Statement
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Egypt: CFJ, Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, and RFK Human Rights Submit Communication to African Children’s Rights Mechanism
Tags Share The Committee for Justice, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, and RFK Human Rights have submitted a communication to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) on behalf of a 16-year-old Egyptian child (identity withheld) who was unlawfully detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured by Egyptian authorities.
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منظمات لجنة العدالة ومؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان وروبرت ف. كينيدي لحقوق الإنسان تتقدم ببلاغ إلى لجنة الخبراء الأفريقية لحقوق الطفل ورفاهه
Tags Share قدمت لجنة العدالة ومؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان وروبرت ف. كينيدي لحقوق الإنسان بلاغًا إلى لجنة الخبراء الأفريقية لحقوق الطفل ورفاهه، نيابةً عن طفل مصري يبلغ من العمر 16 عامًا (تم حجب هويته)، تعرّض للاعتقال غير القانوني والإخفاء القسري والتعذيب على يد السلطات المصرية. ويُشكّل احتجاز الطفل وتعذيبه انتهاكًا صارخًا لحقوق الطفل بموجب القانون
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Civil Society Organizations strongly condemn the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ Congratulatory Letter to President Paul Biya and the Deepening Crisis of Democracy in Africa
Tags Share We, the undersigned, express our deep concern and disappointment over the recent letter of congratulations purportedly issued in the name of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (‘African Commission’) on 27 October 2025 to President Paul Biya of Cameroon following the disputed elections conducted on 12 October 2025. This letter compromises
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Guapinol: A 2 años de las medidas cautelares de la CIDH, el Estado de Honduras sigue sin garantizar la protección de las personas defensoras
Tags Share A 2 años de que la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) otorgara la Medida Cautelar No. 137-23 a favor de integrantes del Comité Municipal para la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos de Tocoa y el Bufete Justicia para los Pueblos en Honduras, el Estado de Honduras no ha cumplido con
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Guapinol: Two years after the IACHR precautionary measures, the State of Honduras continues to fail to guarantee the protection of human rights defenders
Tags Share Two years after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted Precautionary Measure No. 137-23 on behalf of members of the Comité Municipal para la Defensa de los Bienes Comunes y Públicos de Tocoa (Municipal Committee for the Defense of the Common and Public Goods of Tocoa) and the Bufete Justicia para los
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RFK Human Rights and 2008 Human Rights Laureate Aminatou Haidar express grave concern over the latest UN Security Council resolution on Western Sahara
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and its 2008 Human Rights Award Laureate, Aminatou Haidar, express grave concern about the adoption of the U.S.-sponsored United Nations Security Council Resolution 2797 on October 31. The resolution, which renews the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for another year, openly reflects the
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Cameroon: Authorities Must Desist from Violent Repression of Protests
Tags Share RFK Human Rights strongly condemns the attacks against peaceful protesters in Cameroon following the country’s presidential elections. We call on authorities to refrain from their attacks on their citizens and stress that authorities must act in accordance with their constitutional and international obligations. Further, authorities must investigate all claims of arbitrary detention, excessive
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Tanzania: Authorities Must End Violent Repression and Respect Democratic Principles
Tags Share RFK Human Rights strongly condemns the violent repression of peaceful protestors and the internet shutdown in Tanzania during the ongoing general elections. We call on the Tanzanian authorities to immediately desist from their attacks against demonstrators and respect their constitutional and international human rights obligations to promote peaceful assembly. On October 29, 2025,
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Human Rights Groups Petition UN on Behalf of Prominent Iranian Human Rights Defender Reza Khandan
Tags Share Washington, D.C. / New York / Montreal – October 9, 2025 — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, PEN America, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights have filed a petition and urgent action request with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) over the unlawful imprisonment of Iranian human rights
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Save the International Criminal Court and the Rule of Law
Tags Share Reliable sources indicate that the United States (US) plans to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution in the coming weeks. This follows a series of designations, first against the ICC Prosecutor, Deputy Prosecutors, judges, Palestinian NGOs, and also the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. Now is the
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ECOWAS Court Petition highlights the pervasive challenges faced by women journalists in West Africa
Tags Share Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL) and RFK Human Rights have submitted a petition to the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on behalf of Umu Thoronka, a Sierra Leonean journalist who was unlawfully dismissed from her position at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC)
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Joint Statement: 8 Years On: Accountability needed for Myanmar atrocities against Rohingya
Tags Share August 25, 2025, marks eight years since the Myanmar military and authorities launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Starting in August 2017, Myanmar security forces razed several hundred Rohingya villages and killed Rohingya women, men, and children throughout northern Rakhine State, forcing at least 700,000 to flee to
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