After Suchart Chomklin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, brought criminal defamation lawsuits against two journalists who reported about a bribery case, Human Rights Watch calls for a stronger anti-SLAPP protections, noting that the apparent aim of such lawsuits is intimidation and that they undermine freedom of expression.

A new investigation by Amnesty International shows that a dozen casinos in Cambodia are directly linked to scamming compounds where torture, forced labour, child labour and human trafficking have taken place.

The Thailand annual prison report 2026, produced by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in cooperation with the Union for Civil Liberty (UCL) and Freedom Bridge, found that prison conditions remained poor and well below international standards in 2025.

Despite decades of progress, inequalities continue to compromise global water security, disproportionally impacting women and girls, who despite of being the main collectors of water, continue to be excluded from water management and leadership roles, says the United Nations World Water Development Report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water.

The Thai government’s decision on 10 March 2026 to extend the Thailand–Japan Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) cooperation for another three years risks locking Thailand into long-term fossil fuel dependence at a time when the global transition away from fossil fuels is accelerating, Greenpeace Thailand and Greenpeace East Asia warned.

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* today (12 March) deplored the continued failure to clarify the fate and whereabouts of Thai human rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit 22 years after his enforced disappearance.

The Thai authorities should immediately release Le Chi Thanh, a prominent Vietnamese anti-corruption activist, and ensure that he is not forcibly returned to Vietnam, Human Rights Watch said today (12 March)

Human Rights Watch have demanded an investigation into the death of Sisay Luangmonda, an outspoken critic of the Lao government widely known by his social media name Bao Mor Khaen, after his body was found on a roadside in Hadxayfong district, outside the capital, Vientiane, four days after his family reported to local authorities that he was missing.

UN experts today (27 February) expressed grave concern about 40 Uyghur Muslim men forcibly returned to China by Thai authorities a year ago, whose fate, state of health and whereabouts remain unknown.

15 human rights organizations have condemned the sentencing of Thai woman human rights defender Pimsiri Petchnamrob, alongside activists Anon Nampa, Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, and Phromsorn Weerathamjaree. They called on the Thai authorities to overturn the sentences against them and to stop using the royal defamation law against individuals exercising their fundamental rights and freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and association.

CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls for the immediate release of five detained Mother Nature Cambodia environmental rights defenders charged with “plotting against the state” and “insulting the King” due to their peaceful environmental advocacy.