Quotes & Media Coverage
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The Conversation: Africa’s human rights institutions are electing leaders. Why this matters.
Member states of the African Union (AU) will hold their most consequential election of the year in February 2026, to fill ten vacancies in continental human rights institutions.
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PIX11: Tension Builds in NYC, Washington D.C. after High-Profile ICE Arrests
Tensions are rising in New York City after ICE detained a City Council employee at a routine court hearing, adding to a growing wave of high-profile immigration enforcement actions nationwide. As arrests and protests unfold from Canal Street to Minneapolis, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says the administration is using “every single tool” to enforce U.S.…
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WIVB4: ICE agents will no longer have access to detainees’ mail at Batavia facility
WIVB4 reports that ICE agents working at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia will no longer have access to confidential mail belonging to detainees following a court settlement. The lawsuit was originally brought against the Department of Homeland Security and the Batavia facility following allegations that the facility revised its policy to permit ICE…
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PIX11: What happens after an ICE arrest?
Speaking with PIX11, our Vice President of Advocacy and Litigation, Anthony Enriquez, explains the systems of abuse and power that underlie ICE arrests. Enriquez explains that when people are arrested and processed, they are often moved, and “that power is abused to punish people.” “What we really need to do is take a hard look…
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Prensa Libre: Guatemala apologizes for the forced disappearance of 4 indigenous activists in 1989
Decades after the Guatemalan government forcibly disappeared four indigenous human rights defenders, the country has offered a public apology to the victims’ families. Speaking in a ceremony on December 12, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, apologized and acknowledged that the Guatemalan state failed to fulfill its obligations to investigate, prosecute, and punish those responsible.…
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El Paìs: Arévalo apologizes for the forced disappearances during Guatemala’s Civil War
Partnering with CERJ, the Kennedy Human Rights Center represented four forcibly disappeared indigenous human rights defenders in Guatemala. After the November 2024 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the government responsible, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, offered public apologies during a formal ceremony in December 2025. El Paìs reports that the…
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AP News: Guatemalan state accepts responsibility for the disappearance of four human rights activists.
Decades after the Guatemalan government forcibly disappeared four indigenous human rights defenders, the country has offered a public apology to the victims’ families. AP News reported that the forced disappearances occurred during an armed conflict from 1960 to 1996, where the State physically aimed to eliminate those identified as “internal enemies.”
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Slate: ICE Has a New Foe: Miscarrying Women in Trump DHS Custody
Referencing a newly-released letter from the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center and other advocacy groups, Slate details chilling accounts of medical neglect and abuse endured by pregnant and postpartum women in ICE detention
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The Guardian: Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
A new investigation reveals that the Department of Homeland Security’s internal civil rights watchdog system has been dismantled to the point of near-collapse, just as the Trump administration accelerates aggressive immigration enforcement.
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The Independent: Miscarriages, infections, neglect: The pregnant women detained by ICE
Referencing a recent report from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and partner organizations, The Independent details medical neglect and harrowing abuses against pregnant women inside ICE detention
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