6,500 is the number of urban refugees in Bangkok and metropolitan. While they exist among us, we are oblivious to their existence. It appears we live in two parallel worlds even though we might walk past each other unknowingly.
The outbreak of the coronavirus (2019-nCov) that started in the Chinese city of Wuhan (Hubei province) in late 2019 has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO).
A wave of youth-led protests across Asia is defying escalating repression and a continent-wide crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today as it published its annual report on human rights in the region.
เมื่อวันที่ 30 มกราคม ที่โรงแรมเดอะสุโกศล กรุงเทพฯ แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล แถลงข่าวเปิดตัวรายงานสถานการณ์สิทธิมนุษยชนในภูมิภาคเอเชียและแปซิฟิกประจำปี2562/2563 โดยในรายงานนำเสนอบทวิเคราะห์เจาะลึกถึงพัฒนาการด้านสิทธิมนุษยชนใน 25 ประเทศและดินแดน กล่าวถึงบทบาทของนักกิจกรรมรุ่นใหม่ที่ต่อสู้กับความพยายามในการปราบปรามต่อผู้ที่เห็นต่าง การต่อสู้กับปฏิบัติการผ่านโซเชียลมีเดียที่รุนแรง และการเซ็นเซอร์ทางการเมืองอย่างกว้างขวาง
In response to today’s ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Myanmar to take “provisional measures” to prevent genocidal acts against the Rohingya community, Amnesty International’s Regional Director, Nicholas Bequelin, said:
Amnesty International Thailand organized the 2019 Media Awards on Wednesday 22nd January 2020 between 13:30 hr. and 16:00 hr.at the Galaxy 1 Room, 10th Floor, the AVANI Riverside Bangkok. The four award categories were: print media; online media; television (long reports); and television (short reports).
Amnesty International calls on the Thai authorities to stop instrumentalizing the legal process to intimidate and harass the leaders and members of the Future Forward party, as the country’s Constitutional Court prepares to deliver a judgment on 21 January 2020 on a judicial case that could see the party banned and its leaders prosecuted.
Vietnamese authorities have stepped up a countrywide crackdown marked by arrests and widespread social media censorship as they attempt to stifle public debate about a deadly land dispute, said Amnesty International today.
Ahead of President Xi Jinping’s two-day state visit to Myanmar, which begins on Friday 17 January 2020, Amnesty International’s Regional Director, Nicholas Bequelin, said:
The Cambodian authorities must stop the harassment and intimidation of members of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party. Amnesty International has received information that Mr. Soun Chamroeun, a 37-year-old CNRP activist, was subject to a physical attack and an apparent attempted abduction in Bangkok on the evening on 22 December 2019. Mr. Chamroeun is at serious risk of further human rights abuses at the hands of the Cambodian authorities should he be forcibly returned to Cambodia.
Amnesty International calls for an end to judicial harassment of the political opposition, human rights defenders and activists in Thailand, as authorities began new criminal proceedings against members of the Future Forward Party and activists because of their recent peaceful protests.
15 December 2019: On the seventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned organizations, urge the Lao and Thai governments to investigate enforced disappearances, and demand Vientiane finally reveal Sombath’s whereabouts and ensure justice for him and his family.