📌NEW: Thai poultry company #Thammakaset filed an appeal against last year’s court verdict acquitting three women human rights defenders of criminal defamation.

🇹🇭 Thailand must protect HRDs from judicial harassment, says Fortify Rights. 🧵1/3

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อัพเดท: บริษัทฟาร์มไก่ #ธรรมเกษตร อุทธรณ์คำสั่งศาลอาญาเมื่อปี 2566 ซึ่งสั่งยกฟ้องสามผู้หญิงนักสิทธิฯ ในคดีหมิ่นประมาททางอาญา ประเทศไทยควรปกป้องนักสิทธิมนุษยชนจากการคุกคามด้วยกระบวนการยุติธรรม Fortify Rights กล่าว
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Thai PM Srettha Srettha Thavisin “must order an end to the raids” against refugees, & recognize that continuing close relations with Phnom Penh “should not come at the expense of vulnerable refugees who are fleeing #Cambodia .” Human Rights Watch UNHCR Asia Pacific ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา Prayut Chan-o-cha

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Tomorrow, the “Independent Museums and Archives” exhibition opens at 1 p.m. at The Fort

At 4 p.m., join the panel, featuring:
-The Deep South Museum & Archives
-The October 6 Museum Project
-The Museum of Popular History
-Thai Rainbow Archive Project
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Important & timely report by Human Rights Watch & Caleb Quinley on #Thailand ’s transnational repression and forced returns of refugees. Exiled dissidents and activists, including many Cambodians, have faced intimidation and harassment, surveillance, & physical violence. hrw.org/feature/2024/0…

Zoreena's daughter walked 11 days, then gave birth ALONE in no man's land. This is the horrific reality for #Rohingya women fleeing persecution genocide in 2017. Her story is one of countless struggles the Rohingya faced. This is just one example of the Rohingya's plight.

“Ukraine is the first country in the world to investigate war crimes against the environment and ensure accountability for them within its national jurisdiction,” writes #Ukraine Prosecutor General ⁦Andriy Kostin⁩. #Russia must be held accountable. kyivpost.com/opinion/31746

Every crime committed by Russia against Ukraine and Ukrainians must be thoroughly documented, and perpetrators must be held accountable. This was the focus of a meeting of the Coordination Headquarters on the cooperation of law enforcement and other state authorities in

“To hope is to risk frustration,” wrote Thomas Merton. “Therefore, make up your mind to risk frustration.” This quote came to mind reading Nicholas Kristof on hope. Hope can make us healthier, happier, resilient — and more effective. Good to practice hope. nytimes.com/2024/05/09/opi…

Responding to Fortify Rights research on how BGB beat + pushed back refugees, BGB Director General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui told BenarNews 'There was no incident of torture or beating. This allegation is completely false.”

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It’s one thing to criticize the ICC or continue to reject it, but to threaten the court and its staff in defense of Israel is outlandish and disgusting.

Now out, a powerful & deeply moving podcast on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) in times of conflict, hosted by the incomparable Michele Goodwin Ms. Magazine

Co-hosted by O'Neill Institute Physicians for Human Rights

We discuss #GazaWar #UkraineWar Syria's civil war...

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Grateful for the opportunity to meet Kamal Uddin Ahmed chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh 🇧🇩.

We discussed durable solutions and ensuring rights for #Rohingya refugees.

Fortify Rights in Dhaka.

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New Study Co-Authored by Lowenstein Clinic Finds Mental Harm Inflicted on Myanmar’s Rohingya a Form of Genocide Yale Law School Fortify Rights law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…

Crimes against the environment are crimes against our future. This is why, 18 months ago, our team began to address war-related environmental damage & raise international awareness of these issues. Reflected on our progress in an op-ed for KyivPost: bit.ly/4betke2

A new study by Fortify Rights and Yale Law School finds that severe post-traumatic stress disorder and depression caused by Myanmar military-led attacks constitute acts of genocide under the Genocide Convention, Dhaka Tribune reports. dhakatribune.com/world/asia/344…