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Statement by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy on the Supreme Court Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Tags Share New York – Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the first former public defender and Black woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. As a human rights organization dedicated to a more just and equal world, we welcome the expanded perspectives that greater professional and personal diversity can bring to the Court. However,…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Calls on the Biden Administration to Immediately Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon
Tags Share Today, on the National Black Immigrant Advocacy Day of Action, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands alongside our partners at Cameroon Advocacy Network (CAN) to urge President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon. “The Biden…
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United Nations inquiry finds that Egyptian authorities arbitrarily detained Ahmed Samir Santawy
Tags Share The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome the favorable opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finding the Egyptian government arbitrarily detained our client Ahmed Samir Santawy in violation of international human rights law. The Working Group held that the government arbitrarily…
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International Organizations Reject the Criminalization of Judge Pablo Xitumul and Denounce the Persecution of Justice Operators in Guatemala
Tags Share Guatemala City, Geneva and Washington D.C. February 10, 2022 On February 9, 2022, the Supreme Court of Justice declared admissible the request to strip Judge Pablo Xitumul de Paz of his judicial immunity, leaving him vulnerable to impeachment. Pablo Xitumul de Paz is the judge of the First Court of Criminal Sentencing, Drug…
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Organizaciones Internacionales Rechazamos Criminalización del Juez Pablo Xitumul y Denunciamos la Persecución de Operadores de Justicia en Guatemala
Tags Share Ciudad de Guatemala, Ginebra y Washington D.C 10 de febrero de 2022 Ayer, 09 de febrero, la Corte Suprema de Justicia decidió declarar con lugar la solicitud de antejuicio interpuesta contra el juez Pablo Xitumul de Paz, juez del tribunal primero de sentencia penal, narcoactividad y de delitos contra el ambiente, con competencia…
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Bangladesh: Stop Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders and Their Families
Tags Share The Government of Bangladesh must stop reprisals against human rights defenders and their families in its campaign to exculpate perpetrators of human rights abuses, and must ensure they can work in a safe and enabling environment. Coercion, intimidation, and harassment committed by members of the state security and intelligence agencies on those working…
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Egypt: Quash Verdicts and Stop Unfair Trials by Emergency Courts
Tags Share We, the undersigned organizations call on Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi to immediately quash the verdicts against seven arbitrarily detained human rights defenders, activists and politicians, convicted of bogus charges and sentenced to long prison terms in grossly unfair trials by emergency courts solely for peacefully exercising their human rights. The organizations also urge…
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Décision décevante de la Cour africaine, qui refuse de se prononcer sur l’ingérence dangereuse et systématique du gouvernement rwandais dans les activités des organisations de défense des droits humains
Tags Share Selon une succession troublante d’événements liés à la lutte mondiale pour la protection des espaces civiques, la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples (“la Cour africaine”) a finalement refusé d’examiner une affaire contestant la prise de contrôle illégale par l’État rwandais de l’une des dernières organisations indépendantes de défense des…
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In a Disappointing Decision, the African Court Refuses to Address Rwanda’s Dangerous and Systematic Interference with Human Rights Organizations
Tags Share In a troubling turn of events in the global struggle to protect civic spaces, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (“The African Court”) recently declined to hear the merits of a case challenging the illegal takeover by the Rwandan State of one of the last independent human rights organizations in the…
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UN: Ban Abusive Bangladesh Unit from Peacekeeping
Tags Share January 19, 2022 – The United Nations Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s notoriously abusive paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under Secretary General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public today. Human rights organizations have documented widespread RAB abuses. UN human rights experts have also…
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Exigimos justicia por el asesinato de la activista trans Thalía Rodríguez en Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., 11 de enero de 2022] Las organizaciones Red Lésbica Cattrachas y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights repudiamos el asesinato de Thalía Rodríguez, mujer trans y activista de los derechos de las personas LGBTI, ocurrido el día de hoy en su casa ubicada en el cerro Juana Laínez, en Tegucigalpa. Thalía era…
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We demand justice for the murder of trans activist Thalía Rodríguez in Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., January 11, 2022] The organizations Red Lésbica Cattrachas and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemn the murder of Thalía Rodríguez, a trans woman and LGBTI rights activist, which occurred today at her home located on Juana Laínez Hill, in Tegucigalpa. Thalía was a trans woman who dedicated more than 20 years…
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