Tags Share Unjustly deported to Haiti in 2021, RFKHR client and longtime New Yorker Paul Pierrilus is still fighting for a chance to come home. Writing for the USA Today Network, Paul describes his daily struggle to survive in a country torn apart by gang violence, kidnappings, and political instability and pleads with the Biden administration to facilitate…
Tags Share Read the full piece in The Hill here. Last week would have been my father Robert F. Kennedy’s 99th birthday. As attorney general, his career — and enduring legacy — was built on his commitment to the fair, just and equal application of law. Nowhere was this more evident than his efforts to…
Tags Share In Just Security, RFKHR Staff Attorneys Sofìa Jaramillo and Sarah Morsheimer present a new op-ed detailing the significance of the recent decision on Ethiopia’s 2015 elections, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), a body of the African Union. This case, brought by and litigated by RFKHR, is a landmark decision…
Tags Share The original op-ed was published in the New York Daily News on July 24, 2024. Read the original article here. The interrogation room is cramped and windowless. The police officer sitting across from the teenager and his mother begins to read the teen his Miranda rights. The words flow easily, familiar to anyone…
Tags Share There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Everyone may spend varying times in these stages, but each stage is integral, with acceptance being arguably the most important. Except this isn’t about experiencing a close death; it’s about refinding my identity as a Black woman living in an inherently…
Tags Share Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest piece of political theater has unwittingly created a path for leaders to work together on a humane response to the arrival of asylum-seekers in our country. DeSantis set aside $12 million to charter private planes to fly asylum-seekers to remote Northeast towns and now faces a federal class…
Tags Share For Vicky Hernandez’s family and the hundreds of LGBTQ+ activists and allies in Honduras waiting several hours in 100-degree San Pedro Sula, heat was a matter of relativity. On the day Honduran President Xiomara Castro formally claimed responsibility on behalf of the state for Hernandez’s death, it had been almost 13 years since…
Tags Share In Memphis, more children are prosecuted in adult court than in the rest of the state combined. Nearly all of them are Black. On the Fourth of July, our nation celebrates the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But for too many, that promise is not only broken, it is…
Tags Share By Kerry Kennedy and Martin Luther King III As violence and racism – evidenced by the bomb threats received last month at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country – continue unabated, our frustration and anger at the continued ugliness of the “other America” King described plaguing Black and Brown Americans has…
Tags Share For many Americans, the situation in Ukraine may seem as distant as memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the threat of a Cold War knocks at our doors once again, bringing reminders of our childhoods in the 1960s, when schools across the country practiced duck and cover drills and families…
One of sixteen states to outline their plans to use American Rescue Plan funds for prison construction or expansion, Alabama has become the frontline of a national movement for investors to take a firm stance that they will no longer invest in the carceral state.
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