Leading Organizations

DEPDC/GMS has been working for 25 years to protect children and youth from being trafficked into exploitative labor conditions. Its mission is to help the most at-risk children and their families and communities in order to decrease the conditions and factors that make them vulnerable to trafficking.

The Foundation works to promote freedom of expression and to enhance democracy, human rights, and social justice by providing a platform for alternative media, building media literacy capacity, as well as providing access to information on social, cultural, and political issues. Their initiatives include Prachatai, thisAble.me, and Dek Lang Hong, to name a few.

Thai TGA supports transgender people in Thailand and contributes to a better quality of life by strengthening the capacity and skills of the community and particularly of transgender-based groups and organizations. It advocates and works with other networks to build a society without sexual prejudice and stigma.

Founded in 1996 to provide a gender perspective to development activities affecting indigenous peoples in Thailand, IWNT works to advance indigenous women's rights through national and international mechanisms. It also advocates for indigenous women's participation in local government, natural resource management, and other decision making bodies.

TCR's mission is to provide a strategic shift in the protection of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless, and internally displaced persons, to promote more sustainable solutions for these individuals in Thailand and in the broader Southeast Asian region.

It is a group comprised of activists working to support gender equality and gender issues. It works through the Public Forum TEA talk to build capacity and space for youth.