Amy A. Smith

🎉 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!! 🎉 youtu.be/O9ouS-XvFqw

#Ukraine @FortifyRights

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?

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

Nationwide air-raid alerts happening now throughout #Ukraine w/ reports of #Russian missiles en route. Seems to be a repeat of yesterday. Many people gathering calmly in appointed shelters, including this one in #Lviv w/ makeshift sofas and even coffee.

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.

32 years since the #8888Uprising, and the people of Myanmar are still fighting for freedom of expression and assembly #FOE #FOA.

On #WorldRefugeeDay, @FortifyRights visits Rohmad Ruengprat, who supports #refugees in Thailand with food, support, and a place to turn. He is an #EverydayRights hero. 🙌🏼🏡

Hi all, my WhatsApp has a security breach. So please don’t respond to any messages you get from my number until further notice.

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/Our_…

“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-2020-0…

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/…

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/…

#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. mailchi.mp/fortifyrights/…

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/regist…

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/…

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

Jirawut Uaesungkomsate is a #Thai artist raising awareness of #refugees through virtual reality — check out his latest work here. Developed with @AmnestyThailand

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.

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.