Matthew Smith
@matthewfsmith
Founder & CEO @FortifyRights. We investigate human rights violations, engage people w/ power, & strengthen HRDs. Fellow at Harvard's @CarrCenter '19-20.
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http://fortifyrights.org 07-05-2009 10:32:13
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If you work in the Department of State for Secretary Antony Blinken and care about international law, it is hard for me to understand how you continue in your position if the Biden admin follows though on this response (which also happens to completely undermine US interests). Int'l Criminal Court
'This is an indiscriminate, targeting and an elimination of human life.' Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan speaks to Zeteo contributor fatima bhutto in 'The Exchange' about the horrors she's witnessed while working as a pediatric intensive care doctor in Gaza. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/gaza-doctors…
📌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
fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2024-0…
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
cambojanews.com/cambodian-refu…
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…
“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…
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...
msmagazine.com/series/on-the-…