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Rights for Dominican Women Regress to the 19th Century
Tags Share In a recent decision, the Dominican Republic’s highest court struck down protections that allowed women to have an abortion in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed, or where continuing the pregnancy places the woman’s life in danger. The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision reinstates a total ban…
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Dominican Republic Must Restore Citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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Detention of Egyptian Human Rights Defender Hossam Bahgat
Tags Share (November 10, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses alarm at the temporary detention and attempted intimidation of Egyptian human rights defender and investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat. Hossam Bahgat, founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)—one of the country’s preeminent civil society organizations—was ordered detained by the military…
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Enough is Enough in Horribly Repressive Eritrea
Tags Share This week, Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak spent his fourteenth consecutive birthday in prison. Isaak was arrested back in 2001, along with twenty others, for signing an open letter critical of the government in Asmara. These individuals were labeled as “spies” and enemies of the state simply for demanding democratic reforms in their country.…
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Labor Department Allows Pension Funds to Factor ESG Into Investments
Tags Share (October 22, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Calling it “a move that will ignite billions in smarter long term investing,” Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights praised the Department of Labor for eliminating certain restrictions on ERISA fiduciaries that kept pension funds from factoring human rights as well as environmental sustainability and good governance into…
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Angola’s Escalating Repression Should Prompt American Action
Tags Share After almost four decades in power, Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, aged 73, continues to smash dissent with the keenly energetic fists of a much younger man. Indeed, Angola’s political climate has only become more toxic and paranoid over the course of 2015. We have witnessed the legal persecution of a journalist…
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UN: Unprecedented Concluding Observations on Western Sahara
Tags Share (October 20, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights commends the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) for its Concluding Observations to Morocco with regards to Western Sahara. In September 2015, the CESCR reviewed the Kingdom of Morocco’s compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and…
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Executing People With Intellectual Disabilities is Clear Violation of International Human Rights Law
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights calls on Virginia Governor McAuliffe to stay the execution of Alfredo Rolando Prieto.
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Unresolved Violations of the Right to Nationality for Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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Colombia: Protecting Human Rights Defenders From Harassment
The Colombian government has a duty to stop this pattern of violence and persecution against human rights defenders.
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Supreme Court Affirms Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | June 26, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcomes today’s historic Supreme Court Decision affirming a Constitutional right to same-sex marriage. In a 5-4 ruling in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court found that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right to same-sex marriage and requires…
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Solitary Confinement of Activist Thulani Maseko
Tags Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 19, 2015 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the continued mistreatment of human rights defender Thulani Maseko in Swaziland, who was today moved to solitary confinement and denied visitors, including from his lawyer, after the publication of a prison letter, marking the one-year anniversary of…
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