Our Voices
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Mexico: Ongoing Defamation Attacks in the Media
Tags Share Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the legal…
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House Passes North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act
Tags Share (January 13, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights praised the House of Representatives for passing the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016 with overwhelming bipartisan support, 418 – 2. Among other provisions, the bill will further limit North Korea’s access to the international financial system, target individuals involved in…
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Mexico Must Advance Investigation Into 43 Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students
Tags Share On the night of September 26, 2014, students in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero were violently attacked by local police; 43 students were detained and disappeared. The case of the forcibly disappeared students of Ayotzinapa is a painful example of the human rights crisis facing Mexico and has prompted international and country-wide indignation.…
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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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