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The 1st of February 2023 marks the second anniversary of military dictatorship in Myanmar. Since the coup, people have suffered under the repressive military rule in a collapsed state. They have experienced daily violation of rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity, murder, sexual violence, and torture. By December 2022, the United Nations estimated that there were 1.5 million displaced people; 34,000 destroyed homes; villages burned to the ground; a looming food crisis; and 140,000 Rohingya in de facto internment…

Art Exhibition “Never Give Up: 2 Years into the Myanmar Coup” will be launched with an event on 28 January 2023, 5.30-7.00 pm at SEA Junction, 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). The discussion with speakers as listed below will look back on the last two years in Myanmar and ahead to the future. Myanmar Artist Aung Zaw, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Irrawaddy Gwen Robinson, Editor-at-large, Nikkei Asian Review and Past President at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of…

Talk and Action on Burma — 2 Years of Atrocity under Military Junta in Myanmar: A Failure of ASEAN and International Community? will be held on 1 February 2023, 5.30-7.30 pm at SEA Junction, 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). It will also be live-stream on Facebook page: SEA-Junction and CPD Thai. Welcome Remark: Rosalia Sciortino, Founder and Executive Director, SEA Junction Laddawan Tantivitayapitak, Chair, Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma Speakers: Thinzar Shunlei Yi, Democracy Advocate…

On 8 February 2023 at 3-4 pm (Bangkok Time), SEA Junction in collaboration with Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) will hold the 27th #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar Monthly Updates. This update series was started soon after the coup d’état in Myanmar with the aim to contribute to a greater understanding of the crisis situation there for informed action in support of the democratic movement in the country and beyond. Since February 2021, Myanmar has been in turmoil as the Myanmar Army, known as…

Once a month, SEA Junction holds a mini book and craft fair focusing on Southeast Asia. For the books, three kinds of books are available: New books given in consignment from recognized publishers with an interest in the countries of Southeast Asia including Silkworm Book and River Book from Thailand, ISEAS from Singapore and Yayasan Pustaka Obor from Indonesia. Special this month, we have many restocked books from NUS Press Singapore and literature books in Thai from Chomromdek. New and…

The 1st of February 2023 marks the second anniversary of military dictatorship in Myanmar. Since the coup, people have suffered under the repressive military rule in a collapsed state. They have experienced daily violation of rights, war crimes and crimes against humanity, murder, sexual violence, and torture. By December 2022, the United Nations estimated that there were 1.5 million displaced people; 34,000 destroyed homes; villages burned to the ground; a looming food crisis; and 140,000 Rohingya in de facto internment…

Art Exhibition “Never Give Up: 2 Years into the Myanmar Coup” – Part II will be launched with a panel discussion “Resistance Art” on 25 February 2023, 5.30-7.00 pm at SEA Junction, 4th floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC). The exhibition is on display from 21 February to 5 March 2023 on the curved wall, 3rd floor of the BACC. Speakers Myanmar Artist Zaw Moe, Country Manager, Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) Thet Swe Win, Executive Director, Synergy Social…

SEA Junction in collaboration with IPSR In-House Seminar and Mahidol Migration Centre (MMC) has launched a series of bi-monthly events entitled ‘Wednesday SEA Mobilities’, starting in February 2022. The last Wednesday of every two months we will jointly hold seminars or panels discussing vast arrays of current Southeast Asia’s mobility issues by experts, academics, practitioners, NGO workers, migrants, and people from the fields. Our next session will be on 1 March 2023 at 12.30-1.30 pm Our next event on 1…