Our Voices
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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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Make Black and Brown Queer Votes Matter
RFK Young Leaders are empowering first-time voters of color to make their ballots count.
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International Criminal Court’s Work Blunted by Petty Campaign
Tags Share Human rights advocate Kerry Kennedy describes how US state department sanctions are hampering the ICC’s efforts to fight atrocities across the globe Your report (Human rights lawyers sue the Trump administration for ‘silencing’ them, 1 October) sheds much-needed light on an unprecedented effort to undermine and dismantle global efforts to fight impunity. Carrying…
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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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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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