Our Voices
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Human Rights Defender Spotlight: Darrick Hamilton and Dr. Helen Bond
Tags Share Darrick Hamilton: Economic Rights What are Economic Rights? Economic rights are human rights that relate to the workplace, social security and access to housing, food, water, healthcare and education. They include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to adequate protection in the event of unemployment, sickness or old age;…
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Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Tags Share The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948 as a result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the creation of the United Nations, the international community vowed to never again allow atrocities like those of…
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Report reveals continued horrific practices at ICE jail in Louisiana, demands closure
Tags Share An ICE jail in Louisiana operated by a private prison company remains at full capacity, even after government investigators decried its abusive culture and the Biden Administration pledged to seriously reduce its population. Hoping to change that course, a group of human rights organizations have released a report detailing the Winn Correctional Center’s…
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Pressure to shut down Louisiana detention center mounts with release of reported abuses
Tags Share Reckon Media highlights a new report co-authored by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights that documents years of abuse and torture at Winn Correctional Center in Lousiana. Staff attorney Sarah Decker comments on Winn’s history of human rights violations, including abusive use of solitary confinement. “We very frequently see ICE weaponizing solitary confinement,” she…
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Citing history of alleged abuse, groups call on ICE to end contract at former La. prison
Tags Share Speaking with Verite News, our staff attorney Sarah Decker calls on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to shut down Winn Correctional Center, a Louisiana ICE detention center with a long history of violence, abuse and negligence.
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Preocupante suspensión de audiencia: Persisten dilaciones en el caso de criminalización del periodista comunitario Carlos Choc en Guatemala
Tags Share El Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos (CALDH), Protection International, Artículo 19, Freedom House, Free Press Unlimited, Reporteros Sin Fronteras y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, expresamos nuestra preocupación por el aplazamiento de la audiencia programada para el pasado jueves 7 de diciembre de 2023, por el Juez Fabián De León…
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Bangladesh: Urgent Call to Safeguard Human Rights and Democracy Ahead of January Elections
Tags Share The undersigned organizations express our deep concern about Bangladesh’s current human rights situation and closure of civic space as the country heads toward national elections on 7 January 2024. Since late October 2023, following the rallies and demonstrations co-organized by the political opposition, the ruling party of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Awami…
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Worrying suspension of hearing: Delays persist in the criminalization of community journalist Carlos Choc in Guatemala
Tags Share The Center for Legal Action on Human Rights (CALDH), Protection International, Article 19, Freedom House, Free Press Unlimited, Reporters Without Borders, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, we express our concern at the regrettable postponement of the hearing scheduled for the past Thursday December 7, 2023, by Judge Fabián De León Pérez, of…
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New York Times: Court May Force Honduras to Better Protect Trans People
Tags Share Outraged by the long-ignored murder of trans activist Vicky Hernández, RFK Human Rights and Red Lésbica Cattrachas have brought her case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights demanding the state of Honduras be held accountable. It is the first time the Inter-American Court will rule on whether governments have done enough to…
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Violence against inmates
Tags Share Writing in The New York Times, our VP of U.S. Advocacy & Litigation Anthony Enriquez comments on the rising levels of violence against prison inmates – including those held in pretrial detention.
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