The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) welcomes the recent entry into force of Thailand's new law criminalizing sexual harassment, but stresses that further reforms are required to ensure effective and human rights-compliant protection for survivors of sexual harassment, to strengthen awareness-raising to support effective enforcement and to prevent an overly broad application of the law.

<p>Women and LGBTQ activists who participated in the 2020 pro-democracy movement are facing gendered harassment and discrimination even from within their own movement, says a new report by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.</p>