The new Thai government should reverse the trend of past administrations and take concrete action to uphold human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on November 12, 2025. Anutin took office on September 7 following a parliamentary election and royal endorsement.

Increased cooperation between Thai and Vietnamese authorities is putting Vietnamese refugees and asylum seekers in Thailand at heightened risk of forcible return to Vietnam, Human Rights Watch said last Friday (14 November). By facilitating Vietnamese cross-border abuses, known as transnational repression, Thai authorities are violating international refugee law protections.

Yesterday morning (29 October), police, immigration, and provincial officials in Nonthaburi arrested over 70 Montagnard refugees in Bang Yai district. They are being detained at the District Office.

The disappearance of six Rohingya refugee children from a government-run shelter in Chiang Mai in March 2025 raises concerns about their safety, including the risk of human trafficking, says the human rights organization Fortify Rights, which calls on the Thai government to ensure that all refugee children have access to legal status and human rights-based alternatives to detention.

Ministers and members of the Thai media have arrived in China’s Xinjiang Province to visit and check on 40 Uyghur deportees who were repatriated to China, amid concerns over their well-being in China.

Ministers have confirmed the deportation of 40 Uyghur refugees, claiming that they agreed to return to China, and that no third country had offered to take them. Meanwhile, letters written by the Uyghurs have been revealed, showing their desire not to return to China.

Amidst concerns that the Thai authorities are preparing to deport 48 Uyghur refugees detained at Bangkok's Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre back to China, at least three groups of detainees were moved in the middle of the night on Wednesday (26 February) and early Thursday morning (27 February). The second and third groups were moved in trucks with blacked-out windows, while police officers asked reporters not to take pictures.

Following reports that the Thai government is planning to deport 48 Uyghur refugees detained by the Thai authorities to China tomorrow (27 February), the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) demands that the Thai government immediately halt the plan as the refugees would be put at risk of human rights abuses if they deported to China.

Following the closure of hospitals in refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, which had received funds from the US government, due to the suspension of US foreign aid, hospitals along the border have committed to continuing humanitarian aid and preparing for an influx of patients from the camps.

<p>The Myanmar authorities’ restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign, Amnesty International said today.</p> <p>Aid workers told Amnesty International of an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation in Rakhine state, where the military has been engaged in a large-scale operation since attacks on dozens of security posts on 25 August, claimed by the armed group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.</p>

<p>ASEAN lawmakers urged regional governments today to do more to protect migrant workers and refugees, arguing that all members of the ASEAN community are entitled to basic rights and deserve to have their dignity and humanity respected.&nbsp;</p>