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Newsweek: ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, alongside the ACLU of Louisiana and the National Immigration Project, recently filed multiple complaints exposing systemic abuse against immigrants at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.
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CNN: Kerry Kennedy on Erin Burnett OutFront
Our president Kerry Kennedy recently spoke with CNN anchor Erin Burnett about comedian Stephen Colbert’s selection as a 2025 Ripple of Hope award laureate.
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USA Today: Stephen Colbert joins former presidents in receiving major honor after CBS cancellation
Stephen Colbert will receive the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award for using humor to challenge injustice and promote human rights.
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TheWrap: Stephen Colbert to Receive Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights Center
Stephen Colbert will be honored with the Robert K. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award this December.
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WIRED: DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly uncovered government data reveals that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been quietly collecting DNA samples from nearly 2,000 U.S. citizens, including minors, and funneling them into the FBI’s criminal DNA database, CODIS
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Save the International Criminal Court and the Rule of Law
Tags Share Reliable sources indicate that the United States (US) plans to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution in the coming weeks. This follows a series of designations, first against the ICC Prosecutor, Deputy Prosecutors, judges, Palestinian NGOs, and also the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory. Now is the
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RFKHR Book Club Discusses Jonathan Blitzer’s Everyone Who is Gone is Here
Tags Share On August 21st, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted its most recent book club with author and journalist Jonathan Blitzer to discuss his Robert F. Kennedy Book Award-winning debut. Everyone Who is Gone is Here tells the epic story of the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, delving into the
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News 15 (KADN): Civil rights groups blame private contractor after sexual abuse accusations at Basile ICE facility
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights recently filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging sexual abuse at an ICE detention center in Basile, Louisiana.
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The Buffalo News: Human rights groups sue Trump administration over arrest of Cuban citizen in Buffalo
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and our partners have filed a lawsuit on behalf of J.M.A., a Cuban asylum seeker wrongfully detained in a New York ICE facility.
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CNN en Español: Disappearances in Venezuela are not “irregularities” but a “government strategy to show power,” report says
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights recently published a new report outlining patterns of political repression in Venezuela following the most recent election cycles.
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ECOWAS Court Petition highlights the pervasive challenges faced by women journalists in West Africa
Tags Share Women in the Media Sierra Leone (WIMSAL) and RFK Human Rights have submitted a petition to the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on behalf of Umu Thoronka, a Sierra Leonean journalist who was unlawfully dismissed from her position at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC)
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Verite News: Complaints allege sexual and physical abuse at Basile ICE facility
Current and former detainees at a Louisiana ICE detention center have filed civil rights complaints through Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and its partners, accusing prison officers and ICE employees of repeated sexual harassment, abuse, forced labor, and neglect of urgent medical care.
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