Statement
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Bangladesh Abandons Baseless Investigation Into Odhikar
Tags Share (June 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomes the decision by the Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to abandon its groundless investigation into Odhikar, one of the most prominent, independent human rights organizations in Bangladesh. Last month, the ACC made completely untrue allegations against Odhikar and opened an investigation into…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Harassment of Adilur Rahman Khan
Tags Share (May 31, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns Bangladesh’s most recent harassment of 2014 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Laureate Adilur Rahman Khan and his organization Odhikar. The Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh (ACC) is baselessly accusing Odhikar of money laundering. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights believes that…
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Supporting New York Farmworkers’ Right to Organize
Tags Share (New York | May 11, 2016) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights applauds yesterday’s filing of a case by the New York Civil Liberties Union to challenge discriminatory exceptions to New York labor law denying farmworkers the right to organize under New York’s Constitution. The NYCLU’s constitutional challenge was also endorsed by Governor Andrew…
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Egypt on Wrong Side of Law With Arrest of Malek Adly
“The arrest of Malek Adly is yet another indication of the outrageous lengths that the Egyptian government will go to silence independent voices, especially those who are standing up for human rights,” says Kerry Kennedy.
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Need for Human Rights Monitoring Mechanism in Western Sahara
Tags Share (April 29, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomes the Security Council’s decision to reauthorize the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and calls for the mission’s restoration to full functionality. However, the mandate shamefully continues to lack a human rights monitoring and…
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Security Council Must Pass Strong Western Sahara Peacekeeping Mandate
Tags Share (April 28, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights calls on members of the United Nations Security Council to pass a strong mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), including a human rights monitoring and reporting mechanism. The Security Council must vote to extend the…
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Egypt Must Allow Its Civil Society to Flourish
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) condemn the actions of the Egyptian government taken to suppress peaceful protests planned for April 25 across Egypt, including government raids on the homes of activists and human rights defenders, arbitrary arrests, and the violent dispersal of protests by…
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Journalist Zelalem Workagegnehu Found Guilty Under Anti-Terror Law
Tags Share The Federal High Court Lideta 19 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, found blogger, journalist, and activist Zelalem Workagegnehu guilty under Article 7(1) of Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation on April 15, 2016. Though Zelalem denied his affiliations with any political party and believed in non-violent change, his charges and conviction under Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism laws are consistent…
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RFK Human Rights Welcomes Release of Mahmoud Hussein
Mahmoud was released on bail after being arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and unlawfully detained for 789 days.
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Egyptian Government Continues Unjust Crackdown on Civil Society
Tags Share (March 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the Egyptian government’s escalating attempts to silence the country’s civil society, as the government moves to reopen Case No. 173/2011, popularly known as the “foreign funding case.” The first phase of the case resulted in 43 staff of international non-governmental organizations…
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Russia: Stop Crackdown on Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share (March 18, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) A Moscow district court yesterday fined the Public Verdict Foundation human rights organization 400,000 rubles for refusing a Russian government demand that its publications acknowledge it is a “foreign agent.” Public Verdict will appeal the decision. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights urges the government to dismiss the…
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Rwanda Restricting Access to African Human Rights Court
Tags Share March 17, 2016 – Today Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined a group of 40 leading African and international human rights organizations in a joint statement criticizing the government of the Republic of Rwanda for withdrawing individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – the highest human rights tribunal…
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