BANGKOK — Amnesty International Thailand has called on the Thai government to prioritize human rights during the official visit of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s military leader, former Commander-in-Chief and leader of the 2021 coup d’état, who was elected president this past April. Min Aung Hlaing stands accused of responsibility for grave human rights violations and crimes under international law. Amnesty also urged the Thai government not to allow bilateral cooperation to proceed at the expense of disregarding the ongoing human rights abuses in Myanmar.

Despite the increasingly fractious state of the world, governments and civil society have come together to pass important laws and resolutions to tackle human rights harms, following protests and petitions from activists and campaigners.

The Cambodian government’s high-profile crackdown on scamming compounds has failed to dismantle the vast majority of sites in the country or protect and support thousands of people subjected to human trafficking, torture and slavery, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.

This report presents the latest evidence on the state of the scamming industry in Cambodia from a human rights perspective and assess the effectiveness of state actions on both the industry and its victims. It explores transparency, accountability, due process, victim protection and state responsibility, assessing whether the measures taken by the Cambodian government constitute genuine attempts at countering the scamming industry or merely replicate past patterns of selective enforcement and human rights violations.

Coordinated disinformation campaigns portraying government critics as “foreign agents” are silencing dissent and fueling intimidation and violence under Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

Responding to the resumption of the trial of activists who organized Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong, Amnesty International Hong Kong’s spokesperson Fernando Cheung said:

 Abolishing the death penalty

Executions in 2025 soared to the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 1981, with 2,707 people executed across 17 countries, revealed the latest annual report from the human rights organization on the global use of the death penalty.

Responding to the International Criminal Court confirming all crimes against humanity charges against former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, paving the way for full trial proceedings, the Director of Amnesty International Philippines Ritz Lee Santos said:

The world is on the brink of a perilous new era, driven by powerful states’, corporations’ and anti-rights movements’ assaults on multilateralism, international law and human rights, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights. States, international bodies and civil society must reject the politics of appeasement and collectively resist these attacks to prevent this new order from taking hold, the organization said in its assessment of the human rights situation in 144 countries. 

Amnesty International Thailand submitted 3,008 actions and chanted “#FreeSaiZawThaike” at the Myanmar Embassy to demand the release of “Sai Zaw Thaike”, a photojournalist who has been sentenced to jail simply for reporting on the aftermath of a cyclone in  Myanmar.