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International organizations demand publicity and announce observation of Erika Aifán’s deposition hearing before the investigating judge
Tags Share Guatemala City, Geneva and Washington D.C. March 3, 2022 Next Friday, March 4, a hearing will be held to hear the statement of Judge Erika Aifán Dávila, before the investigating judge Roaldo Isaías Chávez Pérez. This proceeding is part of the antejuicio procedure promoted by the Attorney General’s Office against her, with the…
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Renewing our commitment to civil rights and voting rights
Tags Share By Kerry Kennedy and Martin Luther King III As violence and racism – evidenced by the bomb threats received last month at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country – continue unabated, our frustration and anger at the continued ugliness of the “other America” King described plaguing Black and Brown Americans has…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns invasion and bombardment of Ukraine, urges action
Tags Share Washington, D.C.—Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, together with our international affiliates, strongly condemns Russia’s unprovoked invasion and bombardment of Ukraine, resulting in growing numbers of human casualties and a burgeoning humanitarian crisis. “As a human rights organization committed to promoting peace, protecting civic space, and holding governments accountable, we call for the immediate…
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Zimbabwe Must Withdraw the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill
Tags Share March 2, 2022 Zimbabwean authorities should immediately withdraw the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill, which was gazetted on 5 November 2021 and announced in Parliament earlier this month. Public hearings on the PVO Amendment Bill have begun this week and are ongoing. If passed into law, the PVO Amendment would provide the…
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Statement by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy on the Supreme Court Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson
Tags Share New York – Ketanji Brown Jackson could be the first former public defender and Black woman to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. As a human rights organization dedicated to a more just and equal world, we welcome the expanded perspectives that greater professional and personal diversity can bring to the Court. However,…
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Kerry Kennedy and Kateryna Yushchenko: An appeal to Ukrainian Americans: Speak truth to power
Tags Share For many Americans, the situation in Ukraine may seem as distant as memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the threat of a Cold War knocks at our doors once again, bringing reminders of our childhoods in the 1960s, when schools across the country practiced duck and cover drills and families…
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Alabama the frontline of a national movement for investors to take stance and no longer invest in the carceral state
One of sixteen states to outline their plans to use American Rescue Plan funds for prison construction or expansion, Alabama has become the frontline of a national movement for investors to take a firm stance that they will no longer invest in the carceral state.
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Calls on the Biden Administration to Immediately Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon
Tags Share Today, on the National Black Immigrant Advocacy Day of Action, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights stands alongside our partners at Cameroon Advocacy Network (CAN) to urge President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to immediately designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon. “The Biden…
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Legal autocracies under the guise of “democracies”
From the rise of recent autocracies, from Hungary to Brazil; to the growing challenge of legitimacy confronting international institutions; and even to a failed insurrection at the steps of the U.S. Capitol; we are witnessing a true decline of democracy that is tied to the inherent malleability of law.
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United Nations inquiry finds that Egyptian authorities arbitrarily detained Ahmed Samir Santawy
Tags Share The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome the favorable opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finding the Egyptian government arbitrarily detained our client Ahmed Samir Santawy in violation of international human rights law. The Working Group held that the government arbitrarily…
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Organizaciones Internacionales Rechazamos Criminalización del Juez Pablo Xitumul y Denunciamos la Persecución de Operadores de Justicia en Guatemala
Tags Share Ciudad de Guatemala, Ginebra y Washington D.C 10 de febrero de 2022 Ayer, 09 de febrero, la Corte Suprema de Justicia decidió declarar con lugar la solicitud de antejuicio interpuesta contra el juez Pablo Xitumul de Paz, juez del tribunal primero de sentencia penal, narcoactividad y de delitos contra el ambiente, con competencia…
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International Organizations Reject the Criminalization of Judge Pablo Xitumul and Denounce the Persecution of Justice Operators in Guatemala
Tags Share Guatemala City, Geneva and Washington D.C. February 10, 2022 On February 9, 2022, the Supreme Court of Justice declared admissible the request to strip Judge Pablo Xitumul de Paz of his judicial immunity, leaving him vulnerable to impeachment. Pablo Xitumul de Paz is the judge of the First Court of Criminal Sentencing, Drug…
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