The Thai government should take immediate and concrete steps to end the arbitrary arrest, detention, torture, and forced return of refugees, Fortify Rights said on 11 June. In November 2026, the U.N. Human Rights Council will examine Thailand’s human rights record since late 2021 as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Thailand’s previous review took place in November 2021.

Thai Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit and Sunai Phasuk, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch, received online death threats and hate speech in response to their public comments on the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict, and the Government of Thailand must protect them and all human rights defenders from harassment and threats, Fortify Rights said today (21 October). The two prominent human rights defenders filed a petition on October 18 with the Royal Thai Police seeking protection.

The human rights organization Fortify Rights have called on the UN to establish an independent Fact-Finding Mission to investigate the conduct of Thai and Cambodian armed forces in the border conflict between the two nations to establish the facts regarding potential war crimes in the conflict.

The Lawyers Council of Thailand is launching a probe into the death of Aung Ko Ko, a Myanmar national allegedly tortured and killed by Thai soldiers near the Thailand-Myanmar border in Tak's Mae Sot district, following a complaint submitted by Fortify Rights in February. Meanwhile, the Department of Special Investigation has told Fortify Rights that it would cease any investigation into the death of Aung Ko Ko, but did not say why it made such a decision.

The disappearance of six Rohingya refugee children from a government-run shelter in Chiang Mai in March 2025 raises concerns about their safety, including the risk of human trafficking, says the human rights organization Fortify Rights, which calls on the Thai government to ensure that all refugee children have access to legal status and human rights-based alternatives to detention.

The Lawyers Council of Thailand has accepted a complaint filed by Fortify Rights on the case of a 37-year-old Myanmar national who died after being detained and allegedly tortured by Thai soldiers in January 2024. Fortify Rights also called on the Department of Special Investigation to launch an investigation o uncover the truth and hold the perpetrators accountable under the law.

Fortify Rights has called on the Thai government to immediately withdraw a new bill on non-profit organizations being proposed by the Ministry of the Interior, which would grant the government significant control over non-profit organizations, from imposing mandatory registration requirements and reporting requirement on foreign funding to conducting unannounced searches on non-profit offices without a warrant.

Following the dissolution of the Move Forward Party and the dismissal of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, the human rights organization Fortify Rights calls on the Thai government to undertake comprehensive constitutional reforms to protect democratic principles and ensure a balance of power between elected and appointed branches of government, as the "overly broad" power of the Constitutional Court disrupt democratic governance.

Ahead of tomorrow's Constitutional Court ruling on whether to dissolve the Move Forward Party, the human rights advocacy organization Fortify Rights condemns the attempt to dissolve the party as a "direct attack" on democratic principles and called on the Thai authorities to reject the Election Commission's attempt to dissolve the party and institute a ten-year ban on party leaders.

As the Thai Senate will be holding an ad-hoc session on 18 June to vote on the Marriage Equality bill, Fortify Rights calls on the Senate to approve the bill, which would allow marriage registration regardless of gender and make Thailand the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize marriage for LGBTI+ couples.

The Constitutional Court has ordered the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) to submit new documents in support of its petition for the dissolution of the Move Forward Party (MFP) as some were unclear. Meanwhile, human rights organizations have condemned the ECT’s decision to seek the party’s dissolution.

After the cabinet's approval of a marriage equality bill and decision to introduce it to parliament next month, the human rights organization Fortify Rights call on parliament to urgently pass it into law and ensure the right to marriage equality for couples of all genders in Thailand.