Statement
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Honduras: Judicial Delay Violates Access to Justice in “Gualcarque Fraud” Case
Tags Share Europe/The Americas, December 1, 2022.- The national and international organizations that make up the Expert Observation Mission in the Berta Cáceres Case call on the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras to promptly resolve the consultation on the amparo action that has suspended the trial in the process for…
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Honduras: Retraso judicial vulnera acceso a la justicia en caso “Fraude sobre el Gualcarque”
Tags Share Europa/Las Américas, 1 de diciembre de de 2022.- Las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales que componen la Misión de Observación Calificada en la Causa Berta Cáceres, llaman a la Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia a decidir prontamente la consulta sobre la acción de amparo que suspende el juicio oral…
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Zimbabwe: President Mnangagwa-led Government Must Stop Targeting and Stigmatizing Civil Society Organizations
Tags Share As leading human rights and legal aid organizations, we urge the government of Zimbabwe to desist from targeting and negatively profiling civil society organizations, which provide invaluable services to the people of Zimbabwe and play a vital role in ensuring good governance in the country. All persons have a right to freedom of…
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RFK Human Rights Submits Communication to UN Human Rights Committee for Ugandan Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has submitted a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee for the case of exiled Ugandan award-winning novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. Rukirabashaija is a renowned novelist who was thrice arbitrarily arrested, detained, and tortured by Ugandan state security forces for his writings criticizing President Yoweri Museveni, his son, and…
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Brazil: Civil Society Organizations Denounce Human Rights Violations of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Tags Share Brasilia, Washington D.C.October 28, 2022 As the context for indigenous peoples in Brazil is increasingly hostile and adverse as the State continues to direct efforts to infringe on their territorial rights threaten the legitimate and safe occupancy of their territories, the organizations Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB), Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas…
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Brasil: Organizações da Sociedade Civil Denunciam ante a Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos as Violações Contra os Direitos Humanos dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil
Tags Share Brasilia, Washington D.C.28 de Outubro 2022. O contexto para os povos indígenas no Brasil é cada vez mais hostil e adverso, na medida em que o Estado direciona esforços para violar seus direitos territoriais por meio de medidas fáticas e jurídicas que ameaçam a habitação legítima e segura de seus territórios. Além disso,…
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Brasil: Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil Denuncian Violaciones a los Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas en Brasil ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
Tags Share Brasilia, Washington D.C. 28 de octubre de 2022. El contexto para los pueblos indígenas en Brasil es cada vez más hostil y adverso en la medida en la que el Estado dirige esfuerzos para infringir sus derechos territoriales a través de medidas fácticas y legales que amenazan la habitación legítima y segura de…
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Chadian Authorities must desist from attacking human rights defenders and critical voices
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the International Service for Human Rights strongly condemn the attacks on pro-democracy protesters by Chadian security forces resulting in the death of over 50 people and injuring hundreds. We urge the transitional authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure the respect for human rights in Chad…
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Guatemala: Organizaciones Internacionales Denuncian Violaciones Al Derecho De Defensa Y Debido Proceso En Casos De Abogados Y Abogadas Defensoras De Derechos Humanos
Tags Share Ciudad de Quebec, Washington D.C, La Haya, San José, y Ciudad de Guatemala, 25 de octubre de 2022. En los últimos meses, hemos observado violaciones al debido proceso en casos de abogados y abogadas defensoras de derechos humanos, incluyendo intimidaciones, denuncias penales y administrativas manifiestamente infundadas. El caso de la abogada Leyli Santizo…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights demands immediate release of Somali journalist and human rights defender Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, Somali journalist, human rights activist, and Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and urges Somali authorities to immediately release him and end all harassment, intimidation, threats, and violence against journalists and civil society activists in…
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A debt is still owed to Dominicans of Haitian descent 9 years after the ruling that left them largely stateless
Tags Share In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued judgment 168-13, which retroactively took away the right to nationality from Dominicans of Haitian descent. In the nine years since, statelessness in the country has only grown more complex, leaving countless Dominicans of Haitian descent without access to nationality documents. Far from just…
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Se mantiene deuda con personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana, a nueve años de la sentencia que las desnacionalizó masivamente
Tags Share En el año 2013, el Tribunal Constitucional de la República Dominicana emitió la Sentencia 168-13, que eliminó de manera retroactiva el derecho a la nacionalidad a personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana. En los nueve años transcurridos desde esta decisión, el problema de la apatridia se ha vuelto más complejo, dejando a innumerables dominicanos…
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