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Ensuring #Rights4All by investigating violations 🔍, engaging people with power 🤝, and strengthening human rights defenders and communities 💪. https://www.fortifyrights.org/
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🇲🇲 Fortify Rights's investigation reveals the Arakan Army (AA) committed war crimes against Rohingya civilians, including abductions, torture, killings, and beheadings, in areas under their control in Rakhine State.
The Int'l Criminal Court should investigate AA’s war crimes.
bit.ly/WarCrimesbyAA
🇹🇭🇰🇭 Fortify Rights’s investigation found that Cambodian forces fired unguided “Grad” rockets into civilian areas, and calls on the U.N. to establish independent Fact-Finding Mission to investigate.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Fortify Rights’s investigation in May found that Myanmar junta intensified its airstrikes on civilians, schools, and religious sites despite a ceasefire.
The int'l community should urgently impose jet fuel sanctions to the junta to end these atrocities.
www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2025...
Myanmar 🇲🇲
Myanmar Now reports that 15 people were killed by a Myanmar junta airstrike on a makeshift hospital in Sagaing Region.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/15-k...
🇹🇭In Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, a displaced person took his own life near a shelter after saying he wanted to go home, Matichon reports.
A tragic reminder that armed conflict inflicts not only physical harm but also psychological wounds on those affected.
www.matichon.co.th/local/news_5...
“India is targeting its Muslim citizens and refugees with a discriminatory campaign …” said John Quinley, Director at Fortify Rights. “These actions not only violate international human rights law, but deepen the dangerous marginalization of Muslims and refugees in India.”
bit.ly/IndiaEndExpulsion
Indian authorities have intensified their “illegal immigrant” verification campaign, arbitrarily arresting, detaining, torturing, & expelling Indian Muslim citizens & Rohingya refugees. The Indian Government should immediately end its unlawful campaign of expulsion.
bit.ly/IndiaEndExpulsion
🇧🇩 One year ago, the people of Bangladesh led the Monsoon Revolution, ending over a decade of authoritarian rule.
As the country moves forward, the interim gov't should ensure accountability for protest-related killings, violence & enforced disappearances under the former regime.
bit.ly/BGLprotests
“Establishing the facts is the first step toward accountability, and it is only through accountability that we can ensure justice for victims and survivors, and stronger compliance with international law in the future," said Peter Bouckaert, Senior Director at Fortify Rights.
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Fortify Rights calls on the U.N. to establish an independent Fact-Finding Mission to investigate potential war crimes in Thai-Cambodia border conflict. New research reveals evidence of the indiscriminate use of force during a Cambodian armed forces attack on Thai border provinces.
shorturl.at/eIiJ5
Up to 10,000 civilians are reportedly trapped in Pekhon Township, on the Shan–Karenni border, as fighting escalates between junta and resistance forces in Myanmar. Many are unable to flee and urgently need evacuation + humanitarian support.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/thou...
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Human Rights Watch finds that the Arakan Army has imposed severe restrictions and committed grave abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine State.
“Life under the Arakan Army’s control was incredibly restrictive,” a Rohingya refugee said after fleeing to Bangladesh.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
As Thai and Cambodian forces clash along the border, Fortify Rights’s Patrick Phongsathorn speaks with The Sun on the conflict situation and the path to accountability for possible war crimes.
Full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A65u...
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော် (AA) ထိန်းချုပ်နယ်မြေများရှိ ယာယီထိန်းသိမ်းရေးစခန်းများနှင့် ကျေးရွာများတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သော စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို နိုင်ငံတကာ ရာဇဝတ်ခုံရုံး(ICC)က စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရန် Fortify Rights မှ တောင်းဆိုထားသည်။
myanmar-now.org/mm/news/6540...
Clashes between Thai & Cambodian troops have reportedly injured & displaced civilians, & damaged civilian infrastructure.
Fortify Rights calls on both sides to protect civilians & avoid attacks that can cause civilian deaths, injuries, or destruction of civilian infrastructure.
shorturl.at/qbrcC
Myanmar 🇲🇲
The Daily Star covers recent investigation by Fortify Rights of war crimes committed by the Arakan Army, including abductions, torture, killings, and beheadings of Rohingya civilians in ad-hoc detention centres and villages under its control.
www.thedailystar.net/news/banglad...
"ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော်အနေဖြင့် တရားဝင်တော်လှန်ရေး လက်နက်ကိုင်တပ်ဖွဲ့အဖြစ် အသိအမှတ်ပြုခံချင်တယ်ဆိုရင်တော့ နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေကို လေးစားလိုက်နာဖို့၊ အရပ်သားများကို ကာကွယ်ပေးဖို့နဲ့ ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် ရက်စက်ကြမ်းကြုတ်မှုတွေအတွက် တာဝန်ယူဖို့ လိုအပ်ပါတယ်" ဟု Fortify Rights မှ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးဆိုင်ရာ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး အထူးတာဝန်ခံ Ejaz Min Khant က ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။
သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် အပြည့်အစုံ - bit.ly/WarCrimesAA
ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော် (AA)မှ ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရပ်သားများအား ပြန်ပေးဆွဲခြင်း၊ ညှဉ်းပန်းနှိပ်စက်ခြင်း၊ သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်းနှင့် ခေါင်းဖြတ်သတ်ဖြတ်ခြင်း အပါအဝင် ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့သည့် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကို နိုင်ငံတကာရာဇဝတ်ခုံရုံး (ICC) က စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးသင့်ကြောင်း Fortify Rights က ယနေ့ ပြောကြားသည်။
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သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် - Fortify Rights ၏ စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးမှုအသစ်တစ်ခုတွင် ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်တော် (AA) သည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် ၎င်းထိန်းချုပ်ထားသည့်ဒေသများရှိ ယာယီထိန်းသိမ်းရေးစခန်းများနှင့် ကျေးရွာများတွင် ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရပ်သားများအပေါ် စစ်ဥပဒေများကို ပြောင်ပြောင်တင်းတင်း ချိုးဖောက်နေကြောင်း တွေ့ရှိရသည်။
သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် အပြည့်အစုံ - bit.ly/WarCrimesAA
3/3 “If the Arakan Army wants to be seen as a legitimate revolutionary armed force, it must respect international law, protect civilians, and be held accountable for the atrocities it has committed,” said Ejaz Min Khant, Human Rights Specialist at Fortify Rights.
bit.ly/WarCrimesbyAA.
2/3 The International Criminal Court should investigate AA’s war crimes, including abductions, torture, killings, and beheadings of Rohingya civilians, Fortify Rights said today.
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🇲🇲 NEW: A new investigation by Fortify Rights finds that the Arakan Army (AA) has committed serious violations of the laws of war against Rohingya civilians in ad-hoc detention centers and villages under its control in Rakhine State. 1/3
Read the full news release: bit.ly/WarCrimesbyAA
In 2022, Fortify Rights and the Yale Schell Center published a joint report exposes how the Myanmar military junta murdered, imprisoned, and tortured peaceful protesters, political leaders, and other civilians throughout the country.
www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-rep-...
🚨Two political prisoners in Myanmar have reportedly died in jail due to medical neglect, on July 20. This is part of a broader pattern of abuse by the junta against detainees.
All political prisoners must be immediately and unconditionally released.
www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/2...
🇺🇦 Thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted and forcibly taken to Russia, since Russia’s invasion in 2022, TIME reports.
President Zelensky urges world leaders to pressure Putin to return the children and hold perpetrators accountable.
time.com/7302345/ukra...
Fortify Rights recently issued a news release on the increasing Russian drone and missile attacks.
www.fortifyrights.org/ukr-inv-2025...
Russia launched massive overnight airstrikes across Ukraine, hitting Kyiv with drones and missiles and killing at least one person.
Over the past two months, Russia has reportedly carried out drone attacks in Ukraine almost daily, with 741 aerial strikes reported in July 9 alone.
shorturl.at/qzRhY
In March 2025, Fortify Rights released a report detailing gaps in Thailand’s justice system, advocating for Thailand to strengthen its domestic violence laws and ensure protection for survivors.
Read the report: bit.ly/ThaiDV
