Our Voices
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Human Rights Groups Petition UN on Behalf of Prominent Iranian Human Rights Defender Reza Khandan
Tags Share Washington, D.C. / New York / Montreal – October 9, 2025 — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, PEN America, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights have filed a petition and urgent action request with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) over the unlawful imprisonment of Iranian human rights…
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U.N. Rohingya Conference Must Spark Concrete Action
Tags Share As the Rohingya community faces compounding crises, this week’s U.N. High-level Conference on the Situation of Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar was held at a critical moment. The Rohingya, who are one of the most persecuted communities in the world, face existential threats, including international crimes by the Myanmar military and…
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The Washington Post: Issues with ICE
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share U.S. Assigned a Specialized Immigration Team to Target Campus Protesters When Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed by masked federal agents outside her Massachusetts home in March, the video of the Turkish graduate student being handcuffed and hustled into an unmarked vehicle spread around the world. A federal trial that ended Tuesday revealed for the first time the…
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The Human Rights Cost of Nuclear Weapons
Tags Share Two decades after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Robert F. Kennedy warned the world about the catastrophic danger of nuclear proliferation. In his 1965 speech addressing the urgent need to control the spread of nuclear weapons, he stated, “…the proliferation of nuclear weapons immensely increases the chances that the world might…
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Advocacy, Education, and Healing: How My Journey Shapes My Capstone
Tags Share My path into education has always been guided by one core commitment: the belief that Black and Brown youth deserve more than the punitive systems society too often imposes on them. Long before I entered the classroom as an educator, I was deeply engaged in social justice and restorative justice advocacy, working alongside…
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Don’t Pull the Ladder: Ending TPS for Cameroonians Now Creates Risk Without a Plan
Tags Share I’m writing as someone who has lived the story we too often file under a tidy word: migration. But there is a difference between choosing to move and being pushed out by violence, state repression, or fear. While both involve a decision about whether to stay or go, one is deliberate and planned;…
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BSS News: CA urges rights groups to increase visits to Bangladesh before nat’l polls
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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United News of Bangladesh: Prof. Yunus urges global rights defenders to monitor Bangladesh before nat’l polls
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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The Business Standard: Certain forces are determined prevent election: CA Yunus to rights groups
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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Time100 Next 2025: Efren Olivares
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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Newsweek: ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
The Trump administration’s agreement with El Salvador to detain alleged criminal gang members has been made public for the first time, as part of a lawsuit challenging the use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA).
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