Our Voices
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What You Need to Know About Voting by Mail
Tags Share Trump has tried to make voting by mail an “issue,” even though he himself plans to vote that way, says Rated LGBT Radio. It’s not because mail-in ballots are problematic but rather an attempt to intimidate, suppress, and dissuade voters from participating in the election. Co-hosts Rob Watson and Brody Levesque spoke with…
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Don’t Whitewash History in Our Schools
Teaching the next generation about our country’s successes and shameful shortcomings is vital if we’re ever to learn from our past.
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Cuban Authorities Must Cease Harassment of UNPACU Activists
Tags Share In response to the uninterrupted acts of intimidation and violence committed in the last two months by Cuban authorities against members of the dissident organization Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU), its leader José Daniel Ferrer, and his family, more than 30 Cuban and international human rights organizations issued the following statement: We call…
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The Struggle Against Statelessness Continues
We urge the new Dominican government to restore the citizenship of denationalized Dominicans.
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Opposing U.S. Sanctions Against the International Criminal Court
Tags Share The undersigned organizations and individuals write to express grave concerns and unequivocally oppose the Trump administration’s use of the sanctions authority of the United States to attack the International Criminal Court (ICC), an independent judicial institution dedicated to combatting impunity for the gravest crimes known to humanity. Many of the undersigned spoke out…
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Organizaciones de las Américas demandamos respeto a la autonomía de la Comisión Interamericana
Tags Share Las organizaciones firmantes, usuarias del Sistema Interamericano de Protección de Derechos Humanos, expresamos nuestra profunda preocupación por la decisión anunciada por el Secretario General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) de no renovar el mandato del Secretario Ejecutivo de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH). Las organizaciones firmantes consideramos que…
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Undermining the IACHR’s Authority Puts Human Rights at Risk
Tags Share We, the signatory organizations, users of the Inter-American system of protection of human rights, express our profound concern regarding the decision announced by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) not to renew the mandate of the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). We consider that…
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Bangladesh: End Enforced Disappearances
Tags Share *Joint Statement by 12 human rights groups ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 2020 (Dhaka, August 28, 2020) – Bangladesh security forces and law-enforcement agencies continuously commit enforced disappearances with impunity, targeting journalists, activists, and government critics, 12 human rights groups said today ahead of the International Day…
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Renewed Calls to Protect Rohingya Refugees
On the third anniversary of the Rohingya genocide, RFK Human Rights and our partners call on the Myanmar government to protect this community from ongoing harm.
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Faces of Bail Reform
People directly affected by our wealth-based criminal legal system tell their stories.
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Access and Opportunity
Tags Share Social and economic devastation arising from the worst global public health crisis in a century coupled with outrage over prevalent systemic racism across America has led to increasing pressure across societal sectors to do better to embrace and reflect the diversity purportedly at the heart of American values. The political world saw this…
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Ongoing Efforts to Bring Omoyele Sowore Home
Tags Share Omoyele Sowore is a journalist and social activist who has been trapped in his native Nigeria in a bizarre diplomatic quarantine—confined to house arrest, facing bogus charges with little prospect of returning to his wife and children in New Jersey anytime soon. RFK Human Rights has been involved in a campaign for Sowore’s…
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