UN Human Rights Asia

@UNHumanRights' regional representation in Southeast Asia. Providing #humanrights news and inspiration to advocates throughout #Asia. #StandUp4HumanRights

[UN Human Rights Asia @OHCHRAsia]

📢 Applications are now open for interested journalists!

Are you a journalist from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, or Indonesia looking to deepen your reporting on migration and scam trafficking?

DW Akademie and the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) are partnering to offer a practice-oriented training program: "Navigating Narratives on Migration and Scam Trafficking" on 6-8 October 2026.

🗓️ Deadline to apply: July 27, 2026
🔗 Learn more and apply: https://t.co/v8PH8ZV1VO See less

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

AI is about power – over data, markets, resources, and information. Human rights are the check on that power and the path to ensuring AI serves people, not the other way around.

https://t.co/tGU3rOAcUV

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

What would you do if your loved one was taken away, and no one would tell you where they are for 40 years?

This agony is not unique to Honduras. All over the world, families trapped by enforced disappearance grow old waiting for closure.

We mark 20 years of the UN Convention Against Enforced Disappearance. Grief never fades, and victims’ right to answers never expires.

Full story: https://t.co/vxxPe68Hfy…

[Andrea Bolaños Vargas @AndreaBV_SR_HRD]

🇻🇳#Vietnam
I welcome the release of environmental HRD Đặng Đình Bách after serving five years in prison in Vietnam. @UN_SPExperts had previously expressed concern about his detention, which was found to be arbitrary and appeared to be related to his exercise of the right to defend, promote and strive for the protection and realization of Human Rights. Environmental HRD must be able to carry out their vital work without fear of criminalization, reprisals, or arbitrary detention.

@MOFAVietNam
#HRDsPromisingPractices

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Today's report underscores an urgent point: AI can be a force for good, advancing human rights and benefiting everyone. But that will only happen if we act now with effective safeguards, robust regulation and accountability when rights are harmed.

[UN Human Rights Asia @OHCHRAsia]

@OHCHRAsia is working w/ stakeholders across Thailand to strengthen protections against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and protect civic space.

With the support from @EUinThailand, we recently partnered w/ the Court of Justice, human rights defenders and civil society organisations, and the Senate Subcommittee to prevent the misuse of legal proceedings and safeguard public participation.

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Putting people to death is cruel and inhuman, and it has been a failure at every level.

I urge all States to join the overwhelming global consensus: the death penalty must end everywhere, for all offences.

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[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

Enforced disappearances still happen every day, leaving families without answers.

20 years after the Convention, the call remains clear: Victims first. Action now.

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[UN Human Rights Asia @OHCHRAsia]

🔔 UN Human Rights was pleased to join as a global partner for Ring the Bell for LGBTIQ+ Equality 2026! 🏳️‍🌈

Co-led with @SSEinitiative, @globalcompact, Koppa, Open for Business, @SET_Thailand, TransTalents Consulting Group, @UNDPThailand, UN Global Compact Network Thailand (GCNT) & @DeutscheBank, @SET_Thailand is the first in Asia to declare the commitment to advance the rights of LGBTIQ+ people in the bussiness sector, following the 1st anniversary of #Thailand's marriage equality law.

Let’s build economies and society that value everyone without discrimination.❤️

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Hundreds of billions of dollars are still being poured into fossil fuels every year, while countries on the frontlines of the climate crisis are being forced into debt just to survive.

We need a decisive break with today’s failed climate finance policies.
https://t.co/q4LSl7YiKx

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

Healing after harm: How gender shapes experiences of torture and recovery
https://t.co/pCqEo46fUr

[UN Human Rights Asia @OHCHRAsia]

Join us online at the Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment!

At #GFRR2026, UN Human Rights will highlight how unsafe recruitment pathways can expose migrant workers to exploitation, including trafficking into cyber scam operations, and examine the human rights deficits that persist in temporary labour migration programmes.

Together, we can advance rights-based solutions that place the dignity and rights of workers at the centre of labour migration governance.

Learn more🔗 https://t.co/hVtRF7LBpJ

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

Every year, an estimated 21 million adolescent girls in low and middle income countries become pregnant. Protecting adolescents’ rights means creating the conditions in which every girl can shape her own future: https://t.co/3Ks3uaHUjL

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Torture is a heinous crime – in war or in peace. It is a fundamental assault on human dignity that shatters lives and fuels cycles of violence. We must stand with survivors and ensure their voices are at the heart of prevention, healing, and justice.

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

Human Rights are a central component of foreign and security policy. They are part of the toolbox of statecraft; a prism that goes across all aspects of governance.

My remarks to the European Parliament https://t.co/oHSNJbjbnG

[UN Human Rights Asia @OHCHRAsia]

🕯️ 26 June marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

Torture annihilates the individual’s sense of dignity & self, radiates trauma through families, for generations, & degrades the institutional and moral order and foundation on which society depends.

Today, we honor victims & survivors. Their rights to truth, justice, accountability, rehabilitation, and reparation must be fully realized through approaches that are victim-centred, gender-responsive, & inclusive

We call on States & all individuals to unite in rejecting torture in all its forms and to end, without delay, the impunity that enables such grave violations to persist.