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Nonprofits file FOIA request regarding Trump administration’s decommissioning of national police accountability database
Tags Share Washington, D.C., October 14, 2025 – Earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, National Police Accountability Project, Black Lives Matter, D.C., National Immigration Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Human Rights Data Analysis Group submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about the construction, operation, and…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights to Host the Ethel Kennedy Golf Classic in Hyannis Port
Tags Share NEW YORK, NY, October 7, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights will host its 35th annual golf tournament on Friday, October 17 at the Hyannisport Club in Hyannis Port, MA. Rebranded in honor of its legendary founder, the late Ethel Kennedy, the tournament will raise funds for the organization she founded in…
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Attorneys File Habeas Petition Challenging Unconstitutional Indefinite Detention at Angola’s “Camp 57”
Tags Share BATON ROUGE, LA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Oscar Amaya, an immigrant who has been granted protection from deportation but remains indefinitely detained at Camp 57, the newly opened immigration detention center…
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Longtime NY Resident Released from Louisiana ICE Facility, but Freedom Remains Uncertain
Tags Share NEW ORLEANS – After months of unlawful detention following a federal court order granting her bond, Larysa Kostak has been released from the Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana. However, her freedom remains at risk as the government continues to challenge the ruling that vindicated her constitutional rights. It’s a case with sweeping…
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Habeas Petition Filed Seeking Release of 18-Year-Old with Special Immigration Status Unlawfully Detained in Louisiana ICE Facility
Tags Share Washington, DC – Today, the National Immigration Project, the ACLU of Louisiana, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a habeas petition in federal court seeking the release of 18-year-old Carlos Guerra Leon. Carlos, who just graduated from high school in Spring Valley, New York earlier this year, has approved Special Immigrant Juvenile…
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Stephen Colbert to Receive 2025 Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights
Tags Share New York, NY, September 24, 2025 – Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, today announced that Stephen Colbert, Host, Executive Producer, and Writer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has been named a 2025 Ripple of Hope Award laureate. As one of the most influential satirists of his generation,…
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New report analyzes increasing political repression in Venezuela following 2024 presidential elections
Tags Share Washington, D.C., September 18, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Foro Penal today published a new report outlining patterns of political repression in Venezuela following the July 2024 presidential elections, and the 2025 parliamentary and regional elections. The report, titled Electoral Repression, Enforced Disappearances and Political Control in Venezuela, analyzes how…
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Buffalo Asylum Seeker Sues Trump Admin Over Unconstitutional, Prolonged Detention
Tags Share BUFFALO, NY – In a fight to release Buffalo resident and asylum seeker J. M. A. from unreasonable, prolonged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a habeas petition in the Western District of New York demanding his immediate release.…
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New complaints expose pattern of systemic sexual abuse, harassment, and forced labor at Louisiana ICE facility
Woman and three transgender people come forward regarding abuse at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center
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Immigration advocates denounce U.S. government’s refusal to participate in UN review process
Tags Share New York, NY, September 4, 2025 – Five nonprofit organizations that testified during the United States Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Pre-Session in Geneva last week are denouncing the U.S. government’s unprecedented move to boycott the UPR proceedings. Calling out the United States’ escalating abuse of immigrants and asylum seekers, the nonprofits have pledged…
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Amid increase in anti-Latino violence, attorneys urge international commission to hear years-old murder case
Tags Share New York, NY, August 26, 2025 – Attorneys at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and LatinoJustice PRLDEF last week petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to hear the case of Oswaldo Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant who was murdered in 2008 in a racially-motivated attack by a group of teenagers. In…
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RFK Human Rights Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of John Lewis Young Leaders Program
Tags Share Washington, D.C., August 25, 2025 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced its 2025-2026 cohort for the John Lewis Young Leaders (JLYL) program, a year-long undergraduate fellowship that prepares college students for a future in community organizing and civic engagement. Selected from over 550 applicants, the 2025-2026 class of Fellows includes 16…
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