Quotes & Media Coverage
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Cornell Law School: Immigration Clinic Visits Batavia Detention Center
Tags Share In March 2024, Cornell Law students and faculty from the 1L Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic visited the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, NY, to provide legal assistance to detained immigrants. Partnering with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the NYCLU, and Prisoners’ Legal Services of NY, the team met with detainees to…
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Controversial Canadian Silver Mine ‘Likely’ To Reopen in Guatemala Despite Opposition
Tags Share For years, the Xinka people – an Indigenous nation in Guatemala – have opposed a massive silver mine that threatens their culture and territory. Speaking with BIV and the Pulitzer Center, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens details the Xinka people’s ongoing battle against one of the biggest companies in…
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Trans murder in Honduras
Tags Share In 2009, 26-year-old trans woman and LGBTQ+ rights activist Vicky Hernández was murdered in Honduras during a coup d’etat perpetrated by a right-wing sector of society. For years, the legal team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights fought for accountability in Vicky’s case. In 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a…
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Alexey Navalny Wrote Letters to Kerry Kennedy
Tags Share “He was the Mandela of Russia. He carried forth the vision of accountability…and free expression.” Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, our president Kerry Kennedy reflects on the life and legacy of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Noting Mr. Navalny’s leadership in bolstering civic space, Kerry urges the U.S. – and the world –…
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Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words
Tags Share In the final months of his life, Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny found solace in the words of Robert F. Kennedy and the reminder that a “ripple of hope” can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Read more about Mr. Navalny’s legacy as a human rights leader, and his correspondence…
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Lawyer in the Guillermo Cano case
Tags Share Over three decades after the brutal murder of journalist Guillermo Cano, the government of Colombia has finally accepted responsibility for the lack of justice in Cano’s case and offered a public apology to his family. Speaking with Colombian newspaper El Espectador, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens explains the significance…
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Pressure to shut down Louisiana detention center mounts with release of reported abuses
Tags Share Reckon Media highlights a new report co-authored by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights that documents years of abuse and torture at Winn Correctional Center in Lousiana. Staff attorney Sarah Decker comments on Winn’s history of human rights violations, including abusive use of solitary confinement. “We very frequently see ICE weaponizing solitary confinement,” she…
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Citing history of alleged abuse, groups call on ICE to end contract at former La. prison
Tags Share Speaking with Verite News, our staff attorney Sarah Decker calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to shut down Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana ICE detention center with a long history of violence, abuse and negligence.
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Over 100K sign tipped wage ballot petition
Tags Share The Boston Herald notes Kerry Kennedy’s involvement in a new ballot initiative that seeks to provide a standard minimum wage for tipped workers. Read the full article for more information about the One Fair Wage campaign.
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Full prisons and false charges: Bangladesh opposition faces pre-election crackdown
Tags Share In conversation with The Guardian, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens comments on Bangladesh’s pre-election crackdown on opposition leaders, supporters and activists – almost 10,000 of whom have been arrested after protests broke out against the ruling government.
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UN Slams Biden Immigration Policy As Possible Treaty Breach
Tags Share The UN recently published a report criticizing President Joe Biden’s approach to immigration policy and noting the United States’ violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Speaking with Law360, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez comments on the news. “The Human Rights Committee’s Concluding Observations lay bare…
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2023 Freedom Award ceremony: Stacey Abrams, Kerry Kennedy and Clayborne Carson honored
Tags Share “We no longer want to be a nation in which it is better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.” The Commercial Appeal covers the 2023 Freedom Award ceremony, noting our president Kerry Kennedy’s “rousing speech” and powerful commentary.
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