Our Voices
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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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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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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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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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Atlas of AI: Examining the human and environmental costs of artificial intelligence
Tags Share According to author and scholar Kate Crawford, the term “artificial intelligence” is a misnomer. “AI is neither artificial nor intelligent,” Crawford said. “[There is an] enormous environmental footprint – the minerals, the energy, the water – that drives AI. This is the opposite of artificiality. It’s profound materiality.” During Robert F. Kennedy Human…
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Over 100K sign tipped wage ballot petition
Tags Share The Boston Herald notes Kerry Kennedy’s involvement in a new ballot initiative that seeks to provide a standard minimum wage for tipped workers. Read the full article for more information about the One Fair Wage campaign.
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Full prisons and false charges: Bangladesh opposition faces pre-election crackdown
Tags Share In conversation with The Guardian, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens comments on Bangladesh’s pre-election crackdown on opposition leaders, supporters and activists – almost 10,000 of whom have been arrested after protests broke out against the ruling government.
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El Foro Penal y Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR) piden a la Honorable Sala de Apelaciones de la Corte Penal Internacional (CPI) que confirme la decisión de la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I de reanudar las investigaciones sobre crímenes de lesa
Tags Share En una histórica audiencia de dos días, la Sala de Apelaciones de la CPI llevó a cabo una revisión exhaustiva de la apelación del Estado de Venezuela contra la Decisión de la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I sobre la reanudación de las investigaciones por parte de la Fiscalía. Esta audiencia marcó la primera…
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