<p>Amnesty International Thailand and Thai activists gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Bangkok today (23 March) and held a candlelight vigil to call for an end to Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine.</p>

<p>ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) called on ASEAN to take urgent actions after the Office of the United Nations&nbsp;High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council which found that the Myanmar military has committed human rights abuses that&nbsp;may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.</p>

<p>Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine must have their rights respected under the Third Geneva Convention, Amnesty International said on 7 March.</p>

<p>The conviction of Narin, who was <a href="https://prachatai.com/english/node/9727">sentenced last Friday</a> (4 March 2022) to 3 years in prison on a royal defamation charge for putting a sticker over a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn,&nbsp;demonstrates the government&rsquo;s intensifying targeting of individuals and allies of the pro-democratic movement, said FoRUM-ASIA, CIVICUS, and Asia Democracy Network, who call for the repeal of the royal defamation law and the immediate release of everyone detained under this law.</p>

<p>On International Women&#39;s day,&nbsp;The Women Human Rights Defenders Collective in Thailand issued a statement demanding a stop to the Draft Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations.</p>

<p>Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-ILRF) and partner organizations in the Seafood Working Group (SWG) are calling on the Biden Administration to ensure U.S. companies do not import fishing nets made by Thai companies that use forced prison labor.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Online sexual abuse and exploitation of children in Thailand is underreported, with only&nbsp;1- 3% of children disclosing experience told the police, according to a research delivered by&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ecpat.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645513181190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2FooyJ-7eabo5W6ZntU3kS" href="https://ecpat.org/" target="_blank">ECPAT</a>,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.interpol.int/en&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645513181190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OiHQ7qKKZNOsHYAtInMSx" href="https://www.interpol.int/en" target="_blank">I</a>NTERPOL, and the&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.unicef-irc.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645513181190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1CVDQU4hvi4nReVbRVjh54" href="https://www.unicef-irc.org/" target="_blank">UNICEF Office of Research</a>.</p>

<p>Amnesty International has had a longstanding presence in Thailand and is committed to continuing to promote and protect human rights for people in the country despite calls for it to be expelled, the organization said on 16 February.</p>

<p>Mineral resource-related civil society network submitting a letter to the coalition of opposition parties asking for an inquiry into the restart of Phichit Gold Mine by Kingsgate Consolidated Limited, exposing four major flaws and how the mine has caused grave health impacts on the public, the environment, nature and local ecology.</p>

<p>On 21 January 2022, as&nbsp;the trial of Kem Sokha, leader of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) resumed after a two year delay, Southeast Asian parliamentarians have reiterated their call for Cambodian authorities to immediately and unconditionally drop the treason charges against him.&nbsp;</p>