Our Voices
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The Right to Protest: Webinar examines Global Reflections on the ACHPR Decision in the WOZA v. Zimbabwe Case
Tags Share Across the world, authoritarian regimes have limited full enjoyment of the right to protest. These governments make it difficult to organize protests, create disproportionate responsibilities for protest organizers, and essentially criminalize protests. It’s that difficult reality examined Wednesday, particularly in light of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’s recent decision, during…
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Protecting Immigrants’ Constitutional Right to Freedom from Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Immigrants have a constitutional right to be free from arbitrary detention according to a new federal court ruling secured by the RFK Human Rights U.S. Advocacy and Litigation team. Staff attorney Sarah Decker represents Mr. Yvesni Cenesca, a man from Haiti fighting deportation while locked up for the past 3 years in an…
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Q&A and Analysis: WOZA V. Zimbabwe
Tags Share In November 2022, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a positive decision in Communication 446/13 between Jennifer Williams, Magodonga Mahlangu, and Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and the Republic of Zimbabwe. Finding that the government of Zimbabwe violated the Complainants’ rights to freedom of association, assembly, and expression and their…
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Chicago Tribune: The Families of Those Killed by Police Seek a Path to Justice Through International Law
Tags Share “She called and let me know that she wasn’t coming home that night. I didn’t know that she meant that she was going to be gone forever,” Martinez Sutton tearfully testified in 2015 about the killing of his sister Rekia Boyd by an off-duty police officer. Eight years later, he and his family…
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The Cases of Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd
Tags Share In 2012, Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old Black woman, was killed by an off-duty police officer in Chicago, IL. In 2014, Black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO. To this day, their killers have never been held accountable. Now, on the 9-year anniversary of Micheal Brown’s…
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Families of Mike Brown, Rekia Boyd Reach Global Stage of Yearslong Human Rights Battle
Tags Share Earlier this summer, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights worked with the families of Mike Brown and Rekia Boyd to file a merit brief with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The brief is the latest effort for accountability and justice for the Brown and Boyd families following their loved ones’ deaths at the…
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Bangladesh: End Political Prosecution of Rights Leaders
Tags Share The Bangladesh authorities should cease their continued criminalization and harassment of Bangladesh human rights group, Odhikar, 21 human rights groups said today. Authorities should drop politically-motivated charges against Odhikar’s leaders, Adilur Rahman Khan and ASM Nasiruddin Elan. On August 10, 2013, Khan, secretary of Odhikar and a prominent human rights activist, was arbitrarily…
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The World Central Kitchen: Hope Through Food
Tags Share The World Central Kitchen is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing meals to regions affected by humanitarian, climate, and community crises. Founded by chef José Andres, the organization was created as a response to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake. Since then, the World Central Kitchen has responded to crises all over the world,…
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Plea For A New Int’l Tribunal For Russia’s Crime Of Aggression
Tags Share By Olga Kostina The International Bar Association — the world’s leading organization for international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies — adopted a resolution in late May condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urging United Nations member states to support the creation of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute leaders of…
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RFK Human Rights celebrates one-year anniversary of Rapid Defense Network
Tags Share On July 19 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) celebrated the one-year anniversary of the integration of Rapid Defense Network (RDN) and its co-founder, Sarah Gillman, into the RFKHR family. Gillman now serves as RFKHR’s Director of Strategic U.S. Litigation. Her extensive experience in litigating for immigrants’ rights is a cornerstone of the…
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RFKHR Book Club Hosts Dr. Peniel Joseph, Author of “The Third Reconstruction”
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ virtual Book Club on July 18 focused on stories and storytelling – the stories that shape our understanding of the past and our hope for the future. “The most powerful aspect of any society is storytelling,” said Dr. Peniel Joseph, historian, professor, and the recipient of RFKHR’s 2023…
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Louisiana ICE facility staff response to detainee’s seizure captured in audio recording
Tags Share Speaking with New Orleans Public Radio, staff attorney Sarah Decker details a recent instance of medical neglect at a Louisiana ICE detention center.
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