Agenda for the Debate “Let’s talk about human rights: Political parties and their elections pledges”Co-organized by Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), Mahidol University And Amnesty International ThailandThursday 7th March 2019, 13.30h – 16.30h Auditorium Room, 5th Floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)
Amnesty International Thailand invites young people in Thailand between 18-30 year old to attend our 3-day diversity workshop where everyone will learn more about cultural diversity through refugee issues. Free admission with some surprises!
Amnesty International reminds President-elect Trump and all elected officials across the country today of their obligations to respect, protect and fulfill human rights in their policies and approaches, here at home and around the world. Amnesty International has documented extensively the damage to human rights caused by President-elect Trump’s first administration, including its efforts to redefine human rights, and stands ready to defend human rights in his second Presidential term.
Open Letter to the Royal Thai Government on the extradition of United Nations-recognized refugee Y Quynh Bdap
Ahead of the 25 October expiry of the statute of limitations in a case in which 85 people died during and after protests in the Tak Bai district of Narathiwat province, Thailand in October 2004, Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong said:
Ahead of the COP16 Biodiversity summit, which runs from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said:
October 7, 2024 marks a year since the horrific attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 abducted. It also marks one year since the start of an ongoing devastating Israeli onslaught that has killed more than 41,500 people and forcibly displaced 1.9 million in the occupied Gaza Strip. To mark the date Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, made the following statement:
Responding to the acquittal of Japanese man Iwao Hakamada, who spent nearly five decades on death row, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said:
People defending the right to abortion have revealed what it’s like to provide life-saving healthcare in the face of violence, repression and stigma, as part of Amnesty International’s second season of On the Side of Humanity podcast.
In response to a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan that found the death penalty constitutional for offences such as murder, E-Ling Chiu, Director of Amnesty International Taiwan, said:
Responding to today’s court ruling in support of a request from victims and their families to file a criminal lawsuit against officials allegedly responsible for the deadly dispersal of a protest in Tak Bai in 2004, Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong said:
Responding to the news that Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ruled in support of the Election Commission of Thailand’s (ECT) request to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP) due to their campaign to reform the lèse-majesté law, Deprose Muchena, Senior Director at Amnesty International said: