<p>On 26 November 2021, a law NGO Destination Justice has&nbsp;filed an Urgent Action to the United Nations&rsquo; Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Thai activists&nbsp;Parit &#39;Penguin&#39;&nbsp;Chiwarak&nbsp; and Panusaya &#39;Rung&#39; Sithijirawattanakul.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Kicking off the&nbsp;commemoration of 16 Days of Activism and International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, feminists, women workers, and grassroots women from Asia and the Pacific gathered for an online protest to call for safety for women in workplaces and&nbsp;the urgent ratification of ILO C-190.</p>

<p>Amnesty International has launched its 20th Write for Rights campaign, which includes a call for justice for Thai student activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, currently <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9558">detained pending trial</a> on royal defamation charges.</p>

<p>The Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture (BALAC) program, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, in collaboration with the NEVER AGAIN Association, American University of Phnom Penh and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance cordially invites you to attend an online public lecture &ldquo;Critical Discourse Analysis approach to study anti-minority discourses, racism, and genocide denial&rdquo; by Professor Teun A. van Dijk, distinguished professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.</p>

<p>As the 26th session of the Conference of Parties (COP26) to the UN United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow comes to a close, members and partners of Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) reiterate their rejection to false climate solutions reflected in the COP26 outcomes that further burden grassroots women and perpetuate plunder of resources of global south countries.</p>

<p>On 9 November 2021,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/thailand&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636783943474000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04WIoAttdszBP7ef0DOa6O" href="https://www.hrw.org/thailand" target="_blank">Thai</a>&nbsp;immigration officials forcibly returned two Cambodian refugees, putting them at risk of unfair trials in&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/asia/cambodia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636783943474000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OnxEwfQpJO5oqA39UpQuL" href="https://www.hrw.org/asia/cambodia" target="_blank">Cambodia</a>, said Human Rights Watch.</p>

<p>As Thailand&rsquo;s human rights record is examined at the Human Rights Council on 11 November 2021, CIVICUS and the Asia Democracy Network (ADN) call on UN member states to raise serious concerns about Thailand&rsquo;s civic freedoms.</p>

<p>On 10 November&nbsp;2021, Thailand&rsquo;s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council&rsquo;s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time in a meeting that will be&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://webtv.un.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636188078447000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGJEniuqxGpMNrHdaAe4dfQ9qdzTQ" href="http://webtv.un.org/" target="_blank">webcast live</a>.</p>

<p>The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hrw.org/thailand">Thai</a>&nbsp;authorities should promptly and impartially investigate the alleged police torture of two pro-democracy activists in Bangkok and hold those responsible to account, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/03/thailand-police-torture-political-activists">Human Rights Watch </a>said yesterday (3 November).&nbsp;</p>

<p>In an open letter, civil society organisations raised concern regarding seven migrant workers arrested at Ministry of Labour despite Thailand government&rsquo;s decision on amnesty pending regularization and demand for Protection of the Right to Defend Human Rights of migrant workers.</p>

<p>The government urged to replace the Minister of Labour to show their responsibility for failure in the management of foreign workers and to address human trafficking, stated the labour rights NGO Migrant Working Group (MWG).</p>

<p>On 27 October 2021, on the opening day of the 2021 Asia Land Forum: Securing Land Rights and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), participants reiterated the important role of using data to monitor the progress of securing land rights in Asia, particularly in accordance with the SDG targets and indicators.</p>