Executive Director of @FortifyRights. Working for #humanrights. Focus on #SoutheastAsia.
Joined August 2011
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10 Dec 2022
🎉 The President of Taiwan and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy today (International Human Rights Day) announced that Fortify Rights is the recipient of the 2022 Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award!! 🎉
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20 Oct 2022
Shameful that @UNHCRAsia is lending its legitimacy to this deeply illegitimate and brutal regime - and for what ends? Does @Refugees really think that doing a deal with the SAC will buy them increased humanitarian access? Or is it all about courting donors?
20 Oct 2022
UNHCR is now the 5th UN agency to meet publicly with the Myanmar junta as reported in the Global New Light - see below. These are tough operational decisions, but this is likely to lead to yet further backlash from civil society in Myanmar. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Ukraine's President Zelensky says 30% of the country's power stations have been destroyed in Russia's latest round of attacks cnn.it/3MDivXY
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
10 Oct 2022
The Kremlin’s strikes in Ukraine today hit non-military targets and killed civilians. They demonstrate again who is in the right and who is in the wrong. To the people of Ukraine: The United States stands with you.
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
8 Aug 2020
32 years since the #8888Uprising, and the people of Myanmar are still fighting for freedom of expression and assembly #FOE #FOA.
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20 Jun 2020
On #WorldRefugeeDay,
@FortifyRights visits Rohmad Ruengprat, who supports #refugees in Thailand with food, support, and a place to turn. He is an #EverydayRights hero. 🙌🏼🏡
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
9 Jun 2020
Hi all, my WhatsApp has a security breach. So please don’t respond to any messages you get from my number until further notice.
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23 Apr 2020
Hot off the "virtual" presses! Download the new @athan_info FortifyRights report documenting protest restrictions, torture in detention, lack of remedies for former political prisoners. Read & Share: fortifyrights.org/downloads/…
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
21 Apr 2020
“Allowing businesses to use judicial harassment to threaten critics & monitors harms not only those involved but all of society.
Thailand’s business community should be concerned about the negative reputational effects of this.” @AmyAlexSmith
More 👉
fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-20…
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21 Apr 2020
Thai chicken co Thammakaset targets another woman human rights defender. When will this end? @KwanSaleepholT is the 7th #WHRD & 22nd HRD to face spurious charges for innocuous tweets/retweets. mailchi.mp/fortifyrights/dis…
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21 Apr 2020
Today, #Myanmar activists wear blue-the color of prison uniforms-to remember political prisoners. #BlueShirtDay What is the situ of political prisoners today? Stay tuned for @athan_info @FortifyRights new report coming out this Thurs. Register here: mailchi.mp/fortifyrights/med…
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
21 Apr 2020
#Myanmar: Join @athan_info and @FortifyRights on April 23 for the joint report launch of “Our Demands are for All Students." Hear from @Chaungalay, @thinzashunleiyi, @BogartJacob, and @AmyAlexSmith. With powerful photographs from @hkun_lat.
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
21 Apr 2020
Tune in this Thurs, Apr 23 at 10am Myanmar Time for @athan_info & @FortifyRights virtual press conference & report launch on protest restrictions, torture in prison. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
21 Apr 2020
Controversial Thai chicken company Thammakaset files new complaint against another woman human rights defender. Thanaporn Saleephol is the 7th woman #HRD to face charges for exercising rights since 2018. #EndSLAPP mailchi.mp/fortifyrights/dis…
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
11 Mar 2020
Team @FortifyRights, @forum_asia, & others along w members of the diplomatic community stand with Nan Win, a human rights defender from Myanmar facing spurious criminal charges in Thailand. #EndSLAPP
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
12 Mar 2020
Jirawut Uaesungkomsate is a #Thai artist raising awareness of #refugees through virtual reality — check out his latest work here. Developed with @AmnestyThailand
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11 Mar 2020
In Solidarity with @AngkhanaNee and other relatives of victims of enforced disappearance in #Thailand and around the world. 16 years since lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit’s disappearance, but his memory lives on. Crucial to implement national law without delay.
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Amy A. Smith retweeted
11 Mar 2020
Today, the trial against Nan Win, a human rights defender from Myanmar, opened today in Thailand's Saraburi Provincial Court. He is facing spurious criminal charges brought by the Thai poultry company, Thammakaset.
Thai authorities should drop his case & #EndSLAPP.
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