Angkhana Neelaphaijit, a former member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award for “championing justice, case after painful case”. She is among five individuals who will be receiving the award in Manila on September 9.

Two former members of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Angkhana Neelaphaijit and Tuanjai Deetes, on Wednesday explained that they had resigned from the NHRC this week over concerns that a change in procedures would restrict the ways they could help vulnerable people.