to shave her head and publicly humiliated by a mob.

What we call “Asian traditional values” is actually a mask for: patriarchy, religious extremism, and state control, policing our bodies and lives.

Hence, IDAHOBIT must go beyond rainbow visibility. For true q***r liberation, we must resist the very systems that make LGBTIQ+ people unsafe: at home, online, in public, and before the law.

✊🏽 As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya stand in fierce solidarity with LGBTIQ+ communities across Southeast Asia fighting for safety, dignity, bodily autonomy, legal recognition, and liberation.

Thank you, , for the beautiful artwork. 🩷

♾️ Equal Human Beings

15/05/2026

✊ 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 online harassment to enforced disappearance and assassination attempts, TNR is not an imaginary threat. It is happening now, and across Southeast Asia, Thailand has become the leading hub where these abuses unfold, with over 150 reported cases in the last decade alone.

For many human rights defenders, crossing a border does not mean safety. Not only will they be a target, but their family and friends will also be at risk.

📲 Swipe through. Learn the patterns. Stay with us for the voices of survivors. We can all be part of ending transnational repression.

♾️Equal Human Beings

14/05/2026

**g ✊Two years without B**g. Two years without answers. Two years of Thailand’s justice system still trying to bury what it did. 🕯️

On 14th May 2024, Netiporn “B**g” 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.

B**g should still be here.

She was not convicted. She was not sentenced. She was a young woman human rights defender demanding what every person deserves: freedom, dignity, justice, and the right to speak truth to power without being caged for it.

Her death was not just a tragedy. It was an indictment of a system that uses pre-trial detention as punishment, weaponizes the law against dissent, and treats political prisoners as disposable.

Two years on, we remember B**g not as a victim of silence, but as a rebel whose voice still echoes in every call to free political prisoners, end judicial harassment, and abolish laws used to crush democracy.

Thailand’s authorities must deliver truth, justice, and accountability for B**g.

As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya carry her voice in ours. We carry her fight in our bones. ✊

**g

♾️ Equal Human Beings

14/05/2026

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: 29 JUNE 2026! Digital repression doesn’t stop at borders, and neither does our resistance. ✊

When diplomatic pressure cancelled RightsCon () 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, governments are using cybersecurity laws to surveil, silence, and pursue dissidents across borders. The UN Cybercrime Treaty gives those practices a legal veneer, and civil society needs to be ready.

Hear from experts from ASEAN Regional Coalition to .

Panellists:
‣ Emilie Palamy Pradichit, Manushya Foundation
‣ Noor Azizah, Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network
‣ Seng Sovathana, Cambodian Center for Human Rights l មជ្ឈមណ្ឌលសិទ្ធិមនុស្សកម្ពុជា
‣ Nenden Arum, SAFEnet
‣ Dr Jean Linis-Dinco, Manushya Foundation

Moderated by Debbie Stothard, ALTSEAN-Burma

♾️ Equal Human Beings

12/05/2026

🚨 𝙃𝙐𝙈𝘼𝙉 𝙍𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏𝙎 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏! 🚨A trans woman was forced to shave her head and publicly humiliated by an angry mob in Bangkok

✂️ 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 apologise, slap herself, and shave her head before police intervened and escorted her away.

Even while police were escorting her to safety, the large mob tried desperately to grab her (see video).

Let us be clear: Nothing warrants this violence. This was not “accountability.” This was transphobic violence and a hate crime.

✊ We at Manushya Foundation vehemently condemn this degrading act of public humiliation and stand with transcommunities facing violence. Regardless of the circumstances, no one should be subjected to this level of mob punishment.

🏳️‍🌈Bangkok is often celebrated as one of the world’s most welcoming cities for transgender people and even recently became the first country in Asia to be awarded the UNDP “Gold” Gender Equality Seal.

Yet, Madam Lor’s story is not an isolated incident. Her story and many others like this remind us that visibility does not always mean safety, dignity, or equal protection.

This violence sends a chilling message to all trans women in Thailand, including in so-called gender-progressive Bangkok: you can be visible, celebrated, and still left unprotected when hatred erupts.

Accountability must never come at the cost of human dignity.

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♾️Equal Human Beings