We partnered to combat gender-based violence and to advance LGBTQ+ rights in Honduras. Our work together includes the 2015 case Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras and, more recently, Vicky Hernandez et al. v. Honduras.
We teamed up to file a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to seek precautionary measures to protect Guatemalan mining activist Quelvin Otoniel Jiménez Villalta.
We’ve partnered on litigation to combat the Dominican Republic’s xenophobic and discriminatory policies toward Dominicans of Haitian descent, including the cases of Juliana Deguis Pierre et al. v. Dominican Republic and precautionary measures on behalf of Luisa Fransua, Rafael Toussaint, Juliana Deguis Pierre, and others v. Dominican Republic.
We filed a joint petition to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to secure Mohamed “Abuuja” Abdiwahab Nuur’s release after he was arbitrarily detained for months, enduring torture and being denied access to legal counsel and his family, for publishing an editorial criticizing Somali security forces.
Partnered with RFK Human Rights on a series of workshops focused on mobilizing college students to become “election advocates” through actions that promoted voting by mail.
Partnered with RFK Human Rights for the Titan Generator at SXSW in 2019.
As members of the nationwide One Fair Wage Coalition working nationwide to end subminimum wages, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights takes part in policy advocacy, voter engagement, worker and employer organizing, and culture shift activities to ultimately lift millions of tipped workers out of poverty nationwide and engage them in the political process.
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Compass Investors work with Adasina Social Capital to demand racial justice focused investments with an eye on systemic change.
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