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We Urge Guatemala to Prioritize Armed Conflict Cases
Tags Share HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA LEER Guatemala City, San Jose, Utrecht and Washington D.C., April 4, 2018 In light of the recent death of the former dictator, Efraín Ríos Montt, the stagnancy and permeability of the Guatemalan judicial system has become evident. The search for justice for the genocide of the Maya-Ixil people has…
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Statement on the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons
Tags Share The world has watched in horror as Syrian civilians suffered the horrific effects of yet another chemical weapons attack. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins organizations and countries around the world in condemning the use of chemical weapons in this ongoing war. The fact that we are again discussing the use of chemical…
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Attack on Mozambique Human Rights Defender Raises New Concerns
Tags Share 3 April 2018 It is with sadness that the undersigned civil society organisations express deep concern about the attack on Mozambique human rights defender, Ericino de Salema, which took place in Maputo on 27th March 2018. Mr Salema, a journalist, a rights activist and political analyst was allegedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen in…
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Organizaciones Internacionales Instan a la Suprema Corte de México a Proteger la Independencia Judicial en Chihuahua
Tags Share La independencia de los poderes judiciales en México es fundamental para juzgar casos de corrupción y violaciones a derechos humanos. El próximo lunes 02 de marzo, el pleno de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) resolverá dos controversias constitucionales que pueden afectar de forma directa la estabilidad e independencia judicial…
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Bangladesh: Civil Society Decries Mass Arrests Amid Worsening Human Rights Situation
Tags Share 22 March 2018: The Solidarity Group for Bangladesh today decries the mass arrests of opposition supporters that have taken place in Bangladesh over the past two months, and calls on the government to release all those who have been detained and to undertake urgent measures to ensure the respect for fundamental human rights.…
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IACHR Holds Hearing on Mexico’s New Internal Security Lawv
Tags Share PARA ESPAÑOL, HAGA CLIC AQUÍ Washington, D.C. / New York City / Stuttgart / Geneva, March 20, 2018 – The International Observatory on Human Rights in Mexico remains deeply concerned about the new Internal Security Law and the Mexican Government’s refusal to accept the Law’s implications. The International Observatory urges the Inter-American Commission…
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RFK Human Rights Continues to Monitor Bahamian Detention Center
Tags Share In January, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy published “For immigrants trapped in The Bahamas, a paradise lost” in the Huffington Post after spending two days interviewing victims and human rights defenders in Nassau. She shed light on the inhumane conditions 700+ detainees experienced at Carmichael immigrant detention center, the country’s…
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Mexican Congress Should Reject Law Normalizing Armed Forces in Public Security Tasks
Tags Share WASHINGTON, November 21, 2017 –– In recent days, the Mexican Congress has rushed discussions about the Law on Internal Security (Ley de Seguridad Interior, LSI) that would normalize the participation of Mexico’s armed forces in public security tasks. In the media and in public spaces, legislators from various political parties have insisted on…
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Bahamas Migration Policy Causes Concern Among Human Rights Groups
RFK Human Rights and our partners have urged the Bahamian authorities to stop its discriminatory migration policies.
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RFK Human Rights Joins Call for Tanzania to Release Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins with more than one hundred organizations and individuals in urgently calling for the Government of Tanzania to release and drop all charges against 13 lawyers and human rights defenders who were detained on October 20, 2017, after law enforcement agents previously raided a meeting they were attending…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Guatemalan President Decision’s on CICIG
Tags Share (August 28, 2017 | Washington, D.C.) The civil society organizations which join this statement condemn in the strongest possible terms the decision by the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, to declare Ivan Velasquez “persona non grata” and order his immediate expulsion from the country. Velasquez is the Commissioner of CICIG, the International Commission…
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Against a ‘Military Option’ in Venezuela
Attempts to resolve the grave situation currently experienced by Venezuela cannot resort to violence.
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