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RFK Human Rights Joins Call for Tanzania to Release Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins with more than one hundred organizations and individuals in urgently calling for the Government of Tanzania to release and drop all charges against 13 lawyers and human rights defenders who were detained on October 20, 2017, after law enforcement agents previously raided a meeting they were attending…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Guatemalan President Decision’s on CICIG
Tags Share (August 28, 2017 | Washington, D.C.) The civil society organizations which join this statement condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision by the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, to declare Ivan Velasquez “persona non grata” and order his immediate expulsion from the country. Velasquez is the Commissioner of CICIG, the International Commission…
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Against a ‘Military Option’ in Venezuela
Attempts to resolve the grave situation currently experienced by Venezuela cannot resort to violence.
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Bending Our Universe Towards Racial Justice
The terrorist attack in Charlottesville on August 12 serves as a sobering reminder that racist attitudes and structural racism are very much part of our world’s current landscape.
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RFK Human Rights Calls for International Access in Venezuela Crisis
It is essential that any negotiations between the government and the opposition include openness to international human rights monitoring and verification.
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Activist Miriam Rodríguez Murdered in Mexico
Tags Share On the night of May 10, which was Mother’s Day in Mexico, Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez, a human rights defender and the mother of a disappeared daughter, was shot to death in the state of Tamaulipas. The undersigned organizations express our profound concern about Miriam’s murder and urge Mexican authorities to take immediate…
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Petitioning the UN on Behalf of Uganda’s Stella Nyanzi
Nyanzi, a leading voice on sexual freedom and women’s rights, has been arbitrarily detained by Ugandan authorities since April 7, 2017.
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Statement by Kerry Kennedy on Aya Hijazi’s Return to the United States
Tags Share Over the last several weeks, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights worked closely with the Trump administration to ensure Aya’s case was prioritized at the highest levels, and we are deeply grateful to President Trump for his personal engagement in resolving Aya’s case. This is day of celebration for Aya Hijazi, Mohamed Hassanein and…
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Release Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla
Tags Share (March 27, 2017 | Washington D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Anti-Torture Initiative at the Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, call for the immediate release of human rights defender Nkongho Felix Agbor-Balla, who has been held in military detention since January 17, 2017. He was…
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Guatemala Must Support Reforms in Favor of Judicial Independence
Tags Share (February 13, 2017, Washington D.C., New York, San José Costa Rica, and Guatemala City). The signatory organizations observe with concern the recent scandals related to influence peddling and manipulation of the elections processes of the Supreme Court of Justice of Guatemala, in which Judges Blanca Stalling and Eddy Orellana are publicly implicated. These…
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RFK Human Rights Calls for Investigation Into Killing of Bangladeshi Journalist
Journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul was covering a violent clash between factions of the Awami League political party when he was shot and killed.
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Bangladesh High Court Resumes Trial Against Odhikar Members
Tags Share (January 18, 2017 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the decision by the Bangladesh High Court Division of the Supreme Court to allow the case against Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan to go forward. Mr. Khan is the Secretary of Odhikar, one of the most respected human rights organizations…
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