FORUM-ASIA strongly condemns the acid attack against Indonesian human rights defender Andrie Yunus, Deputy Coordinator of KontraS, in Jakarta on 12 March 2026.

UN experts* on 11 November expressed grave concern over renewed online attacks, disinformation campaigns, and harassment of two prominent Thai human rights defenders, Angkhana Neelapaijit and Sunai Phasuk.

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.

Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit, former human rights commissioner, and Human Rights Watch’s senior researcher Sunai Phasuk filed a petition with the police chief on Saturday (18 October) requesting police protection after they received death threats and online harassment for criticising a social media influencer’s activities in areas along the Thailand-Cambodia border.

After the fatal shooting of Roning Dolah, a Pattani-based activist working on rehabilitation support for torture survivors, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Thailand have called on the Thai government to investigate his death.

<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>

<p>Representatives of four high school student activist groups tell stories of the harassment and legal prosecution they now face after speaking out about human rights violations they face in school, reiterating that the right to freedom of expression is a constitutional right, while vowing to keep fighting nonetheless.</p>

<p>Human rights defenders in Asia continue to face threats and rights violations, which were made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, says FORUM-ASIA on International Human Rights Defenders Day (9 December).</p>

<p>The Director-General of the Department of Special Investigation will visit the Dong Ma Fai Subdistrict in Nong Bua Lamphu to investigate the murders of local community&nbsp;rights defenders, but will not be able to meet with the activists&#39; families as the visit was scheduled without consultation with the community.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Protection International calls attention to the threat to human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for governments not to use their crisis responses as an excuse to crack down on human rights defenders and to ensure that their response measures are in strict accordance with human rights standard.</p>

<p>A group of UN experts&nbsp;have condemned the continued misuse of judicial processes by Thai poultry producer Thammakaset to harass and silence human rights defenders who have spoken out against its abusive and exploitative labour practices.</p>

<p>On 4 February, Protection International (PI) launched the &ldquo;Art for Resistance: Quilt of Women Human Rights Defenders&rdquo; exhibition of 54 quilts by 52 women and 2 men human rights defenders from all over Thailand, at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC).</p>