15 May 2016

The submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Thailand taking place in May 2016. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made in the previous cycle of the UPR.

Myanmar’s new government will take office with a historic opportunity to change course on human rights but must break away from the deeply repressive legal framework that for years has fuelled arbitrary arrests and repression, Amnesty International said in a new report today.

11 March 2016

Amnesty and its alliances submitted the letter to request the Council of Ministers to reveal the 3 drafts of law concerning the cyber security, as well as keeping an eye on the draft bill to be in compliance with the international standards.

International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned Amnesty International as it launched its annual assessment of human rights around the world.

20 February 2016

13 January 2016

As the third anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone nears, the undersigned Directors of Amnesty International offices in Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Korea, India, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, the United States of America, and Zimbabwe are writing to remind your government of the worldwide concern over his disappearance and the apparent lack of an adequate investigation.

Today (6th November 2015) at 10.30 hour, 20 Amnesty International Thailand activists gathered in front of the Embassy of Myanmar in Bangkok, South Sathorn Road, Bangkok in order to submit the letter and the report on “going back to the old ways: a new generation of prisoners of conscience in Myanmar”, as well as calling on the Myanmar authority to release the prisoners of conscience without any condition.

Rohingya women, men and children attempting to flee persecution in Myanmar by boat earlier this year were killed or severely beaten by human traffickers if their families failed to pay ransoms, and kept in hellish, inhuman conditions, Amnesty International reveals in a new report today.

Myanmar’s authorities have been locking up and harassing scores of peaceful activists as part of an intensifying and far-reaching crackdown ahead of November’s elections, Amnesty International said as it launched a new campaign to free prisoners of conscience today.