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Exclusive: COVID Threat Triggers Jail Bailouts
Tags Share As jails prove to be dangerous hot spots for the coronavirus, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has partnered with community bail funds and local organizers across the country, including Just City in Memphis, Tennessee, to free as many people from pretrial detention while we could still save lives. For Josh Spickler, executive director…
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Escalating Attacks on Malawian Civil Society Leaders
Tags Share Ahead of Malawi’s upcoming general election rerun on May 19, government authorities have escalated their attacks on civic space, homing in on human rights defenders Gift Trapence, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, and Timothy Mtambo—leaders of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC)—for organizing national protests to advocate for electoral justice and free elections. “We are…
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Nigeria Aims to Silence Dissent With Charges Against Prominent Journalist
Tags Share After months in prison and a prolonged legal fight, prominent Nigerian journalist and client of RFK Human Rights, Omoyele Sowore, is now facing charges of treason. Sowore had been arbitrarily arrested and detained after organizing an event, Revolution Now, to protest corruption and unfair elections. His wife, Opeyemi Sowore told VOA News that…
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Human Rights Groups Sue Pompeo to Disband State Department Commission
Tags Share RFK Human Rights, in partnership with Democracy Forward, has brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration to terminate its unlawful Commission on Unalienable Rights. Read the full article
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Protecting Civic Space: The Case of Omoyele Sowore
Tags Share New Jersey journalist and human rights activist Omoyele “Yele” Sowore was violently detained in his native Nigeria in August 2019 after his online publication, Sahara Reporters, called for a nationwide protest of the country’s president. He’s been unlawfully imprisoned for months on trumped up charges of cyberstalking and treason, and potentially faces life…
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Lack of Diversity, Transparency Across Charitable Foundations
With public accountability comes a greater commitment to human rights and social equity in the investment process.
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Rechazamos la aprobación del Decreto que limita el trabajo de las ONGs en Guatemala
Las Ong Firmantes Exhortamos Al Presidente De La República De Guatemala a Vetar El Decreto No. 04-2020 Que Introduce Reformas a La Ley De Ongs Que Afectan La Libertad De Asociación, Libertad De Expresión Y Restringe El Espacio Cívico
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Myanmar: Lift Internet Restrictions in Rakhine and Chin States
Tags Share We, the 29 undersigned organizations, call on the Government of Myanmar to immediately lift restrictions on mobile internet communications in eight townships in Rakhine State and one township in Chin State. We are particularly concerned by the Government of Myanmar’s recent reinstatement of restrictions on mobile internet access in five townships on February…
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Most Employers Say They Treat Workers With Dignity, but Employees Disagree
Nearly four in five employers said they encourage employees to speak up, while only half of workers agreed.
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Tolerance Is Not Enough
Tags Share At a Speak Truth to Power event at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, RFK Human Rights’ Kerry Kennedy brought together former leaders of war-torn Yugoslavia and actor activists Katie Erbe (“Law and Order”) and Trevor Donovan (“90210”) to share personal stories about standing up for what they believe in. “Tolerance is very important, but…
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Young Activist’s Murder Spotlights ‘Femicides’ Epidemic in Mexico
Tags Share Long before the shooting death of women’s rights activist Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, human rights attorneys had noted the rising trend of “femicides” in the border city. The deaths and disappearances of women and girls in Juarez and in other parts of Mexico had once dominated international headlines.…
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ICJ Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya from Genocide
Tags Share (January 23, 2020 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomes a historic decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which, for the first time, orders Myanmar to protect the Rohingya people from genocide. The order for provisional measures recognized the “real and imminent risk” the Rohingya faced in the aftermath…
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