Our Voices
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Human Rights Award ‘21 honors Guerline Jozef, issues Call to Action to stop Title 42
Tags Share I’m honored to be joined here today with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award laureate Wyclef Jean. The last time we were together in person, we were walking through one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Port-au Prince, where Wyclef was helping young men transform their lives. I…
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RFK Human Rights and Amnesty International USA Call on the Biden Administration and UN Security Council to Renew Minurso and Add Critical Human Rights Monitoring
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Amnesty International USA jointly call on the United Nations Security Council to renew the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and for the Biden administration—representing the U.S. as the mandate’s penholder—to ensure the inclusion of a human rights monitoring component. Such…
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19 Ugandan LGBTQ+ detainees obtain favorable opinion from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Children of the Sun Foundation (COSF), Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Human Rights) welcome the opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) declaring the detention of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans arbitrary under international law. On March 29,…
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RFK Human Rights wants employers to safeguard ‘workplace dignity’
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights launched a new Workplace Dignity initiative on Oct. 6 to advise employers on how their employees are valued and treated at work.
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Justice in Guatemala is at Risk
Tags Share On September 28 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined other human rights organizations in a thematic hearing before the Inter American Commission of Human Rights, to express our profound concern for the sustained harassment faced by judges and prosecutors in Guatemala fighting against corruption, and grave human rights violations in the country.…
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Biden Promised to End the Trump-Era Immigration Policy. On the Ground, It’s More of the Same
Roughly 2,000 Black migrants in Del Rio, Texas, were sent back to Haiti in one of the largest mass expulsions in recent U.S. history.
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Honduras, the World is Watching
Our case before the Inter-American Court made clear that Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries for trans people. We will not rest until the state makes structural changes to prevent and combat this violence.
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An Unlikely Path to “Justice Rising”
Author Patricia Sullivan discusses her new book on Robert F. Kennedy.
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Kerry Kennedy: Bearing Witness to the Human Rights Abuses in Del Rio
We should all be appalled by the conditions facing our Haitian sisters and brothers, and other Black migrants at the U.S. southern border.
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Humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina Wrongfully Convicted
Rusesabagina’s ordeal is sadly emblematic of the worrying state of civic space in Rwanda.
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New Speak Truth to Power Initiative Could Set Tone, Help Heal Divided Nation
Our partnership with Bangor High School incorporates human rights education into the school’s practices and culture to create an inclusive, dignity-driven learning environment.
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