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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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Statement by civil society organizations on the Decentralized Office of the ICC Prosecutor in Caracas
Tags Share [Caracas/Washington D.C. Geneva, April 12, 2022] The undersigned human rights organizations welcome the recent announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan, on the establishment of a decentralized office of the ICC Prosecutor’s Office in Caracas, and the declaration that the Office will work jointly with important international allies.…
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Bangladesh: Stop Reprisals Against Victims, Activists
Tags Share Bangladesh authorities have responded to US Treasury Department sanctions on the notoriously abusive Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) by retaliating against victims’ relatives, human rights defenders and their families, and human rights organizations, twelve organizations said today. The US imposed the sanctions on the paramilitary unit and several of its current and former officials…
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UN Confirms that Rwandan Authorities Abducted and Are Arbitrarily Detaining Paul Rusesabagina
Tags Share Following a petition filed by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in March 2021, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) found that the Rwandan government abducted and has arbitrarily detained the Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina for over 20 months. Requesting his immediate, unconditional release and an independent investigation of his…
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Constitutional Court of Guatemala to Rule on the Swearing In of Magistrate Gloria Porras
Tags Share Guatemala City, Geneva, Washington D.C. March 21, 2022 The international organizations that make up the International Observatory on Guatemala express grave concerns regarding news that today, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala will be hearing an amparo (a legal protective mechanism) related to the swearing in of Gloria Porras. Porras was reelected in April…
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Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala decidirá sobre juramentación de la magistrada Gloria Porras
Tags Share Ciudad de Guatemala, Ginebra y Washington D.C. 21 de marzo de 2022 Las organizaciones que conformamos el Observatorio internacional sobre los derechos humanos en Guatemala vemos con preocupación que, según medios de comunicación, el día de hoy la Corte de Constitucionalidad estaría conociendo un amparo relacionado a la juramentación de la magistrada electa…
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U.S. sanctions must avoid harming the free flow of information in Russia
Tags Share President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 March 10, 2022 Dear President Biden, The signatories to this letter deplore Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, condemn in the strongest possible terms the grave violations committed by Russian forces there, and applaud efforts by the Biden Administration and…
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Civil society organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop the case of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy and release him immediately
Tags Share 14 March 2022 Today, the Egyptian Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) will hold a second session in the retrial of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy.* The undersigned organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop this case and release Santawy immediately. In June 2021, the ESSC sentenced Santawy to a four year prison sentence on…
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