Our Voices
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U.S. Advocates Fear Creation of a Hierarchy of Human Rights
Tags Share As the Trump administration tries to further limit the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens, advocates are particularly concerned by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s controversial Commission on Unalienable Rights, which would relegate some rights, including marriage equality and abortion, to the status of “political controversies” or “preferences.” While a new administration could disregard…
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Democracy Is at Stake in Nigeria and Demands Action
We urge our leaders in Washington to wake up, take action, and stand with #EndSARS protesters while we can still make a difference.
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Our Civic Duties Don’t End On Election Day
We must push our ideas of civic responsibility past the ballot by remaining informed and supporting marginalized groups.
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Bangladesh: Stop Intimidating Activists, Victims’ Families
Tags Share The Bangladesh authorities should end the ongoing harassment and threats against activists, human rights defenders, and their families by law enforcement and intelligence agencies, four human rights groups said today. Amnesty International, Asian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemned the government’s attacks on those exercising their…
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Teen Who Spent 40 Days in Adult Prison Savors Second Chance
Tags Share In 2018, RFK Human Rights bailed out 16-year-old Rosalyn “Bird” Holmes from adult prison. Now, her charges have finally been dropped and she has a clean slate. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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Groups Unite to Post Millions of Dollars in Bonds to Free Immigrants
Tags Share For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network, Detention Watch Network, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, have begun posting $3 million in bond to…
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‘We Are Being Squeezed,’ says Prize-Winning Indigenous Activist
Tags Share Alessandra Munduruku, a leader of Brazil’s Munduruku indigenous community, has seen her home broken into and been threatened over her work defending her people and their Amazon land from illegal miners and loggers, hydropower plants, and other threats. On Thursday, the 36-year-old received the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for “her work defending…
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Brazilian Indigenous Leader Wins Robert Kennedy Human Rights Award
Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku was named the winner of the 2020 RFK Human Rights Award for her work defending the rights, ancestral lands, and culture of indigenous people in Brazil. Read the full article here. Module type not found: newsArticles
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We Cannot Condone the Myanmar Government’s Lies
Tags Share Of course, the details never added up. But now, with recent confessions from two Myanmar Army soldiers, the truth hangs in the open air, exposing the blatant lies that government officials have told about their genocide against the Rohingya. That truth was already clear to the dozen of us—human rights lawyers, activists, documentarians,…
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RFK Human Rights Calls for Californians to Oppose Prop 25
The injustice of money bail is real but Prop 25 isn’t the answer. Californians, please vote NO on Prop 25.
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Deep Concern as Cuban Government Gains Seat on UN Human Rights Council
Tags Share In response to Cuba’s election to a fifth term on the Human Rights Council, 85 Cuban and international human rights and freedom-of-expression organizations, in conjunction with independent media outlets, released the following statement: We are deeply concerned about the decision to grant Cuba a new opportunity to have a seat on the Human…
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