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Egypt: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Welcomes the Release of Ahmed Samir Santawy
Tags Share Egyptian researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy was finally released from prison on July 30, 2022 after a presidential pardon was issued. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is elated to see Santawy finally released, although he should have never been imprisoned and convicted in the first place. This pardon comes after an Egyptian State Security…
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Myanmar: We Condemn The Executions of Pro-Democracy Activists
Tags Share Myanmar’s military junta announced July 25 it had executed four pro-democracy activists: Kyaw Min Yu (also known as Ko Jimmy), Phyo Zeya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw. These are the first executions in Myanmar in more than three decades. Their executions follow a series of politically motivated trials in secretive…
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Kerry Kennedy: Demanding Accountability for the Human Rights Abuses at Del Rio, Texas
Tags Share Over the weekend, the Border Patrol released a 500-page report on its official investigation into the humanitarian catastrophe that occurred at Del Rio, Texas in September 2021, when over 15,000 Haitian and other Black immigrants huddled at a makeshift encampment, seeking asylum. Officials must have hoped that no one would notice that their…
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Victory for Online Expression in Nigeria
Tags Share In a victory for freedom of expression, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice delivered a pivotal decision in the cases filed by the Social Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP) & other organizations including Media Rights Agenda and Media Defence challenging the Nigerian government’s Twitter ban. The suit…
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New Amicus Brief on Freedom of Expression and Association in Brazil
Tags Share On July 13, 2022, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Odhikar, the National Union of Institutions for Social Action Work (UNITAS), Kazakhstan International Bureau For Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR), the International Service for Human Rights, Institute for Human Rights and Development…
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Nuevo Amicus Curiae sobre la Libertad de Expresión y Asociación en Brasil
Tags Share En julio 13 de 2022, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, en colaboración con el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad de Pretoria, Odhikar, la Unión Nacional de Instituciones para el Trabajo de Acción Social (UNITAS), la Oficina Internacional de Kazajstán para los Derechos Humanos y el Estado de Derecho (KIBHR), el Servicio…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns the Resentencing of Egyptian Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy and Calls for His Immediate Release
Tags Share On July 4, 2022, an Egyptian State Security Emergency Misdemeanor Court again sentenced researcher and academic Ahmed Samir Santawy to three years in prison on unfounded charges of “spreading false news.” We at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly call on President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and the Egyptian government to end the continuing…
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Statement From RFKHR President Kerry Kennedy on Roe v. Wade Decision
Tags Share The decision by extremist justices on the U.S. Supreme Court today to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the constitutional right to abortion is, without question, a terrible strike against human rights in the United States and beyond. It will permit legislators to intrude on the most private of medical decisions and eliminate…
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Bangladesh: Stop Punishing Human Rights Work
Tags Share Bangladeshi authorities should immediately reverse their decision to deregister prominent human rights organization, Odhikar, eleven organizations said today. Human rights defenders should be allowed to conduct their work without fear of reprisals, intimidation, and harassment from the authorities. On June 5, 2022, Bangladesh’s Non-Governmental Organization Affairs Bureau sent a letter to Odhikar, denying…
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Statement on leaked SCOTUS opinion overturning Roe v. Wade
Tags Share We at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights join the rightful growing chorus of outrage over the pending reversal of Roe v. Wade. The draft Supreme Court opinion would overturn a longstanding right to abortion and represents a grave threat to human rights in the United States. A decision that unduly restricts access to…
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Bangladesh: Restore and strengthen capacity of community-led schools in Rohingya camps
Tags Share Bangladesh’s government must urgently take steps to support the community-led learning facilities in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar and strengthen their resources in line with the country’s international commitment to protect children’s right to education, 25 undersigned organizations said in a statement today. About 30 community-led schools have been shut down…
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Pronunciamiento de organizaciones de sociedad civil sobre Oficina Descentralizada de la Fiscalía de la CPI en Caracas
Tags Share [Caracas/Washington D.C. Ginebra, 12 de abril, 2022] Las organizaciones de derechos humanos firmantes saludamos el reciente anuncio del Fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional, Karim A.A. Khan, sobre el establecimiento de una oficina descentralizada de la Fiscalía de la CPI en Caracas, y que la misma trabajará de manera conjunta con importantes aliados…
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